I agree, I really like this logo. It is a real advancement on the previous. It stands up in b/w and is original. Great work! I really like the layout of it as proposed for the new site too...I think good to adopt it with the redesign!
I can see t-shirts a plenty with this cool logo on it! Jon On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 15:50 +0000, James Weiner wrote: > I have to say I really like Robert's logo! despite the angle of the F > feeling a little odd at first I think it works for me because it's > different and interesting. > > I think I'm happy with it although maybe seeing some other examples of > perhaps more exciting font usage would be good to see. > > I'm not sure the logo needs to put across ALL the different things > OFLB is trying to do - I think that logo is as effective as the OFLB > name. > > Ben and others - your thoughts? > > James > > On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:36, Robert Martinez wrote: > > > Dave Crossland wrote: > >> 2009/1/16 Robert Martinez <m...@mray.de>: > >> > >>> I made this for the last contest (but wayyy too late), and after > >>> browsing > >>> the amazing new page I fiddled around again: > >>> > >>> http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary.png > >>> > >> > >> I like it although the font used in the F isn't quite right, the > >> perspective transformation doesn't do it well... but I think it could > >> work nicely if the character in the middle was different, such as an > >> extended latin :-) > >> > >> James and Ben Weiner did the graphic redesign, so I hope they can > >> comment. > >> > >> > > I'm very interested in what they think, too. > > Their look is the key - the logo should fit. > > > > Concerning the choice for the "f" - it represents the "f"ont, where > > the book beneath it is the "open library" part of openfontlibrary. > > because of that I would prefer not to use a more sexy but unrelated > > charater. > > > > The transformation is a 30° skew, exactly like the book. That indeed > > gives the letter more "surface" than an actual rotation in a > > isometric space. > > So I tried bold semi-condensed, wich works much better :) > > > > http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary2.png > > > > > > > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ San Francisco + Beijing GLOBAL +1.415.830.3884 . USA +1.510.499.0894 . CHINA +86.1.360.282.8624 IM/skype: kidproto - Jabber: re...@gristle.org http://rejon.org/bio . http://rejon.org/bio/cv . http://rejon.org/projects
