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Graphic Design

Creating a new logo for SIBMAS

At the 26th SIBMAS Congress in Vienna, 2006, the Barry Kay Archive suggested the Organization consider a new logo, meaningfully reflecting its mission as the International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Arts. Since the Executive Committee unanimously endorsed our offer to provide the logo, our initial design work began in early spring of 2007.

Capturing the intent of SIBMAS by trying to accommodate symbols of all three components - Library, Museum and Performing Arts - required us to follow the conventional route of using concrete renditions such as books, buildings and porticos. This approach inevitably lead to antiquated, unnecessarily cluttered, confusing and altogether counter-productive logo designs - least associable with the performing arts, let alone clearly and succinctly conveying the significance of SIBMAS.

Hence, we reasoned conclusively that symbolic illustrations of the Library and Museum are dispensable, as the Theatre definitely ranks first in embodying the Performing Arts. For, it is by its very virtue that the raison d'être of the Museum's and the Library's mandates are explained within the context of SIBMAS. Considering also that there is no typical building involved, we thus focused on ways of abstractly characterising the Theatre as SIBMAS' fundamental concern.

existing logo

new logo suggestion ----inverse background

Taking into account the multitude of venues presenting the performing arts, and to do justice to as many of them as possible, we pursued the archetype of the European theatre - the Greek amphitheatre. By making use of the graphically striking layout of its cavea, rendered in a stylized form to avoid moiré interferences, we arrived at a crisp, vivid and dynamic design solution that also allows for the harmonious integration of the SIBMAS acronym. The shades of red, ranging from burgundy to cerise, follow the colour scheme of the traditional theatre ambience with its furnishings of auditoriums and other public areas.

In our opinion, the logo is ideally suited to convey the mission of SIBMAS. It was finalized and submitted together with our presentation in the summer of 2007. At the forthcoming 27th SIBMAS Congress in Glasgow, August 2008, the Executive Committee will convene to reach their decision to adopt this new logo.

To evaluate the reactions to it, SIBMAS, TIG-SDR and FIRT/IFTR members, as well as anyone else interested, are most welcome to submit their views to SIBMAS logo, which eventually will be forwarded to the Executive Committee to aid their decision-making process.

Barry Kay Archive - February 2008

Barry Kay - posthumous tribute and commemoration

Hall of Fame

The Barry Kay Archive is pleased to announce that Live Performance Australia, the peak body for Australia's live entertainment and performing arts industry, posthumously selected Barry Kay as one of eighty theatre artists awarded a place in its newly established virtual Hall of Fame. This Hall of Fame, launched on 30 November 2007, is Live Performance Australia's way of paying tribute to a remarkable collection of people on the occasion of celebrating its 90th anniversary.

Frank van Straten OAM, theatre historian and former first director of the Victorian Arts Centre's Performing Arts Museum in Melbourne, provided a short biography on each artist, constituting the corner stone of the Hall of Fame.

Following the recognition of Barry Kay and the Barry Kay Archive by the National Library of Australia last year, and now Live Performance Australia awarding Kay a place in its Hall of Fame represents further acknowledgement of his important contributions to the performing arts.

The Curator - Barry Kay Archive - November 2007

Recognition by the National Library of Australia

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Groundbreaking
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The National Library of Australia, an Australian government body, aims to build a comprehensive collection of Australian publications to ensure that Australians have access to their documentary heritage now and in the future. The Library has traditionally collected items in print, but it is also committed to preserving electronic publications of lasting cultural value.

Bound by stringent selection criteria, the Library has identified Barry Kay posthumously for his artistic achievements, as well as the Barry Kay Archive for conserving, preserving and archiving Kay's creations, and for providing public online access to them - as:

"Heritage of national significance with long-term research value."

As a result, the online publication of the Barry Kay Archive is retained in the Library's database of PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) - Australia's Web Archive - to provide independent public access to it in perpetuity.

The Barry Kay Archive's continuously expanding online publication will be re-archived periodically at PANDORA to record significant additions and changes. Collaterally, PANDORA backup copies will be stored on stable data carriers, thereby preserving Barry Kay's legacy to the performing arts and the evolvement and history of the Archive bearing his name.

This development represents a sensational breakthrough and a remarkable advance for the yet relatively young Barry Kay Archive.

The Curator - Barry Kay Archive - November 2006

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Information about physical access to the Barry Kay Archive and the services we provide can be found at the Archive Plaza.

APPEAL

Did you know Barry Kay?

The Barry Kay Archive needs your help! To assist us in completing the itemized online Biography, consisting of Barry Kay's chronological professional development and activities, we would welcome to learn of any additional information you could provide, particularly so for the years prior to 1967. We are interested in professional engagements as well as social contacts Kay may have had in Australia, Switzerland, France, England and Austria. Should you wish to contribute in this respect, please contact the Curator.

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