Creating The Real Estate Science Logo
To capture the essence of Real Estate and Computer Science in a logo, an icon was needed to mesh or connect the two knowledge areas together. In doing so, the above two-dimensional icon within the re-sci logo is a graph which simply represents a connected world. Using graph theory, ten nodes or vertices are connected by lines or edges. The nodes are colored blue and green to represent water and land, respectively, while the addition of edges create universally accepted home icons within the logo’s icon.
Custom blue and green colors were chosen for the textual lettering to match the nodes’ coloring. The font face used was PakType Tehree with a medium style. Inkscape was used to create the re-sci logo, .
Purposefully, multiple home icons can be found within the 2d graph icon. Just like a multiple listing service, this type of design was used to represent a global mls or a world wide mls. In future versions, the icon graph may become three-dimensional and much larger in scale.
At first glance, you may notice only two home icons within the icon graph, but if you look closely there are many more. Please feel free to comment below on how many hidden home icons you see located within the new re-sci icon graph.
The Real Estate Science logo can now be found on ResearchGate.net and on Twitter @rescience.
–Corey
Sandy Shore 9:13 am on 2011/10/26 Permalink |
Corey, great ideas…but talk about an industry that is slow to adopt!!!(…at least in South Florida). We are in an MLS that doesn’t even support ‘drop-down’ menus for the hundreds of subdivisions we have here (we are a very subdivision-centric market where HOA’s are a dominant feature.) This means that we can have the same community name spelled multiple ways, making searches a nightmare. It’s even worse when you use third party IDX solutions. Having a cohesive and consistent structure to the MLS – especially in this day and age, would seem like a no-brainer. This is exactly the kind of situation that can be implemented by a single national (or international) information provider. Local MLSs are monopolies and highly proprietary entities that are ripe for some well organized and aggressive competition.
coreyleong 3:59 pm on 2011/10/26 Permalink |
Greetings Sandy and thank you for your comments. It’s not surprising to hear about MLS’s like yours. I have been researching this topic for many years now which has lead me to my recent work on WWMLS. Unfortunately, the only way to nationally standardize MLS information is by implementing the MLSN protocol and by using an agreed upon XML markup language. In the coming weeks, I’ll post more info regarding Remetal, Real Estate Metadata Language for adopting for internationalization (I18N) purposes.