I've said it before, I'm sure there are plenty of solutions to avoid some of the negative feelings people feel in this logo.
As logo #42 author said (sorry, forgot your name...), it would have been great to discuss about the 3 selected logos before the second round was launched and let the designers do some additional work on them, based on community criticism. 2012/1/25 Cosma Colanicchia <cosma...@gmail.com> > Just a suggestion about #49: the logo author may try to shorten the > middle segment, to avoid the illusion of a "plain surface" that could > be causing the sinking ship effect.. > > > Cosma > > > 2012/1/25 Dimitri K. <k...@noos.fr>: > > Let's not forget we are currently chosing a logo for an enterprise > > framework. > > It's a really different mindset from chosing a public brand logo (where > > perception and association are everything). > > > > Think about it, when you adopted Adobe Flex in the first place, how > > important its logo has been in your choice? > > I don't think that so many people dived into Flex because of the famous > "two > > letters in a square that try to make Flex kinda part of the Creative > Suite". > > And for all of you that are also currently experimenting with JS > frameworks, > > do you really care about its logo in your decision? > > Hey I'm even ready to use a JS framework with a three-legs smelly cat > logo > > if it would provide me with a good way of simulating interfaces ;) > > > > > > On the other side, I understand that our logo choice is the first real > > decision of the Apache Flex community, and added with the perception > damage > > of the Flex brand, this makes our choice a more meaningful one. > > > > But let's keep things in perspective, our logo will mainly influence how > > proud you're going to be, wearing your geek T-shirt at our first Apache > Flex > > conference ;) > > > > Dimitri K. > -- *Florian Fesseler* Architecte Flexhttp://lab.kapit.fr | http://www.kapit.fr (+33)1 70 56 91 51 | (+33)6 76 05 96 76
