How about a tardigrade for a mascot? What is a tardigrade you ask? Also known as water bears, they are adorable, and also perhaps the most indestructable creatures known to man. https://youtu.be/6H0E77TdYnY https://www.tumblr.com/search/tardigrade%20gif
On Apr 26, 2017 3:26 AM, "Stefan Weiberg" <stefan.weib...@germandev.org> wrote: > To put my two cents in. > > The dragonfly is already used by DragonFly BSD and Opera Dragonfly. > > On 26/04/17 10:57, Heiko Tietze wrote: > > Since today is world penguin day [1] some journals reported about Tux, > > which is a good reminder to keep our discussion boiling with the > > reference how Linux found its mascot [2]. To summarize the discussion > > I created a pad [3]. Anything to add? > > > > [1] https://www.awarenessdays.co.uk/awareness-days-calendar/ > world-penguin-day-2017/ > > [2] http://www.gregroelofs.com/greg_lnxpeng.html > > [3] https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/UX-mascot > > > > 2017-03-31 9:51 GMT+02:00 Heiko Tietze <tietze.he...@googlemail.com>: > >> Hello all, > >> > >> additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to > introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can > be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot. > >> > >> The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/ > duke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a > lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with > the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has > "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/). > >> > >> The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to > be creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the > realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like > a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something > more symbolic. > >> > >> Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and > ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Heiko > >> -- > >> Dr. Heiko Tietze > >> UX Designer > >> Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509 > >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Primary PGP Key (4096 RSA): > Key ID: 9F73 1A0A > Fingerprint: 0C67 F721 D7FF 0D9C 13FA 10FD 8141 BA2B 9F73 1A0A > > Public Key can be exported from pgp.mit.edu, keyserver.ubuntu.com and > sks-keyservers.net. > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: design+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
