Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 20:18:22 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tony <abletony84@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity Message-ID: <201204082018.22045.erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CADnJ0kHO%2B5dzNZdBCWjH=nmKK=WROUhm%2Bz0vAsn62cdFB3zzrA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CADnJ0kHO%2B5dzNZdBCWjH=nmKK=WROUhm%2Bz0vAsn62cdFB3zzrA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, not again. Erich On Sunday 08 April 2012 19:40:12 Tony wrote: > Hello! > > As much as I love FreeBSD, I'm a bit alarmed by its webdesign / corporate > identity. Since FreeBSD is the world's best OS, I believe it should have a > design that reflects this. A design that is so neutral and stripped of any > unnecessary details that the user's attention is directed straight on to > the content as opposed to how the content looks. A design that you can look > at over and over without getting annoyed. > > The current design is an uneven mix of various styles, and seems more > forced than well thought out. First you have the shiny Satanic 3D-lookalike > logo (yes, despite what y'all say, it's still Satanic) that might look cool > the first few times one looks at it. Now though it's more like "what the > hell *is* that thing anyway"? (ref: Tres > Logos<http://www.amazon.com/Tres-Logos-Robert-Klanten/dp/3899552679/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332777820&sr=8-1>; > ) > > Then you have a surrounding layout trying to cater to that logo, but fails > miserably as it was made by programmers as opposed to people with an actual > education in design <http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/>. There is no natural > flow <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminar_flow>; and the whole thing just > comes off as corny <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=corny>; - > and this makes us all look bad. I also hear > PostgreSQL<http://www.postgresql.org/>is planning to sue FreeBSD for > stealing its design. > > I propose a new, supersimple look for FreeBSD based on > Helvetica<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkoX0pEwSCw>. > No devil logo, no bells and whistles, just straight forward "FreeBSD" - the > world's best operating system. So simple that hardly anything it will go > out of fashion and need to be replaced, so simple that it'll remain as > current now as it will be a hundred years from now. > > "Perfection is achieved, not when there's nothing left to add, but when > there's nothing left to take away." > > Tony > http://siegelgale.com/ <http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/>; > http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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