diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/Footer/index.tsx b/packages/app/src/components/Footer/index.tsx
index 6760ded9..26b2876b 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/Footer/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/Footer/index.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ const Footer = () => {
                         aria-haspopup="dialog"
                         onClick={() => setAboutModal(true)}
                     >
-                        <img src={vdl_logo} alt="About Us" height="32px" width="100%" />
+                        {/* TEMPORARY REMOVAL UNTIL AFTER CHI SUBMISSION */}
+                        {/* <img src={vdl_logo} alt="About Us" height="32px" width="100%" /> */}
+                        About Us
                     </Button>
                     <Link
                         sx={categoryCSS}
diff --git a/packages/app/src/components/Header/index.tsx b/packages/app/src/components/Header/index.tsx
index 4c355fa0..2e927bc1 100644
--- a/packages/app/src/components/Header/index.tsx
+++ b/packages/app/src/components/Header/index.tsx
@@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ const Header = ({ data }: { data: any }) => {
         justifyContent: "space-between",
       }}>
         <Box sx={{display: 'flex', flexGrow: '1', justifyContent: 'start', alignItems: 'center', margin: 0, padding: 0}}>
-          <img className="logo" id="multinet-logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multinet-app/multinet-components/main/src/assets/multinet_logo.svg" alt="Multinet Logo"/>
+          {/* TEMPORARY REMOVAL UNTIL CHI SUBMISSION */}
+          {/* <img className="logo" id="multinet-logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multinet-app/multinet-components/main/src/assets/multinet_logo.svg" alt="Multinet Logo"/> */}
           <Typography id="upset-title" variant="h1" noWrap component="div" sx={{ marginRight: '5px', lineHeight: '1.5', fontWeight: 'normal', fontSize: '1.3em' }}>
             Upset - Visualizing Intersecting Sets
           </Typography>