Since today is world penguin day [1] some journals reported about Tux, which is a good reminder to keep our discussion boiling with the reference how Linux found its mascot [2]. To summarize the discussion I created a pad [3]. Anything to add?
[1] https://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/awareness-days-calendar/world-penguin-day-2017/ [2] http://www.gregroelofs.com/greg_lnxpeng.html [3] https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-mascot 2017-03-31 9:51 GMT+02:00 Heiko Tietze <tietze.he...@googlemail.com>: > 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
