I think using clipart falls foul of the 'stock art' check that was mentioned earlier, see below. I am generally unimpressed by the use of such clip'art', simpler, possibly self-drawn symbols look way nicer IMHO.
I just prefer a clean look but that is just me, the logo is pretty good now and the icons should match that. Finally, we should really think about changing the prompt to 'pdl>' in perldl, perldl2 and when invoked via 'pdl'. Christian On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:24 AM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > Here someone else's opinion of 10 things to avoid in making a logo. > > http://weburbanist.com/2010/07/12/logo-fail-10-ways-to-avoid-making-a-creative-logo/ On 24/07/2010, at 11:12 AM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Responding to myself: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> The other symbols are too ambiguous, especially the ones to do with >> hands (and hands should generally be avoided in icons anyway). > > Speaking of hands: I remember several years ago when we selected a > mascot for the OpenOffice education project. The winning entry was a > drawing from a student in Italy. It was a sea bird doing an "ok" sign > with his hand. A couple of days after it was chosen we got inundated > with angry emails and there was a huge brouhaha in logs and Slashdot. > It turned out that the "ok" sign is an extremely rude gesture in > Brazil. I think it refers to a female body part, similar to how the > American hand gesture "the bird" refers to a male body part. We had to > edit the drawing to change the hand gesture to a waving hand. It was > an interesting episode. On the other hand, we probably got more > marketing for OpenOffice than any campaign we ever did. :-) > > Cheers, > Daniel. > -- > Intolerant people should be shot. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl -- Christian Soeller PhD Dept. of Physiology +64 9 3737599 x82770 University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand fax +64 9 3737499 _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
