I like the posters as well, though the text should reflect the new CfP. Please DO change color and shape of the Wikimania logo -- strict visual guidelines haven't been laid out for such logos, and I think this is a wonderful thing. The logo I know and love best online is Google's, which has been modified, skewed playfully and absurdly, and remastered in thousands of interesting, unusual, and unexpected ways.
Every time I see someone respond to an artist's ideas with "thanks, but please stop taking artistic license with project logos," I cringe... why should a free content community project, of all things, be scared of this sort of creative reuse? SJ -- +1 617 529.4266 skype: metasj en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sj On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, phoebe ayers wrote: > On 3/1/07, Jakob Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ben Yates wrote: >> >>> I redid a couple of the posters from last year (they were made too >>> late to be used for publicity, but I think it's early enough this >>> year). >>> >>> http://benyates.info/WMPosters/ >> >> Thanks, but please follow the visual guidelines and do not change the >> color and shape of Wikimania logo. So >> >> http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster%202.pdf >> http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster.pdf >> >> are not appropiate but >> >> http://benyates.info/WMPosters/Wikimania%20poster%20plain.pdf >> >> is ok. You can add some colors, borders etc but not the the name >> "Wikimania" and not to the logo. > > Heh. You know Ben designed the logo in the first place, right? So I > suppose he can redesign it if he chooses... those posters are based on > some of the possible mockups from last year. The text is partly based > on last year's CfP and other materials; it should be reworked for this > year's conference to reflect this year's different CfP. > > If the conference is really only going with the original logo with one > set of colors, that should be made clear for all the designers. I > didn't think there had really been any consensus over whether that > logo should be the "official" logo for Wikimania (now and in the > future), or whether there can be variations in color, etc. My only > opinion is that I like Ben's posters! > > cheers, > phoebe > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
