When Naval History and Heritage Command ran a contest last year asking sailors and civilians alike to submit ideas for a new logo, command officials were careful to make clear that the winning logo wouldn’t actually be the NHHC logo, but it would influence the final design. The contest winner’s design focused heavily on the frigate Constitution, with a compass rose in the background. The runner-up’s work involved a quill, symbolizing how the sea service recorded its important information in the days before multiple databases, dozens of logins and passwords, and the occasional moth. So it should come as no…
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The Navy’s collection of wartime art has almost skipped a generation — a problem you can help solve. Art curators with Naval History and Heritage Command have plenty of pieces from World War II and the Korean War — everything from paintings by official Navy artists to cartoons drawn on notebook paper. Vietnam and Desert Storm are well-represented in the Navy Art Collection, as well, but there are few works from current sailors. So, do you fill your downtime with doodles? When the ship needs a mural, does everyone in the room turn to you? Do you hope the characters…
Navy History and Heritage Command had planned to name the winner of its logo contest sometime last month, possibly to coincide with the Navy’s birthday celebration. Then, this happened. Instead, the word came out late last week that designs entered by Nathan E. Quinn, a graphics specialist at the Defense Media Activity, were selected as the best out of dozens of proposals. “The main point I was trying to convey with the design is that ‘our past guides our future,'” Quinn told NHHC community outreach officials in a news release announcing his selection. His work appears at right. Honorable mention…
Naval History and Heritage Command is in the home stretch of a contest that’ll help create the centerpiece of its rebranding effort. Your mission: Create a logo for the command — one that promotes the command’s mission of preservation and historical outreach. The winner’s work will be used to inspire a new official NHHC logo, which will be rolled out as part of an overall command branding effort, likely later this year. Get the rules and details here. Your deadline: Monday. Your prize: The knowledge that your artwork helped shape the next generation of fleet history. Also, a certificate. One…
First, head here for all the latest sequestration news as it pertains to sailors and their families, and head here for a roundup of some programs, bases and units throughout the military already feeling the pain of the cuts that could go into effect — on paper, at least — as early as midnight tonight. If you’d like a historical perspective on the cuts as they pertain to the Navy, get it fast — Naval History and Heritage Command plans to close its archives, even to research requests, if the sequestration goes forward, the Navy announced Wednesday. The move will…
