On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 21:15:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
In the past i worked on purely traditional packaging so everything you saw in the supermarkets i had a hand in. Food, clothing, magazines, etc.
I just asked because I was genuinely interested in your background, not because it would be particularly relevant for this discussion. However, please understand that when your answer to a question for design references is "everything you saw in the supermarkets" and a shop you do software engineering for, I have somewhat of a hard time taking you seriously. You probably wouldn't talk like that to (former) colleagues, would you?
Believe me branding is everything do not take this stuff so lightly.
I'm not taking it lightly. The big issue I see with the current state is that D simply doesn't have a consistent brand at this point, and never had (D Man, anyone?). Frantically clinging to the current bits and pieces doesn't help us at all, and neither do alarmist and inflammatory sweeping blows directed at a honest (and only partially related) volunteer effort.
Instead, we should try to channel what we currently have into a appealing and recognizable brand. Even if that means slightly touching up the logo to adapt some of the elements that might have been hip a while ago, but would seem rather quaint in a current design. I completely agree that this can't be a matter of somebody toying around with Inkscape a bit (no offense!), but discouraging everybody from addressing the issue at all while at the same time not bringing anything to the table yourself also isn't particularly productive.
David
