I interviewed for NYRR back in like 2022 for web and design stuff. One of the funniest interviews of my life. Pay was massively below the market rate for the experience they wanted. Almost any question I asked about the role and salary were met with a weird, vague statement like, "NYRR cares about our community!"
Not surprising they're doing a new a dumbas$ logo.
This new logo was probably done by an expensive ad agency not by the underpaid graphic designer who does the grunt work for the NYRR.
NYRR has a new mission statement to go along with the new logo...NYRR is now strictly a recreational running non-profit. Not a single word about competition, speed, racing, being faster...nothing.
We've come a very long way from the great Mary Wittenberg days when NYRR believed in both high level running and getting people off the couch.
NYRR has a new mission statement to go along with the new logo...NYRR is now strictly a recreational running non-profit. Not a single word about competition, speed, racing, being faster...nothing.
We've come a very long way from the great Mary Wittenberg days when NYRR believed in both high level running and getting people off the couch.
Fall of a great piece of USA running.
I've been on and off with NYRR for the past 2+ decades, and in that time, there was none greater than Mary Wittenberg. The club/organization was going in the right direction and her weekly presence at races was genuinely uplifting. The past few years have just turned into a slog.
Surprised to learn that the old logo is as recent as 2012. It looks very dated with that detailed runner silhouette. I prefer the clean looks of the new logo. I immediately read it as the torch of the Statue of Liberty though, if my first association were something else, I might have had a different opinion.
