Heiko/all, I am a big fan of freedom, openness, collaboration & the kinds of things that Libre Open Office and open source stands for. That said, a lot of the logos did look a bit cartoonish, kiddy cartoonish to me, which is not good.
I am a big fan of the Seabiscuit horse. (Credits: Laura Hillenbrand),as well as Tux (the penguin) and more recently Kali Linux logos, which looks fierce. In any event, here are some suggestions: 1) pitch the idea to Vint at Google & see what he suggests. he is the "Father of the Internet" and a mentor for my makerspace project. 2) I like the image of the Phoenix, sort of like the cat with 9 lives, except the Phoenix goes down in flames & arises again every 500 years or so :-) I feel the Phoenix symbol (will send in next email) is very powerful, elegant and symbolic of the upstart, little guy seeking a competitive edge. Pls google up phoenix meanwhile. Thanks, Cal Cal Tiger, cofounder Siliconbeach llc Cloud, IoT & makerspace 001-727-315-2559 Author of: Bootstrappers guide to the Galaxy, free ebook & blog Follow me on FB & Twitter: @cal_tiger On Mar 31, 2017 3:51 AM, "Heiko Tietze" <tietze.he...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to > introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can > be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot. > > The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/ > duke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a > lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with > the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has > "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/). > > The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to be > creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the > realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like > a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something > more symbolic. > > Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and > ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best. > > Cheers, > Heiko > -- > Dr. Heiko Tietze > UX Designer > Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509 > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: marketing+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
