I like this flying image and that it has more than one wings - motion. I have zero to do with deciding the logo, but if I did this one would covey what I fee; about Open Office - you can fly with it. Microsoft Office is bogging workers down. Open Office lets you FLY. I was a long time user of Office and Word Perfect Office. Open Office is better than both of them for 99% of all computer users.
This logo conveys what I want to see about Open Office - that you can fly. You are not held down by bloated, expensive software. Now, if you guys would just make a mobile version .... Steve On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Robin Fowler <[email protected]>wrote: > Ok so this what i've made, I'm sending two different versions, one with > the feather and one without. The gulls are aligned to form the shape of a > book (hence the text). The Font is the Bitstream Vera font. I didn't spend > much time on the feather, it's one of the things i will work on some more. > The reason i didn't use the apache brand feather is simply that it doesn't > really fit the design. I'm happy to make some changes if there's any > requests. > > > Regards, > Robin > > On 30 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mr. Robin, > > The openoffice.org needs a complete overhaul, right from the logo. The > site > needs to be attractive since we have no other inducement to keep the > visitors to stay on the website like free offers, gifts etc. If you have > any design, post it here so that eveybody can see. > > (If the attachment is large, the server may reject the mail. Then you can > post it at some site and send the link. Or send the details to me and I > will upload the file and place the link here. > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 30 January 2013 19:22, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok thanks for the clarification. My first question: > > I had a look around for something I'd like to do and came across the logo > design concepts for version 4. I've made a design and was wondering if I > just go ahead and edit the page (on CWiki), adding my design or do i send > the design to someone who is responsible for editing the page? I guess I'm > looking for some kind of general guidelines for the CWiki.. > > The other question is regarding the website, what is the approach to > working on this, is it preferable to do minor improvements or could i go > ahead and make an entire overhaul? Are there some guidelines for this or is > it completely up to the individual? > > Thanks for your help! > > Robin > > > On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:04, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > Hi, > > my name's Robin Fowler and I'm currently based in the UK. I love doing > > graphic design and thought this would be a good opportunity to contribute. > I'm mainly interested in marketing and UI design. > > > > Hi Robin, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! > > I have read through the introduction modules and have signed up on the > > CWiki, and I have some questions but will hold back with them in case I'm > asking at the wrong place (perhaps someone can give me a hint). > > > > This is the marketing mailing list. So it is a great place to ask > questions. We don't currently have a separate list for graphics or > UI. If it is related to marketing, branding, logos, promotional > artwork, etc., then we discuss it on this list. If we're talking > about the graphical elements of the core OpenOffice project then we > discuss it on the dev mailing lis ([email protected]). > > Regards, > > -Rob > > > Regards, > Robin > > > > > >
