In the spring of 2024, our office hosted design intern Phoebe Moreno, a recent graduate of the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Phoebe developed a family of logos that maintained familiar and well-liked elements in our hotline and ombudsperson logos, while also creating a unique logo for our office.
In our county, bridges are recognizable features and critical infrastructure. The logos for our office and the ombudsperson recognize this, while also acknowledging that our office acts as a bridge between the public and their county government.
The hotline logo is straightforward and conveys how we use the hotline as a check on suspected fraud, waste, and abuse of position in county government. The four prominent pillars in the office logo represent our core functions: performance audits, our hotline, the ombudsperson, and community engagement. Similarly, the two pillars in the ombudsperson logo reflect how that role supports resolution between individual people and the county.