From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 12:11:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 360AF16A420 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:11:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B719143D46 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:11:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h31so717404wxd for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CRXDueVuRTnCKClAhnng8iEsHzAQ5BZHC8yo9UcA5naW1bM2jAcVBVUa+b5IAb4hc8Gtl4BsT/uinZdmkL0EQpx3nX7C2XrbNhgHghY2ZKtf8I9z1Mqqz1OFO/jI07kT0uQMhrdI05yen2oiJS5nwNNZ7bv/eBp7kWjMPMGGd68= Received: by 10.70.129.17 with SMTP id b17mr514020wxd; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:11:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:11:12 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Kristian Vaaf" In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060228115336.0221b858@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <8B838E3F-0421-446E-873F-1C8C5A12070C@alaska.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060228115336.0221b858@broadpark.no> Cc: Don Poynter , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regarding new logo... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:11:14 -0000 On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf wrote: > > You like the logo? > > Speaking as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, on behalf > of myself and a lot of other designers, the new FreeBSD logo is worthless= . > > It's useless eyecandy. As if we don't have enough of that already. > > The logo competition wasn't held properly. It was only announced > internally within > FreeBSD's circles and not promoted through design universities, communiti= es > and such. Also the people hosting the competition have acted rather arrog= ant > towards many that I know who just wanted to help. > > Second, only a few selected people (who may not know anything about desig= n > as far as we're concerned) got to choose the logo. In my opinion, it is t= o show > how the FreeBSD project itself neglects its real life users. > > The logo is, again, eyecandy. Though in some cases pleasant to look at, i= t does > not fulfill the criterias of a modern day logo. These, however, do: > > http://youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=3DP0370 > > Anyway Don Poynter, his e-mail is gak at tomsksoft dot com. > I'd tend to agree with you, ever notice the arrow in the FedEx logo? I like everything I see here: http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/640-1.png but it's mostly just eyecandy. The only logo candidates I see on the page are the two tone black and white beastie heads. Anyways onto the FedEx logo, one of the best branding logos I can think of: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/