I can't see anything military about it, care to elaborate? -Sivan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Michael Demetriou <[email protected]> wrote: > While I like the visual of this logo I'm a little bit afraid of the military > connotations. After all we are all about freedom of choice something > completely absent from the military. > > Thumbs up for the contest idea. After that however the branding should be > the work of a team and not crowdsourced as we need to keep consistency and > character. > > Before firing up a contest we should produce a mission statement and > principles document so that we can convey the ideas to the designers that > will participate. Also, we should require from the participants, besides the > logo, one paragraph of thoughts around the deisign. Finally the any > participating logo must come in 5 versions: color, mono, pixelated (16x16), > and if applicable, in horizontal and vertical orientations. It should look > good in all those versions (not machine generated variants). > > We could also use a new font if there is any font designer around. A > specialized font gives a unique character to the UI and branding material. > The font must be designed with primarily digital use in mind. > > M. > > On Oct 12, 2012 10:17 AM, "Sivan Greenberg" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Paulo Arancibia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Create a logo is really hard, you need to put in a small place, the >> > ideas >> > and the principles that you want communicate to the world, I think that >> > this >> > logo (http://play.qwazix.com/grog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/nemo3.png) >> > is >> > close to reach these objectives, some aspects, like the colors or the >> > font >> > are debatable, but I think that the concept behind this logo is the >> > correct. >> > >> >> Again, as mentioned before, I really like this one as well, and I >> think we should follow your design principles and style if we come up >> with another one. >> >> -Sivan >> >> > -- -Sivan
