Logos I
I designed this Windows icon for my QueerByChoice.com website.
Good icons are very difficult to design, because they have to
communicate a clear concept in only a 32 x 32 pixel square—or
a 16 x 16 pixel square if there's any chance of them ever being
viewed as "small" icons, as was the case here. I
designed it in Windows Paint and then used a freeware program
called IrfanView to convert the image to icon format. Next, I
saved it to my QueerByChoice.com root directory with a filename favicon.ico,
so that anytime anyone visits QueerByChoice.com and bookmarks a
page from it, this icon will appear next to it on their "favorites"
menu in Microsoft Internet Explorer, and whenever they visit the
site after that, the icon will appear next to the address in the
address bar. If you have a website of your own, you can create
your own favorites icon the same way.
Here's a Queer by Choice button I co-designed with
Kersplebedeb.com in March 2000. You can buy a copy at Kersplebedeb.com if you
want.
I designed this banner in September 2000 to link to
a website of mine which at that time was called "Queer
Advice for Questioners: How to Choose Your Sexual Orientation
Labels." I have since rewritten the site and turned it into
the Queer
Recruitment Center section of my QueerByChoice.com website.
These are three
of the six banner variations I designed in September 2000 to
spread the word about the institutionalized hostility to queer by
choice people by the PFLAG national office, and the resulting
harassment of queer by choice
people in many PFLAG chapters. My
logo is a parody of the official PFLAG logo, which looks exactly
the same except that the heart and triangle in their original
logo are (of course) not broken, and their original logo isn't (of
course) 
accompanied
by the word "DISCRIMINATES!" Click on any of the
banners to see the full array of banners I designed.
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