{ "id": "savage-badge", "title": "The Downtown Bend badge in black, on a design portfolio", "publisher": "Savage Skye Design", "sourceClass": "secondary", "url": "https://savageskyedesign.com/", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "notes": "Retrieved 11 September 2026 from the studio's portfolio; accession manifest at archive/online-research/2026-09-11/accession-manifest.json. A portfolio appearance, which is not a sole-authorship claim and is not a reason to overwrite the association's existing commission attribution.", "record": "https://bendemblem.com/archive/savage-badge/", "evidence": { "id": "savage-badge", "kind": "history", "date": "2026-09-11", "summary": "A monochrome, higher-resolution rendering of the Downtown Bend badge on a design studio's portfolio. Kept so the badge can be measured at a size its filed green version does not reach.", "findings": [ "Retrieved 11 September 2026 from the studio's portfolio; the file and its URL are in the accession manifest for that day.", "About four times the resolution of the filed green artwork, which is the reason it is kept: a measurement is only as good as the picture it is read from.", "A portfolio appearance. It is not a sole-authorship claim and is not a reason to overwrite the association's existing commission attribution." ], "limitations": [ "A portfolio display dates a rendering, not the badge's creation, and names no commission.", "Not a documented appearance: it is a second rendering of a mark already in the collection.", "The studio was not contacted and nothing here is an attribution." ], "objects": [ { "path": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png", "sha256": "179add178a1a61b0a79a969991acaafc49f3b78571a438f5e1491da28900e758", "url": "https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/662beaad0d2e0d179f9804a8/356a1642-376c-4d31-8c81-6271ef7d4ee3/Black%2BDowntown%2BLogo.png", "accessedOn": "2026-09-11", "role": "Received source image; portfolio page captured alongside it." } ], "images": [ { "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png", "page": null, "box": null, "title": "The Downtown Bend badge rendered in black at about four times the filed version's resolution.", "rights": "Savage Skye Design portfolio; mark commissioned by the Downtown Bend Business Association.", "color": true, "width": 400, "render": "Unmodified PNG as retrieved.", "sha256": "179add178a1a61b0a79a969991acaafc49f3b78571a438f5e1491da28900e758", "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png" } ], "sourceIds": [], "review": { "status": "image-reviewed", "method": "The retrieved PNG opened at full size and read beside the filed green artwork.", "reviewedOn": "2026-09-11" } }, "measurement": [ { "id": "savage-badge", "label": "Downtown Bend badge, monochrome portfolio version", "recordId": "savage-badge", "role": "reference", "family": null, "standsAlone": false, "construction": null, "confidence": "high", "readAt": 738.8, "readAtBasis": "the letters alone, at this drawing's own letter cut", "metrics": [ { "key": "deviceAspect", "label": "Device aspect", "what": "The roundel’s width divided by its height. 1.000 is a true circle; anything else is an oval, or a photograph taken at an angle.", "range": "0.977 – 1.048 across the collection", "value": 0.999 }, { "key": "wordAspect", "label": "Word aspect", "what": "The same ratio for the block of BEND letters alone, once cropped to their own ink.", "range": "0.927 – 1.862; the high end is lettering set wide rather than stacked", "value": 1 }, { "key": "figureInk", "label": "Figure ink", "what": "How much of the drawing is ink rather than ground. A heavy ring and fat letters push it up.", "range": "0.169 – 0.728, median 0.493", "value": 0.5221 }, { "key": "coverage", "label": "Coverage", "what": "How much of the normalised square the letters fill once every drawing is reduced to the same size.", "range": "0.198 – 0.576, median 0.456", "value": 0.5229 } ], "nearest": [ { "id": "dbba-badge-2018", "label": "Downtown Bend Business Association badge, 2018", "iou": 0.9002, "reading": "very close; the same drawing, or one traced from it", "href": "/archive/dbba-badge-2018/" }, { "id": "dbba-common-graphic", "label": "Downtown Bend gold roundel", "iou": 0.7907, "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut", "href": "/archive/dbba-common-graphic/" }, { "id": "dhs-2012-emblem", "label": "Deschutes Historical Museum, 2012", "iou": 0.7895, "reading": "a family resemblance, not the same cut", "href": "/archive/dhs-2012-emblem/" } ], "furthest": { "id": "bb-1949-08-24-12", "label": "Bulletin business directory, August 1949", "iou": 0.1878, "href": "/archive/bb-1949-08-24-12/" }, "ties": [], "excludedReason": null, "control": 0.975 } ], "appearances": [], "appearanceLeads": [], "exhibit": { "id": "savage-badge", "title": "The Downtown Bend badge, in black", "date": "2026-09-11", "publication": "Savage Skye Design", "locator": "studio portfolio", "intro": "A higher-resolution, monochrome rendering of the Downtown Bend badge, found on a design studio's portfolio. Kept as a reference so the badge can be measured at a size the filed green version does not reach.", "body": [ "The association's badge is already filed here from its own green artwork. This is the same badge rendered in black at about four times the resolution, which is the whole reason it is kept: a measurement is only as good as the picture it is taken from, and a drawing read at 1,484 pixels says things a drawing read at 300 cannot.", "A portfolio appearance is evidence that a studio displayed the badge. It is not a sole-authorship claim, and it is not a reason to overwrite the attribution the association's own commission record carries. This project files it as a reference for that reason and makes no claim about who drew what.", "It is not a documented appearance of the emblem either. Nobody put this on a window or a door; it is a second rendering of a mark already in the collection, which is what the references row on the board is for." ], "related": [ "dbba-badge-2018", "dbba-2006-bug" ], "collection": "reference", "images": [ { "name": "plate-1", "original": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png", "page": null, "sha256": "179add178a1a61b0a79a969991acaafc49f3b78571a438f5e1491da28900e758", "box": null, "width": 700, "caption": "The Downtown Bend badge rendered in black, at about four times the filed green version's resolution.", "alt": "A circular badge with the letters BEND at its centre, drawn in black on white, with lettering curved around the ring.", "credit": "Savage Skye Design portfolio · mark commissioned by the Downtown Bend Business Association", "sourceUrl": "https://savageskyedesign.com/", "color": true, "from": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png" } ] }, "displayAssets": [ { "path": "/archive/savage-badge/plate-1.webp", "source": "archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png", "sourceBox": null, "height": 708, "bytes": 44794, "width": 700, "quality": 82, "title": "The Downtown Bend badge rendered in black, at about four times the filed green version's resolution.", "rights": "Savage Skye Design portfolio · mark commissioned by the Downtown Bend Business Association", "derivation": "Cut from archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png; display source archive/online-research/2026-09-11/savage-badge.png: the full 1488×1505 px page. Converted to color WebP at 700 px wide, quality 82. Context thumbnail; open the source record for full-resolution reading." } ], "pageSources": [], "clipping": null }