Hi, On Sun, 21 Feb, 1999 à 11:02:32PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > Laurent PICOULEAU wrote: > > My ideas of debian/linux (without any significance in the order) are : > > freedom, power, cooperation. > > Sounds like elephants to me.
Why not ? > > What animals symbolize these ? (and don't forget it's a cultural issue, > > dragons are considered as dreadfull in occident and benevolent in asia) > > freedom : flying birds (Johnatan Livingston the seagull...) > > power : big and strong animals (elephant, bear, buffalo, whales) > > cooperation : social insects (ants, bees, termites) > > If you - or others - could turn this into draft logos we would have > another set to choose from. I'm afraid I'm not blessed with talent for drawing ! > > So animals don't appears as a good solution. > > No problem of using something else. Please let your mind fly and > come back with some drafts. No problem as far as you don't expect me to draw these drafts ;-) BTW does anybody understand what made the success of the gnu or the penguin as logo ? They're not associated with some nice quality. The penguin drawn by Larry Ewing is nice and fun but the gnu ??? The more I think of that, the more I wonder if we should not just pick an animal and draw it in a cool way to meet success. (beaver perhaps) > > Last point, opposing to Joey, I do think that the word Debian should be > > integrated in the logo, for example if the idea of the escape is taken, > > the bottom of the sheet could be merged in the "i" of Debian. > > Well, you're allowed to have a different oppinion than me, however > this wouldn't fit logo rules. > > Think of > > 0-------0 > 0 0 > 0 logo 0 Debian GNU/Linux - the universal operating system > 0 0 > 0-------0 > > 0-------0 > 0 0 > 0 logo 0 > 0 0 > 0-------0 > Debian GNU > Hurd > > Such positions of letters won't be possible. As top of a web page > you'll probably want to use the first one, but for logos on t-shirts > letterheads and stuff you'd like to use the second one. > Let me make my view clearer : I was not thinking of putting together a drawing and a few word but to integrate (stylized) letters in the drawing. To give international examples, think of VolksWagen or Texas Instrument whose logo include VW and TI. I think that the word "Debian" is short enough to be a part of a logo. I agree with you that "Debian GNU/Linux" would be to long for a logo. Regards, Laurent -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /~\ | \) Linux : mettez un pingouin dans votre ordinateur ! (/ | \_|_ Seuls ceux qui ne l'utilisent pas en disent du mal. _|_/
