Things were going well, we were all infused with the Spirit of Progress that working on a Worthwhile Scheme can generate. At the same time, the launch date was slowly, quickly looming.

Displaying a desparate lack of industrial relations, the project committee dropped out of contact a few days before deadline and then resurfaced after to say that they had "finished off the logo in-house". Read: "made ugly".

What you see here are 2 working versions: I preferred the free-flowing red-threaded one, which was developed into something more geometric (apparently this lent credibility) and using the Department's own corporate colours.

What you do not see is the final in-house massacre, complete with alternating vertically and horizontally stretched Futura, wacky New Wave shapes in the background, and a whole new colour scheme.