Next year, the city of Lexington will turn 250 years old as a celebration of that birthday, the city held a competition for artists to design a logo to commemorate the milestone.

Learn more about the design that won and this week's arts and culture segment we call Tapestry.

So they gave me this t shirt, which is super fun to see it printed for the first time.

And I also love that they chose the blue background because when I started the project, I knew it needed to show up on dark backgrounds and light backgrounds.

That's one of the first things you got to think through when creating a logo is how is it going to be implemented and how is it going to show up on something really small or really big.

So I had a friend bring the design prompts to my attention a few days before the due date, and I didn't realize.

But once I read it and also saw what the prize would be and how big of a project it was, I just got so excited and pretty much spent an entire weekend working on the idea that I had.

It kind of just popped into my head, to be honest.

I had read the prompts and you know, there's so many cool, historic things that have happened in Lexington in the past 250 years, but I decided to focus on the birthday part of it.

I figured a more simple design would be more versatile wherever they wanted to use it, and there were so many things to try and cram into a logo that I really just simplified it down as much as I could, keeping just their words to 50 likes and then added lots of fun colors and shapes to it so that they could use it to symbolize all of those things about Lexington that I love.

When I first heard about the idea, this was the sketch I did, and I had actually read it wrong and started doodling looks to 50 and I was really glad I caught that before I submitted it.

I had a few different ideas going, but like I said this, the cursive letters with the fun colored shapes around it really popped into my head right away.

So that's what I decided to run with.

Lexington is going to have a whole year of celebrations, especially focus in the month of June.

They're going to call it Come Home month so we can look forward to a whole year of events.

So I kept that in mind as well.

And I was designing the logo because I wanted it to work in every season by keeping it really simple and also providing them with colors that worked with their current branding.

I knew they'd be able to implement it throughout the whole year and that it would serve them really well.

Do you remember when you came with Mommy to go to the press release for the logo that Mommy made?

Do you remember?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was so special having you there with me.

I felt extremely honored that they wanted not only to get a logo out of this, but they wanted to celebrate the artists that made it.

It was just super cool for me to get to meet the mayor, to get to be on the news.

Just little things that graphic designers normally wouldn't get credit for.

I ran into people around town that were like, Hey, congrats on that logo.

And I was like, Whoa, that's that's so cool to get to be recognized as an artist in that way.

And Lexington's always been really good about that.

Celebrating artists, making space for them to hone their craft and share it with the community.

So I've really enjoyed that.

Yeah.

And you're my special helper too, right?

When I'm working, you're a really good helper.

Mm hmm.

I wasn't really quite sure what scale the project was going to be used, but people at the mayor's office just kept saying to me, Do you know what a big deal this is like?

You're not gonna be able to turn down a street in Lexington in 2025 without seeing your artwork somewhere, which is just crazy cool to think about.

I'm really excited for that year to come about.

Crazy cool indie.

Congrats to her.

The 250 Lux Commission also opened applications for a permanent 3D art piece to celebrate the birthday.

It's set to be the largest public art work commissioned by the city.