On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Gary C Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Dec 2008, at 12:17, Jameson Quinn wrote: > >> 3. Personally, I'd love a mascot too; kids like cuddly. My initial >> brainstorms: >> >> associated with sugar? >> Pollinators (nectar) >> Hummingbirds (too western-hemisphere) >> Bats (anything nocturnal is culturally dangerous, but I love 'em) >> Bees (good possibility) >> flies (yuck) >> ants (has good community associations) >> gingerbread man (cute, but a little too gendered and shrek-y) >> bears (too generic) >> sugarcane fieldworker (yeah, right) >> >> I just googled and OMG WE HAVE A WINNER as far as I am concerned. >> That is cute beyond words and it is called a "sugar glider". I'd >> never heard of that name even though my mom's Australian but it is >> beyond my wildest dreams. >> >> What do other people think? > > Cute :-) But it needs to work as a 2 colour (+ alpha) icon at large > and small sizes all over the UI. The XO really is a very well chosen > design element... If we really can't keep it, well, my best thought so > far is to make something very similar/stylised, some other kid like > stick figure shape or perhaps face. > > Needs a lot of thought.
I'd strongly recommend against eliminating the XO as the core element of the UI. It was chosen specifically to represent children, and to maintain the human/body metaphors where appropriate. Substituting it with anything other than a human likeness would be counterproductive, I fear. I'm fairly confident that, though we can't use it as a brand identity, we can keep that icon in the UI itself. - Eben > --Gary > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep