Yes, just as we all somehow managed to move on with our lives after that traumatic Eurosong Logo incident – surprise, surprise – here’s another strange fruit from the same tree.
In December this year, EESTEC LC Belgrade will be hosting the ECM 07, an annual event that gathers chairpersons from all the European LCs.
EESTEC is short for Electrical Engineering STudents European assoCiation. No, that ’C’ in the end is not even a bit bizzare, trust me.
LC is a Local Committee
This is how the EESTECers themselves define the ECM:
ECM (EESTEC Chairpersons’ Meeting)
ECM is a meeting where the chairpersons of all Local Committees take part in order to be trained, share experiences and contribute to the future development of EESTEC. ECM lasts for five days, consisting of working sessions, simulations and discussions on topics concerning how to run a Local Committee. There are discussions about organizing events and cooperation on the international level. The meeting has around 50 participants.
And this is what they thought would be an über-cool logo for such an occasion:
Yes, that’s a trumpet you see. On a logo designed for a meeting of european students of ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, yes.
Now, although I could go on about this for hours, my opinion on this matter is rather irrelevant so I will reduce it to this single sentence: There’s something very wrong with us.
Here, I would most of all like to hear the opinions & impressions of people from the Outside World, the ones who are supposed to be the primary consumers of this po-mo neodadaistic work of art.
Shoot, please.
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Well, you’re right, I suppose. The trumpet has very little to do with electrical engineering. Though, knowing the organisations, like Boards of European Students of Technology and similiar, a party every night is always assumed, combine that with some turbofolk, and I think we’ve logically concluded: “why trumpet?”. Ain’t that so?
This logo is actually pretty good, only, you are right, it has nothing to do with any sort of engineering… unless we are mistakining – maybe it’s not a trumpet but a socket (yellow one, shaped like a trumpet and capable of producing trumpet-like sounds)
In the big picture, this is such a minor and petty issue. Let’s leave people alone. If they want a trumpet in their logo, what’s it to you?
Regarding “there’s something very wrong with us,” I think the most annoying thing about some Serbs (or, rather, some people, because this is not a trait unique to Serbs by any means) is that they seem to always have to comment on every little thing someone else does.
“Outside world,” indeed.
Maybe a trumpet is easier to draw than Tesla.
Uhm… let me think… Ok, the trumpet had to be “engineered” too,in a way, right? So, there’s the connection. On top of that, these sorts of manifestations do tend to have a lot to do with partying. I like the logo. I wouldn’t read too much into this.
“Regarding “there’s something very wrong with us,” I think the most annoying thing about some Serbs (or, rather, some people, because this is not a trait unique to Serbs by any means) is that they seem to always have to comment on every little thing someone else does.”
Agree, although I do think that our history (uniforms, all looking alike, behaving alike, collective, to stand out is a sin unless you’re pre-approved to stand out etc) reinforced, more than some other histories, that habit of passing judgment on everyone and everything that dared to be different or special. It carried over to simply passing judgment in general. So, I do think that in our culture commenting on others or what they do is more prominent than some other places. Which wouldn’t be all that bad, if only we started making some effort to make positive comments, too. So much negativity, it’s just not healthy.