Universidad Nacional de Colombia

The Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia), is a Colombian public university founded in 1867 and actually has general campuses in Bogotá, Medellín, Manizales and Palmira, and satellite campuses in Leticia, San Andrés (island), Arauca, Tumaco and La Paz, Cesar.
==Coat of Arms (1947–2015)==
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The Coat of Arms of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia is an heraldic emblem created in 1937 as a request of the at the time, General Secretary of the University Otto de Greiff Haeusler (1903 — 1995), to the Director of the Fine Arts School José Rodríguez Acevedo (1907 — 1981). In 1947, the Coat design was standardized by artist and professor of the Fine Arts faculty Francisco Antonio Duarte Medina 
The Coat of Arms is an escutcheon comprised by two Polish style shields (a smaller one located at the center of a big one), surrounded by vert colored leaves of acanthus. Perched on top of the escutcheon, there is an Andean condor holding a banderole with the national motto of Colombia, LIBERTAD Y ORDEN (Spanish for Liberty and Order). Along with the banderole, the condor holds an olive crown. At the bottom of the shields there is a banderole with the motto of the university in Latin: INTER·AULAS·ACADEMIÆ·QUÆRE·VERUM (Search the truth in the rooms of the Academy).
The big shield is divided in four sections, each one representing different areas of knowledge taught at the University:
- Quarterly I (Top Left, Gules) has Argent colored weighing scales, representing Justice (Faculty of Law)
- Quarterly II (Top Right, Azure), has the motive of the Bowl of Hygieia: an Argent colored chauffer (a portable stove) surrounded by an Or colored snake in the same fashion of the Rod of Asclepius, representing Health Sciences (Faculties of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy)
- Quarterly III (Bottom Left, Sable), has an Argent colored Greek letter Pi (π), representing Mathematics (Faculties of Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Engineering)
- Quarterly IV (Bottom Right, Gules), has a natural colored harp, representing the Arts (Faculties of Fine Arts, Architecture and the Music Conservatory)
The little shield on the middle (Vert), has three wheat spikes, representing Agronomy (Faculties of Agronomy and Veterinary)
==UN Logo (1967)==
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In 1967, Colombian architect Ricardo Velásquez designed a logo for the university, with the creation of a 180° rotational symmetry ambigram of the first letters (in lowercase) of each word of the phrase National University in Spanish (universidad nacional). The versatility and simplicity of the UN Logo, along with its widely acceptance by the university community, were decisive factors to adopt it as part of the University's official and institutional symbols along with the Coat of Arms.
==New Visual Identity (2016–present)==
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In 2016, the University decided to update the institutional iconography in order to harmonize it with the new technologies and to make official documents more readable and accessible. The image renewing process was started by the University in-house Media agency Unimedios in 2012 with Professor César Puertas of the Graphic Design department in charge of the redesign process. He redesigned both the coat of arms and the UN Logo and transformed them into simpler logos. Also Unimedios created a new font called Ancizar for the printing of merchandise and official documents.
==UNAL Brand (2021–present)==
In 2021 Unimedios created a new brand logo for merchandising and institutional branding based on the abbreviation UNAL that was derived from the official URL of the university. The contours of this new logo are based on the contours of the "un" ambigram . This logo is used along with the new logos created in 2016.
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