<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 3:20 AM Richard A. O'Keefe <<a href="mailto:ok@cs.otago.ac.nz">ok@cs.otago.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My University is about to go through a process of redesigning its logo.<br>
I'm interested in whether having a logo, a "brand", actually matters<br>
for a University. Obviously it does for soap, tinned soup, and so on.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From personal experience, I have read many papers from different universities, but for most of them, I don't know what their logomark or logotype looks like. I don't even know if they have one.<br><br></div><div>But one has to be aware that an individual is not people. A university needs branding in general because they do things in addition to research. For a "mere human", the brand is probably the association one has with a university more than their faculty. In short: make sure you don't fall for selection bias.<br></div></div></div>