Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 06:11:12 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Kristian Vaaf" <vaaf@broadpark.no> Cc: Don Poynter <dzine@alaska.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regarding new logo... Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602280411p3833e899hc37000033c42acea@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20060228115336.0221b858@broadpark.no> References: <8B838E3F-0421-446E-873F-1C8C5A12070C@alaska.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20060228115336.0221b858@broadpark.no>
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On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> 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/
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