WESTVILLE, NS (Canada)
Design 9A
Mine memorial
From a horizontal bicolour background of black coal on the bottom and blue sky at the top (albeit dark blue due to town colours), three mineshafts lit in yellow underground have their beams extended in pure white against the sky. The white and yellow breaks the rule of tincture, yes, but as a memorial, I wanted the pure white light that is also a colour in the town colour scheme. Even if the two metals in tincture were not distinguishable in viewing or reproduction pending conditions, the perception of a single coloured beam would be fine. The fine difference is a bonus in the design that can be sacrificed, not a necessity that is required for the design to make sense.
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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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