The first annual recreational TOUR DE NEWTON is being planned as part of Newton Walk/Bike week or this coming October. The Tour de Newton will be a leisurely 20+ mile route around the city that will pass through each of the village centers. You’ll ride the circuit from your home village, around the city and back again. At each village center you’ll pick up a unique village badge. By the end of the ride you’ll have the complete set of village badges.
We’d like each of these badges to be a unique iconic symbol of the village. We fully expect that both the badges themselves and especially the graphic village icons to have a life long beyond the Tour de Newton. We’re recruiting people across the city to take a stab at designing the symbol for your village. Here’s the details.
* The badges will be 1 inch round. The symbol should be designed with that size in mind.
* Should be black on white.
* Aim for simple, bold rather than fine details. Text is OK but should be primarily iconic
* If you village already has a recognized symbol, feel free to rework it into a one inch round
* The more you tap into some unique attribute of your village the better.
* Finished, camera ready designs are definitely preferable and will be given precedence. We’ll also accept rough sketches though if you don’t have the technical ability to do a finished design.
* You don’t have to be a professional graphic designer to take a shot at this. The more ideas and submissions the better. In the event of multiple submissions, the Newton Walk/Bike committee will have the sole discretion of picking which design will be used.
Attention Village14’ers – Newton’s 14th virtual village will also be part of this event so we will also need a badge to represent Village 14
Please pass this along to everyone in your village that might want to take a crack at it. All submissions should be sent to [email protected] or via mail to Jerry Reilly, 12 Spring St, Newton Upper Falls 02464
Excellent!
That’s cool- will have to think on Newton Corner for a bit.
Meantime, a couple of snarky suggestions:
– A pedestrian getting run down by an Audi (why an Audi? it always seems to be an Audi running the lights there, don’t ask me why) in the Circle of Death
– The patch actually is split in two pieces, representing the Turnpike. West Newton and possible Newtonville could consider that too
Sorry, a little punchy on a Friday 🙂
this is great.. when will more information be provided on this event?
Bip Roberts – the planning is just starting. We’ll be occasionally sharing info as the plans evolve over the summer and then hope to really publicize it in the month before the event.
In the meantime, we could use all the help we can get. If you might like to volunteer in any one of a dozen capacities – send me an email at [email protected]
Here’s the first submission for a Village 14 badge from Jim Lerner. Jim seems to be up on his chemistry but needs a refresher course on his geometric shapes – hint: the circle is the round one 😉
Great idea. Especially like Doug Haslam’s badge suggestion related to the German automobile.
Great idea. It gets me thinking that while Needham Street is not considered a village, it is out of sight out of mind as a location in the City that we are proud of. Granted, there is a lot of work to do to beautify the area, make it walkable and bikable and it is a State owned roadway, but until we begin including it in the conversation, it will remain an outlier and excluded from the conversation. People can disagree, but I see opportunity here. Not just as a commercial center, but also as a gathering spot. Hopeful case in point will be the greenway. Maybe I’ll develop a badge and apply for unofficial villageship.
Designing the badge is the first step on the way to needham st becoming newton’s 15th village.
This is great ! As President of the Chestnut Hill Association I will have to get our members working on our “village identity”. Gee how do we draw two malls, a college, a marathon course and Rt 9 in a 1 inch badge! Quite the graphic design challenge.