Sahnan Abdullah Proud Bernama Logo He Designed Is Still In Use

KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (Bernama) -- Sahnan Abdullah is proud and honoured to see that the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) logo he designed in 1975 is still being used by the news agency. Shahnan, now 80 years old, said he never thought that he would also be awarded with a Special Award for designing the logo at the agency’s golden jubilee dinner Monday night. “I am proud and overwhelmed with the fact that from 1975 until now, the logo I designed is still being used and I hope that it will be retained,” he said. He also suggested that the logo be improved by raising the letter ‘B” and colouring it gold and retaining the blue background. “The gold colour is symbolic because gold is valuable and respected, so it is truly relevant with Bernama as a local news agency and well-known to the world,” he said. Shahnan won the Bernama logo design competition which took place from Feb 15 to April 30, 1975. Before having the specially designed logo, Bernama used the word ‘Bernama’ in orange colour. Shahnan, who was 38 years old at that time and worked as an assistant design artist at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Institute of Language and Literature or DBP), was inspired to create the logo based on the teleprinting machine used by Bernama to send news. -- BERNAMA