I would like to ask everyone involved in this argument to please sheath your weapons and lets see if we can compromise.
First, Michael is a talented designer and I’m personally appreciative of the time he is donating to the space for this design. But, there is a vocal group of people that have issue with the design and the deal with it response from Michael is only escalating the Bullying tactics of Lisa and Brooks. I don’t want Michael to step down from PR or have some PR coup launched against him (like what happened to me when I was head of PR). He is more than qualified for the job, and as Lisa is one of the social media runners for DMS we should try and mend this fence.
My suggestion for a middle ground solution is the we make the Word Mark from the Logo our official logo and we design a set of variations to the hex image to allow for more personalized feel. Example a soldering iron for electronics, a brush for arts, a saw blade for wood shop, a flipper for vector, a laser for laser, a torch flame for metal shot, an end mill for machine shop. just make them all fit within the shape and try to make them all have the same feel.
So in single committee DMS branding you do the word mark with your committee’s Hex logo. With DMS general branding I would suggest we emphasize the word mark and possibly use the Hex logos as section dots where we describe the different tools and areas of DMS. Or add a set of the hex logos that would work for the event smaller under the logo, I’m thinking five at most and would play off the idea of a 5 star rating, Or possibly, make a Hex logo From the Hex logos and have it to the left of the word mark. But, this is very size speciffic and if the size of the logo had to be small I would suggest we just go back to the word mark.
Now for the feelings. It sucks doing critiques or modification as a designer. You get attached to your ideas and art. Also, without the comforting embrace of being able to charge for your work it makes it really easy to tell everyone to go screw themselves and that they can either take what I have made or nothing at all. So please be kind or we may loose the efforts of another designer.