The Pacific Linguistics Logo

In 1998 the Editorial Board decided that the appearance of Pacific Linguistics publications should be updated. Ian Scales, a former graphic designer and at that time a PhD scholar in the Department of Anthropology of the then Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the ANU offered his services to Pacific Linguistics, and produced the basic cover design used from 1998 to 2001, together with Pacific Linguistics' new logo, shown at the top of these pages. It appears on the spine and title page of every Pacific Linguistics publication.

The logo design is based on one small panel of a poro batuna from Vella Lavella Island in the western Solomon Islands. This artefact is made from a plaque of fossilised giant clam shell (Tridacna sp.), carved into an elaborate fretwork design. It is held, with others of its kind, at the Australian Museum (A8517) in Sydney. These artefacts were made in the western Solomon Islands, probably between one and two hundred years ago.

Pacific Linguistics
School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA

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Last modified: March 30, 2010
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