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A bit about Bonesville's new
look
By
Sara
Whitford
Creative Director
Bonesville Media Services
Our regular readers may have noticed we've rolled
out a brand new logo on this Website.
What you probably don't know is that the background
of the new logo (the part that looks like old parchment paper) is an actual
scaled-down version of a true historic document.
When my dad (Bonesville head honcho Danny Whitford)
approached me a couple of months ago about giving Mr. Bones a new look, I
jumped at the opportunity. Bonesville has come a long way since it's debut
in 2001, and I'd say Mr. Bones certainly deserved a makeover.
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The new Mr. Bones
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The old-look Mr.
Bones
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My dad only had one request about the new logo: that
Mr. Bones’ swords be replaced with writing quills. (Clever, huh?) Not
wanting to just jump into drawing a new Mr. Bones willy-nilly, I decided to
do some homework. Since we have such a rich, pirate history in North
Carolina, I logged on to one of my mainstays for genealogical and historical
research, the N.C. State Archives online (see link below).
After doing a quick search for "pirates" in the
Colonial Records, I came upon a 1696 document entitled "Warrants for the
Arrest of Pirates," written by someone in the office of then-governor, John
Archdale. The document description said, "Form to be used for warrant to
arrest seamen charged with piracy upon the seas against the citizens of an
eastern monarch at peace with England. Includes manner of addressing the
warrants to Francis Fidling, marshal and under sheriff of Berkeley County,
S.C."
Unfortunately, the ink on the parchment in this
image is so faded, it was impossible for me to transcribe, but knowing this
very document was an instrument for seizing real-life pirates and bringing
them to justice made it the ideal candidate to serve as backdrop for the new
logo. Since the document has one warrant in Spanish and two in English, I
cropped out part of the document that was discernibly in English and applied
some PhotoShop magic to it... and voila! A perfect backdrop for a brand new
Mr. Bones.
Personally, I'm a huge history and genealogy nerd,
so I thoroughly enjoy browsing through the treasure trove of documents
available on the N.C. Archives site. I would encourage any of you who
haven't stumbled onto it already to click the link below and check out the
vast online repository:
North Carolina Archives Catalog Online:
http://www.ncarchives.dcr.state.nc.us.
This page last updated:
02/26/2007. |
