Will, thanks for the reference. I think that helps a lot. My opinion (I confess I have not read everything yet):
I loved the idea of Starfish. I think that makes a lot of sense. But I'm not sure if it is easy to recognize. "P" looks like Parking. "X" seems prohibited. Wheelchair, seems a wheelchair. I remember the point I raised is a symbol. Not a logo. It is to be recognized. It is not to spend the concept of coworking. Technical differences over a symbol for logo: Symbol has no color. Has no slogan. Has no illustration. No more message. It is simply recognized. How Hotspot Wi-Fi. Although I love the idea of Starfish, I think that a simple coffee mug would be a better symbol for coworking. What do you think? ᐧ On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Will Bennis, Locus Workspace < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > This seems to be in part a re-hash of a very old (2007) discussion on this > same group that might be worth looking at first: > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/coworking/coworking$20logo/coworking/Kx-PSRJV6P0/Adyc_cDUuW4J > > I think it's a very useful earlier conversation for several reasons: > > - It's actively constructed by some of the early and most important > creators of the coworking movement > - It puts forth the starfish as a central image for coworking and > explains why > - It puts forth a clear argument as to why some kind of symbol for a > movement might be an important thing. > - They created a logo page on the wiki as a workplace for people to > try to create the ideal form, with many examples for people to contribute > to: http://wiki.coworking.org/w/page/16583882/Logo > > My sense is they were pretty far along in the conversation, so we'd do > well to start there. > > Best, > Will > > On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 11:17:08 PM UTC+1, Fernando Aguirre wrote: >> >> Hello. I'm thinking it would be interesting to be a universal symbol for >> coworking. So you can easily identify coworking spaces in general. As there >> is with pharmacies, schools, police, etc. >> >> I believe a symbol can be useful to better spread the concept. As >> recently done with the Bug Heartbleed: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ >> 2014-04-28/the-branding-of-a-bug-how-heartbleed-became-a- >> household-name.html as well as the W3C made with HTML5. >> >> The idea is a universal symbol, distributed free of copyright. In a quick >> study made a proposal. Is attached. Maybe some more talented designer can >> propose something better. >> >> What do you think? >> >> >> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-A-bekElkF3s/VLRHgbDgJTI/AAAAAAAAAUU/fJeJCWj9_TI/s1600/coworking-simbol.png> >> >> -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/coworking/kGzQmIhyQAo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Grande abraço, Fernando Aguirre www.fernandoaguirre.com.br (51) 9440.9452 -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
