<x-flowed>At 10:57 AM 12/7/00 -0800, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 10:13 AM 12/7/00 -0800, Mike Noyes wrote:
> >Everyone,
> >I uploaded my new logo entry. Let me know what you think.
> >
> >ftp://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/leaf/logo/mhnoyes/tux-leaflogo0.2.png
> >
> >p.s. I'm still not happy with the helmet. I'll try to work on it later
> >this week.
>
>Pretty good. The helmet is OK, suffering a bit in that it is drawn in a
>different perspective from Tux.
Yeah. I did change an objects perspective once before in the Gimp, but I
can't remember how.
>The real problem is that the circuit board (assuming my guess here is
>right) is too dark to be easily recognized for what it is ... it suffers
>from the same difficulty that the shop router did in Dave CInege's old logo.
A nice idea that doesn't look to good when implemented. It'll disappear in
the next version, if I can't fix it .
>That said, my taste is still leaning towards one of Pedro's designs ...
>less metaphorical, but as a result more straightforward and descriptive.
>I'd encourage him to refine the more colorful one a bit -- lighten the L,
>and extend the top arm of the F past the "starbeam". On a dark page like
>the one Rick prototyped, this logo looks very sharp now, and with the
>small bits of cleanup I suggeste it would be very dramatic.
>
>Pedro's simpler LEAF logo looks good, on a relatively "stock" Sourceforge
>page; it also has the advantage that it would print up well on inexpensive
>stickers or transfers [I recently discovered that the water-transfer
>tattoos that Lineo was handing out at some trade show, probably
>LinuxWorld, applique quite nicely to the fronts of cases - much nicer look
>than stickers], so could be used on the actual devices easily (were I
>churning out LEAF-based hardware, this logo is most likely what I would adopt).
This is my favorite logo so far. I may work on some simple entires this
weekend.
>I don't recall if I suggested this on the list, so forgive me if I repeat
>myself .... whatever we adopt as the "official" LEAF logo, we should keep
>all the dandidates, in their final forms, available as Open Source art for
>LEAF users, in much the spirit that Debian offers alternatives to its two
>offical logos.
I agree. I'll scp my Gimp xcf originals to the logo dir.
BTW, I got the images I'm using from:
http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
http://www.thefirestore.com/cgi-bin/thefirestore/catalog.html
http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/gallery/
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Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/
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