The proposed timeline comes after the county’s NAACP branch called the current image “a symbol of the southern plantation economy designed to ensure White privilege and Black subjugation” over the summer.

We’ve done it again: D.C. United made it to the playoffs like the Nats did, so like the Nats we’ll honor United by changing our logo during its post-season run.

We’ve gone and changed our longstanding DCist logo for the Nats!

Yesterday the George Washington University unveiled its new logo, which looks a whole lot like the old one.

Ward 6 ANC Commissioner and Anacostia blogger David Garber noticed this morning that the Council redistricting committee’s redesign of Ward 6’s boundaries bears a stunning resemblance to the logo of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings.

Wegmans and Walgreens have reportedly reached a settlement in which the grocer will stop using its “circle W” logo it had started using in 2008. Well geez, if that’s the standard we’re holding to for trademark infringement, the Washington Nationals might want to start thinking about alternate insignias. (I’d suggest keeping it simple.)

Rumors began swirling around Twitter and the Internet this morning that this jacket shows off a leak of the Washington Wizards’ new logo, circled above — which basically is just a re-coloring of the team’s current brand with the franchise’s traditional red, white and blue hues.

The Washington City Paper unveiled a new logo in print and on the web this morning, shifting away from the brand it had used since 1996. The logo revamp is the most visible part of a cleaner look for the alt-weekly, which includes several changes inside the paper.

Noted graphic designer Ken Carbone used his space at Fast Company earlier this week to address the National Football League’s ugliest helmets, of which there are plenty. (Helloooooo, Tampa Bay!) As someone with an amateur hobby of monitoring professional and major collegiate sports uniforms — for instance: have you seen these new Nike college football unis, apparently left to us from a race of super-intelligent hypergalactic beings? — this editor believes Carbone hit a…

It was five years ago this week that a small band of bloggers came together to officially launch a little web site called DCist.com, and a lot has changed since then. We’ve grown from a scrappy half-dozen or so writers to over 45 regular contributors and photographers. We’ve hired our first full-time employee, and later brought on weekend editors. And we’ve seen our amazing readership (and of course, the commentariat) consistently grow to where…