About our logo
Our logo was designed by Katharina Seifert, daughter of our former professor, Josef Seifert. She studied art in Vienna and graphic design at Parsons School of Design in NYC, where she is now based.
The unfolding leaves evoke the internal flourishing that occurs when a person comes into vital contact with high moral values and freely commits himself to them—the tua res agitur moment of human existence.
And they call to mind the famous passage in Newman’s Apologia, poignantly describing the kind of truth that the Personalist Project is dedicated to cherishing and spreading—truth that addresses itself to the heart as well as the mind, bringing not just knowledge, but consolation and true joy:
I am far from denying the real force of the arguments in proof of a God, drawn from the general facts of human society and the course of history, but these do not warm me or enlighten me; they do not take away the winter of my desolation, or make the buds unfold and the leaves grow within me, and my moral being rejoice.
Purple and green were chosen in part because of their association—at least in the Catholic imagination—with liturgical themes: hope, penitence, new life.