Is it just the disease we want to symbolize?
How about all the other things that come from the disease?
We can focus on needles and pokies and pumps and insulin and all the things that keep us alive, or we can focus on what sets us apart from everyone else - the things in our heart.
Let’s do things in order! We are a community for diabetics first. If we can’t even indicate that, our logo is not going to be very good. That’s the first step. The next step will be to try and connect more precisely to who we are. The first hurdle is: what are good symbols for diabetes?
Disagree… we are not diabetics first… we are unlimited people first… with the nuisance of diabetes secondly… the primary symbol should be symbols of being unlimited… the “limitation” of diabetes should be presented as secondary
@Sam, This is a marketing exercise, not one of inner significance.
The logo connects people to our community. We need this to make a visual identification of relevance to people who see it first. It does not help us to attract all the “'unlimited” people of this world to the site. We need to give the graphic artists signs that make it a sign that it is for people with diabetes. We are not a community for unlimited people. We are a community for people with diabetes that want to be unlimited.
This may just be me, but I’ve never paid a lot of attention to site logos at all…and I’ve never taken time to study or analyze site logos in a way that I may connect with them, or the messages their logos are attempting to get me to understand…again, that’s probably just me though. I’m a simple person.
I think we are a community of people who consider themselves unlimited despite having diabetes…diabetes, to me isn’t first…it’s second. If we’re trying to relay the fact that diabetes doesn’t hold us back, then should we restrict ourselves by saying we’re diabetics first and foremost? Then unlimited afterward? At least I don’t think so.
But I understand your point, though…people will “look for us” because they are either diabetic themselves, or they have loved ones who are…they won’t search us out because they wake up feeling “unlimited”…
How about three stylized blue circles (the universal symbol of diabetes) with the letters F U D, one letter in each circle.
The stylized circles can emote motion, positive direction, or other uplifting ideas.
I’m not even going to try to draw this.
My goodness, I had NO IDEA there was a universal symbol.
Here it is btw:
http://www.idf.org/sites/default/files/Blue-circle-200px.jpg
Unfortunately, I don’t think others know about it either 
I understand what you’re saying but don’t entirely agree. Symbols of “diabetes” aren’t attractive, inspiring, positive, or endearing… if we can somehow offer a symbolic logo that captures first and foremost the unlimited nature we’re trying to capture here I think that’s a winner…
I offer the following conceptual difference… one is the logo of a different diabetes site… it does nothing for me. The second is a picture of someone with diabetes being unlimited… of course that’s not a proposed logo, but hopefully the concept os understandable…
I knew about the single circle, but was wondering about a 3 circle deal. @docslotnick, are you suggesting somehow connecting three of these blue circles (like the Olympics, for example?)
Nobody will associate the second one with our community though. Although they should!
I think he’s trying to express more the idea, than the image itself. The fact that people wouldn’t associate it with us is a POSITIVE in my opinion…we’re not just any other “diabetic” website (see first image.)
Heh. I don’t do Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media, and even I knew what the blue circle was. I think it’s gotta be pretty well recognized in diabetes circles. (pun intended 
)
Again, this is a marketing exercise. We want people to associate the logo with what we are. That’s what it is for.
Yes, and the disagreement…or debate…if it’s a better term, I think we’re having right now is what “we are”. lol
@ClaudnDaye Not necessarily. I think design should be up to the graphic designer.
But you indicated 3 circles…I’m trying to visualize that. Wait…I shouldn’t try to visualize anything?
Okay, I’m done for tonight. I’m obviously headed in directions not necessary. Will catch up later!
To me it’s simple…if you want to be recognized as a diabetic website…use one of the boring ideas, contraptions or anything “old school” diabetes…we all know what they are.
If you want to be UNLIMITED…then prove it by making your very first message…unlimited. And stick the pesky diabetes message in there somewhere.
@ClaudnDaye Of course you should try to visualize it any way you see it. I’m just trying to suggest recognizable elements.
I’m such a bad artist that I can’t even visualize a finished design.
