On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Ross Kendall <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, animals and bright colours can be fine for a logo, when done with > some design sense (it just seem many open source projects don't have that > design sense). > Unfortunately, I have to agree here. The difference between being FOSS that attracts industry sometimes goes through this.
> My plea is that we not end up with something garish and childish. > And for that this should be made sure not to happen. > Consider what kind of thing you would like: > > Logo designed/chosen by a project lead or outspoken people because they have > the most say not because they have any design sense. > (For example this designed by Larry Wall, who is an amazing programmer, but > with unfortunate design sense: http://perl6.org/camelia-logo.png ) > Logo designed by someone with design skills, in a way that the community is > happy about (but not design by committee). But I'm sure we can find and attract the designers in the community to contest on making a logo. I think there's no problem in attracting designers to the community for this specific purpose. -Sivan
