Hi! I don't think that anyone who does such things like design as a professional would consider the logo any good. No offense to the effort creating one, but I would consider it an absolute failure. I have to admit, and I think I'm not the only one, that I'm not able do it any better. I such at designing things. But I would rather stick with the old logo, than inventing something much more worse.
I think, when you proposed to make CA somewhat more visible to the world, you didn't indent to trigger negative reaction because the image looks like crap. Let's have a somewhat realistic look at the logo. It uses three colors. Corflowerblue (I think it's the name of the wannabe-blue in the background), red and yellow. The only purpose of these colors is to distract the viewers eyes. They do, because the colors don't stick together. It's like a car crash. It's damn ugly, but you can't look away. Sure, a car crash causes attention, people probably will talk about it, or even take a closer look. But the general intention is negative. It was a football player who said, that the round thing must fit in the square thing. But there isn't even a nice square thing. Omitting the blue background would be a start. Then the need to put the read font on white background for the CA lettering would not exists. Do you ever saw a professional web page with red font color on white background? Did you ever feel such thing would be easy to read? No (I hope). Even if there are error messages on a webpage that have a red font color, they have a dark background for the contrast. Mostly they don't use red, they use something like orange, or #b42e33 or wine. Then, what is the meaning of the round yellow-red thing? Are we related to sun? Is there any reason why it is a round thing? Why don't just pick a triangle? Or, totally unrelated to a plugin featuring framework, a puzzle piece? It's not that I simply want to arbitrary flame your approach. I wish I could do it any better. I would spend you a new logo (for free, in mercy). But if I would try to make a logo now, it would be done in paint and have a similar look. I just really hope, that this logo won't make it to the official representative logo of CA - or any log representing CA. So *please*, don't use this logo. Use the old one instead. Let it look like a machine, like a pluggable mechanism intended for use by geeks only. It's not that bad. On the contrary, I find it (the old one) really good. That's my (personal) opinion on the logo. Regards, Alex -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Carville Sent: Samstag, 8. August 2009 18:17 To: CGI Application Subject: Re: [cgiapp] CGI::Application Logo On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Savage<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks > > Here's a sample: > > http://savage.net.au/three.jpg Thanks. Here is an example of it in use. You won't be able to get past the login page but the remainder have a similar layout. http://www.totalflood.com/tf-check -- Stephen Carville ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################ Eingehende eMail ist virenfrei. Von AVG überprüft - www.avg.de Version: 8.5.392 / Virendatenbank: 270.13.47/2289 - Ausgabedatum: 08/07/09 18:37:00 ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
