Ben, > My beloved wife, Tamarah Rockwood, worked up an OpenSolaris logo concept > in January of this year. It was originally conceived as a physical 3D > sculpture as part of Tamarah's entry into the OpenSolaris Awards > Program, but she's pushed out a 2D rendering due to recent discussion > about a new logo. Please note that the sketch is not the final logo but > rather a conceptual sketch. > > The logo can be found here: > http://cuddletech.com/OpenSolaris-Mobius-Tamr-1024.jpg >
The logo instantly reminded me of the old Lucent logo (you can see it again on Dennis Ritchie's homepage http://netlib.bell-labs.com/who/dmr); sadly now replaced by the now rather cheesy Alcatel-Lucent logo. The Mobius thang is a great idea, but will always be difficult. To make "i" and "l" interesting is always a challenge, as is to fit the "s" into the same mold as the other cuboid letters, without the whole concept becoming completely Space1999. I personally don't go for explanation/justifications of logo design; rather just say "Hey! It looked cool!". Tamarah should really have been enlisted as consultant on the design of the London 2012 Olympics logo. Look what we got without her....... http://www.london2012.com/img/logos/green-homesplit.png :-( Good effort! Regards... Sean.
