of word logos and slogans

i like word logos. but now where should i put bsu and the institute of social research and development in this layout? maybe it's best this way. i have this research project where if i go for data gathering, the mere mention that i am from bsu, people will start to flinch. so i say i am from the institute of social research and development or isrd and hope hard they won't ask what or where is that. of course in many of my field works, it feels nice to be treated so well just because we said we are from bsu. and of course, other occasions, i'd proudly use the BSU t-shirts (i didn't get a loyalty award back in 1993 for nothing).

(digress)
we were requesting for some data from a government unit and we were told that per an executive order, we need to buy per page. fine with us because as i always say information is never free. problem is we are talking about around 100 pages data. so we requested for soft copy with a note that we were willing to pay. they responded that the executive order says payment per page. so in short, they cannot give us a soft copy. in my mind, then we would have to encode the 100 pages worth of data, when we could have easily paid more and got the encoded one similar to how PSA does it. anyway we purchased the data alright. only to find out that they sold soft copy of the data to another national government agency. apparent conclusion of the matter: they did not sell us the soft copy of the data because we were from bsu?

(digress)
we have this jacket at R&E and the only "tatak" was "R&E". BSU logo was not included. i don't know why they opted not to include the bsu logo. probably so that even if the JOs or COS staff will leave bsu, they can still use. and it was on voluntary basis paid by the staff themselves. but really, times like the above account, a jacket with just "R&E" helps.

back to my obsession for a word logo for isrd, i would like the "i" to be some variant of "bulul" or maybe the shade of some part of the acronym made of ethnic design, but not too much. something like when you see it, you see a human being or a person... for the "social" and some kind of simple graph for "data" that reflects "evidence-based policy etc.." anyway, i give up and admit that word logos are not my craft. for now, i will be content with the above tries for a corporate gift i would like to share.

(sigh) times like this, i sure miss kuya lito bibal (+) of philrice and the legendary dr. abastilla of BSU.

blessed Christmas from isrd!//