Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-17 Thread Robert Martinez
logo made specifically for this project. If I still couldn't convince you with my view then I don't know what else I can do in order to engage the community. (Who decides now?) kind regards, Robert Martinez ___ talk mailing list talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Martinez
for that at best. My conclusion is a plea to the project management: please try to find a capable design team as soon as you can! You won't get satisfying results in the long run if there are no such team. In the meantime I suggest (with grinding teeth) using the table to get a result. Robert Martinez

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Martinez
On 05/16/2010 06:35 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Robert, Robert Martinez wrote: There has to be a design department for OSM with authority and competence [...] My conclusion is a plea to the project management: please try to find a capable design team as soon as you can! Do you know

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-16 Thread Robert Martinez
On 05/17/2010 12:51 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Steve, SteveC wrote: I think we should probably vote that person in. But sitting around saying it looks like clipart gets us utterly nowhere. All that does is piss the guy off, and he clearly knows a lot more design than you or I do, or are

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Martinez
Matt Amos wrote: as a preface, some thoughts i had a while ago on the OSM logo http://www.asklater.com/matt/wordpress/2006/05/infamy/ On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Robert Martinez m...@mray.de wrote: having a real map as part of the logo offers some nice opportunities indeed

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Martinez
John Smith wrote: don't mind the current logo, it incorporates the fact that there is bits behind the rendering... Isn't that kind of lame in the digital age we live in? :P ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Martinez
Frederik Ramm wrote: Robert, In my opinion a logo has to reduce the amount of representation to the absolute essence in order to work right. [...] I chose to stick to the basic aspect of marking things on a map Marking things on a map is the absolute essence of trivial POI collection

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-14 Thread Robert Martinez
I would be interested to do so! Looks like I'll be near Barcelona at that time but the deadline for submitting talks is over. Maybe there are still free slots for a lighting Talk SteveC wrote: On May 13, 2010, at 1:50 PM, Robert Martinez wrote: What exactly would you expect

[OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Martinez
for any feedback. Greetings from Ulm, Germany Robert Martinez ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Martinez
On 05/13/2010 06:26 PM, Ian Dees wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Robert Martinez m...@mray.de mailto:m...@mray.de wrote: Hello OpenStreetMappers, I would love to offer a special contribution to the project: a new logo! I hope the community (you) will give me some

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Martinez
On 05/13/2010 07:56 PM, John Smith wrote: On 14 May 2010 03:14, Robert Martinezm...@mray.de wrote: - scaling makes it impossible to retain the nice details you want to apply to the logo Only if the logo is in raster, or only if you are shrinking it to an extremely small size,

Re: [OSM-talk] new logo

2010-05-13 Thread Robert Martinez
What exactly would you expect to be the talk about? On 05/13/2010 05:46 PM, SteveC wrote: this could be a good SOTM talk too? On May 13, 2010, at 9:32 AM, Robert Martinez wrote: Hello OpenStreetMappers, I would love to offer a special contribution to the project: a new logo! I hope

[OSM-talk] Logo status?

2009-12-06 Thread Robert Martinez
After some research coincidence I found out about the logo contest for the foundation. Is there a contest for the actual logo, too? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk