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A brand new look for the VGHF!
🕑 Added 2020-10-06 18:19:42 +0000 UTCHey everyone, Frank here. Today we're proud to unveil the brand new face of The Video Game History Foundation!
Our new logo and brand refresh comes courtesy of our friend, Cory Schmitz. Cory is an incredible designer who has done some of our favorite video game company and game logos. We've been talking to Cory about helping with our branding since way back in 2016, before we even launched! So to see this finally realized feels, in a way, like we're finally becoming the group we envisioned when we started.
The entire website has been refreshed as well, and is a much better reflection of who we actually are today. When we started this Patreon campaign in 2017, I made no secret of our philosophy that a "video game history foundation" should be fluid and should adapt as the needs of preservation change (or in our case, better present themselves). The organization we were three and a half years ago is similar to what we are today, but we've made a few changes as well.
We've back-burnered some of the more ambitious and expensive projects (like the digital library) so that we can focus on the things that we are uniquely capable of changing in the world. Things like advocacy within the industry, the preservation of media art and assets, and a very large and exciting project around video game source code that I'm excited to tell you about later this month. We've streamlined the Foundation into a much more focused and stable organization, and I think the state of historical video game preservation is going to be better off for it.
From me, Kelsey, and the rest of the team (I HAVE A TEAM NOW!!!), thank you so much for your support these past few years. We're only going up from here, and we're excited to have you along for the ride.
Comments
Ryan Shapiro
Love it! Happy to support the mission!
The Video Game History Foundation
It's up to interpretation but we think of it as a left to right evolution of video game history, from chunky pixels to polygons to photo-realism.
Andrew O.
Website looks great! Sticky header/nav is a bit large on mobile, but otherwise awesome! Any meaning behind the logo's shapes and colors? They seem pretty random.
