{"id":155,"date":"2007-05-02T19:20:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2007-05-02T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T19:20:21","slug":"help-choose-a-brand-to-promote-science-to-young-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"Help choose a brand to promote science to young people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/?p=144\">mentioned &#8216;<strong>v<\/strong>&#8216; before<\/a> &#8211; the independent charity that took over the running of Millennium Volunteers project from DfES (and therefore now one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solentyouthaction.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"solent youth action\">our<\/a> biggest funders). I&#8217;ve also mentioned that I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the &#8216;v&#8217; brand &#8211; aside from being almost impossible to search for, they tend to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vinspired.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"a v website\">stick &#8216;v&#8217; before everything<\/a> which I find a little clunky. <\/p>\n<p>The branding was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lovecreative.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Love Creative<\/a> &#8211; a design agency in Manchester. (<em>v is currently on page 22 of their portfolio<\/em>). They&#8217;ve done a lot of other high profile work, including work for Red Nose Day, Nike and Umbro. <\/p>\n<p>I mention them because I notice that they&#8217;re doing another bit of work, this time for the Science Council, developing a website for young people to promote science education. They&#8217;ve come up with six possible names:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>i can morph<\/li>\n<li>we go boing<\/li>\n<li>beep<\/li>\n<li>made from science<\/li>\n<li>bleep<\/li>\n<li>?f<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They&#8217;re currently running a vote at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencevote.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.sciencevote.co.uk<\/a> to help choose the name. <\/p>\n<p>My personal favourite is &#8220;Made from science&#8221;, but if you want to have your say in the branding used to help encourage the next generation of scientists, then go vote now! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8216;v&#8216; before &#8211; the independent charity that took over the running of Millennium Volunteers project from DfES (and therefore now one of our biggest funders). I&#8217;ve also mentioned that I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of the &#8216;v&#8217; brand &#8211; aside from being almost impossible to search for, they tend to stick &#8216;v&#8217; before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charity","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dalelane.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}