If the reclined dude has to go, why not someone of indeterminate
gender on a Lotus pose? Nothing says 'relax' like yoga, at least in
the popular imagination (I tried yoga once, and I was sweating inside
30 seconds).

J

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Dan Santner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I actually like the current logo as is.
>
>
>> On Oct 27, 2014, at 8:49 PM, Manokaran K <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Bryan Green <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I am not sure the logo has to have the meaning be so obvious.  Looking at
>>> the world of other logos, it doesn't seem that meaning is that important to
>>> branding.  The two primary uses of a couch is to have people sit on it or
>>> lay on it.  I am not sure showing someone sprawled on a couch helps anyone
>>> make the connection to Relax anymore than the couch itself.
>>
>> If we accept that meaning should not be read in a logo, then we can
>> just ignore that the pose means anything :-)
>>
>> If we also accept that 'no publicity is bad publicity', then kicking
>> up a controversy like this can actually be good for CouchDB!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> mano
>>
>> --
>> Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
>> ~ Pablo Picasso

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