The 200th Anniversary Logo

Mr. Thompson’s submitted design featured an all-embracing circle or nimbus highlighted by the combination of the primary colours red and green to create a lively attractive image of the Mission and Ministry of the Anglican Diocese of Barbados during the period 1824 - 2024. It featured 14 smaller circles with centres concentric from the main circle revolving clockwise indicative of passage of time from the year 1824 and signified by green connecting arrows to represent the 14 Episcopacies that shaped the evolving Missions and Ministries from Bishop William Hart Coleridge (1824 – 1841) to Bishop Michael Maxwell (2019 -2024). 

The dominant features of the logo are expressed centrally in the number 200 graphically portrayed in font text adding interest and balance to the design space as the central purpose and message of the logo as well as recording for posterity the milestone. The overlapping oval shaped zeroes also signify the historic and interlocking relationships between shifting paradigms over the 200 years. (Slavery, Abolition, Scholarship, Education and Training, Church Building Expansion, Disestablishment, Ecumenism, Restructuring, Ordination of locals, Ordination of Women, Technology in Liturgy). The blast of the 2024 nimbus in the bottom represents the explosion of excitement of reaching the 2024 milestone and the PR blitz to follow in a renewed commitment to the post Pandemic mantra “Build Back, Better” and the Vision and Mission going forward.

The final updated design also features an all-embracing circle or nimbus. This was kept due to its all-embracing nature encompassing the 200 years of mission and ministry. The 14 episcopacies that coincide with the passing of time from 1824 - 2024 that were previously represented as additional yellow circles have evolved into Golden faceted peaks. It translates better for readability at smaller scales and a simpler emblem that honours their original intention. The dominant centrally located 200 remains a prime focus of the emblem. 

The words “Anglican Diocese of Barbados” are used in the text to distinguish and anchor the

Logo, surrounding the reason for the celebration at the core, 200 years. The blast of the 2024 nimbus is no longer resigned to the bottom but is now the explosion highlighted, the celebration itself.

In effect the elements that carried similar meaning were combined in a way to maintain their meaning and symbolism in a way that makes the logo as applicable in all the ways it will be used in the coming year in a modern format that is clear and readable at as many sizes as possible in the digital arena we are now in.

All this comes together to create a simple symbol to mark the 200th year of the Mission and

Ministry of the Anglican Diocese of Barbados during the period 1824 - 2024.