The image of the cassette is off course a reference to music and music devices lost in time. It's a device that revolutionised the way we listened (and recorded) audio at home just like the Slimdevices did for music files. For me personally it's nostalgia to think of the days i spend recording radio on cassettes and making my own mix tapes for friends, in a way like i use my squeezeboxes to play radio streams and compose playlists.
The hearts are symbolic for the communities love toward a product that's been "taken away" from us and the passion for music we all share. The orange colour works well with dark colours like black and grey when using in hardware enclosure and software, but also works good on white. It's also the inverted colour of the original squeezebox teal. The orange is fitting for the hearts as well, red would be a bit much in my opinion. You can also squeeze an orange, a joke that's been used as the name for an android squeezebox remote "Orange Squeeze". The shapes and aesthetics are inspired by the original squeezebox hardware and software. The cassette is a bit the shape of the squeezebox touch, the rounded corners are similar to the shapes of all the squeezebox hardware and also the squeeze server interface. The typeface is also rounded and matching the thickness of the logo's lines and shapes. The design language can be translated to all sorts of uses like icons, buttons, interfaces, hardware and more to make it 1 matching and recognisable concept. The total image is friendly like the squeeze ecosystem is to it's users (user friendly, accessible) and the community towards it's new product. Making it look like a device that is not to "hacker" but usable for the whole family. In a way the look and feel is about listening to the music you love in an easy way. 14630 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: squeezeOS-mockup004.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14630| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jubarend's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59333 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98339 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
