WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 7C
Double X double pickaxes
Just a slight tweak to Design 7B, I removed the shovel in the mining tool pair as I thought there’s just something a lot more elegant to the double pickaxes than a pickaxe and a shovel. The symmetry makes them more like the almost symmetry seen in the baseball and cricket bats.
This is the last of the Round 1 series, which were met with a lot more criticism than support, and maybe fairly so since I wasn’t feeling all that inspired or thrilled with most of the designs, but didn’t feel inspired to find other content or approaches. However, the hand tools evoked feelings of Communism and Facism in the designs that I did not expect. They cited the old Soviet Union with a small hammer and sickle in gold on red. Well…
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REFERENCE
Westville is an inland bedroom community of about 3,500 people in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, that has a proud and sometimes tragic mining past that ended in the 1990s. There once was three underground mines, and an explosion in 1873 killed 70 miners, for whom there is a memorial. Another prominent memorial in town is the cenotaph. Like many mining towns, Westville once had some prominent amateur sport teams in baseball, cricket, hockey, and football. However, today, there is only a recreational sport scene there. The town’s colours are a deep blue, white, and black, and is on everything from the website to the former high school and current minor hockey league team. Miners and mining are definitely Westville’s identity, with their website pointing out on its home page how this small town with a big heart needs to honour its past so as to have a future. The town has no logo, a very crudely drawn seal of two men working in the mines, and practically no branding aside from the colour scheme mentioned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westville,_Nova_Scotia
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