Today the local community college unveiled the logo for its new mascot, the “Triceratops.” It is indeed, as university communications folks have declared, a “stout and imposing,” “formidable, yet likable” creature.
Students, faculty and alumni voted on the mascot last fall, selecting Triceratops over five other options: Jazz, Tridents, Blizzard, Coyotes and Challengers, the name Tri-C has been using for years.
Tri-C hired a design firm to produce the logo and released it this morning. We’d been cautiously optimistic — we loved the mascot’s originality from the jump — but nervous that a Triceratops logo just might not be all that intimidating.
We now rest easy. Colored in Tri-C’s trademark teal, the logo is not your standard cartoonish Barney. Take a look at that snarl! Those horns! Those lunging, muscular hindquarters! Bonus points for the generous black shading and the seashell styling of the dinosaur’s trademark neck frill.
The Trikes should be proud to charge into competition with this unique logo on their chests or sleeves. “Triceratops” not only meshes well with the school’s name, but also symbolizes the toughness and resolve of the Tri-C community.
Scene is very much on board with this development.
This article appears in Jan 9-15, 2019.
It will look slick on caps and other gear. Now…..when is a football team finally being added to athletics — whatever local high school or college stadium being used as the home field could be called: The Land That Time Forgot.
Which company designed it? Looks like a Brandiose design, to me.
It’s triceratopses…
Dull. Originality is dead. #numb to duplicity.
I think it’s ridiculous. Impossible to say or remember. Relates to nothing. Tri-C is a fabulous school for getting people some good fast learning to do jobs that are in demand. This silly monster is childish and completely out of wack with the mission of the school.
The students voted for the Triceratops as the new mascot & team name for Tri-C in 2005 too. Then it was overturned by the administration. Don’t know why. It was a good idea then too. We also had similar art for the logo back then produced by students without cost to the college. The suggested nickname then (and now) is the ‘Tops (with a top hat as an alternate logo for black tie events and the Jazz Fest). BTW, it relates to science, aglazen. Try pronouncing “Tops” if you can’t handle the full name. Wow, I wish there was a triceratops around for you to call it childish in person. Perhaps a rhinoceros (“rhino”) will do. Go ahead. Tri-it. Also, the Tri-C mascot and the CMNH mascot should get together for a science project, or PR at least.