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 feedback and possibly
help me to get the launch done.
If there is any hoop to jump through let me know.
If there has to be a competition, consider this my contribution.
If I don't reach the right people via this mail, let me know.
Here is my blogpost: http://freegital.de/osm-logo-proposal
Here is the presentation:
http://mray.de/sites/default/files/logoproposal_big.html
Keep up the great work on this amazing project,
and thank you very much for any feedback.
I quite like the logo. It adapted very nicely to a derivation I made
for my upcoming Minneapolis mapping party:
http://www.mapminnesota.org/osm-mn.jpg
I'm not sure I could change your suggested logo to make it unique to
my area and still retain links back to OSM to identify with the
greater cause.
having a real map as part of the logo offers some nice opportunities indeed!
But there is a number of inherent problems with actual map data inside
the logo, which is why I discarded any of my designs containing it:
- as Steve said already - there is too much going on inside there.
- then there is the issue with recognition, almost nobody would
recognize certain elements clearly (as well as a certain outline)
- scaling makes it impossible to retain the nice details you want to
apply to the logo
my approach would be to use other means like typography to indicate
association.
The free font would make this very easy to create a variation like this:
*logo*
OpenStreetMap
-Minnesota-
and then maybe use a certain color that you are already using on your
project homepage.
Cheers,
Robert
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
talk@openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
