On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:01 +0000, leandro ribeiro wrote: > Personally, I don't like the old one or this one. I also don't think > we should hang at the first "logo paradigm" someone offers and try to > improve it untill it's "ok".
I hope we will see less of this "I don't like this" and more reasoning. > How about an open contest with professional-reviews? I'll explain it > better: anyone who wants makes a logo and submits it to the contest. > We obviously have some people on the mailing list that "knows about > logos", their rules, the good design tricks, etc, so all these formal > designers would write some reviews about the entries and only after > that the voting would take place. A contest usually means that everyone feels the need to submit already refined work (because others do ...). But starting with sketches and going through several iterations with feedback is more efficient. A contest often leads to a decision between different designs where more variation of one design might yield a better result. A contest also implies a deadline instead of working until things are truly ready. How about anyone who likes submits proposals and we discuss them. Once something satisfies enough of the right people, it is adopted. It still can be replaced if something better comes up, especially as the project will not need or have broad public exposure for quite a while. > Another thing: I'm not a designer (in the sense I didn't had any > formal learning of the subject), but I do know that the logo does not > come alone, it comes with everything else: the font type used, the > visual aspect of the website, the flash-screen of the software... So > the people who submit the logos to this contest should also submit > their logo's consequence in everything else: what font will it be used > with this logo? What color? What kind of website? Etc. I wonder if you have any idea of what you are asking for here. One step at a time, you just can't jump to the top of a mountain. A good logo will be a nice starting point for the rest, but there's no need to define all that in advance. "Submit several months worth of work or don't bother at all" is nothing you should ask from volunteers in open-source projects. -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
