[advocacy-discuss] Logo/Mascot Continued...

Sara Dornsife Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM
Sun Jul 8 18:17:30 PDT 2007


Perhaps a stretch, perhaps anti-bear-ness..... Just not a fan. I'm only one.
Sara


Simon Phipps wrote:
> Since when has Coke been an open source project? I could believe 
> people would associate something monster-like with Mozilla, but your 
> anti-bear-ness is struggling to find a rationale there :-)
>
> S.
>
> On Jul 7, 2007, at 15:29, Sara Dornsife wrote:
>
>> In coming up with a mascot we have to consider other mascots as well 
>> as the image we want to portray.
>>
>> Polar Bear - Coke
>> Dragon - Mozilla
>>
>> Even though these suggestions are different looking than those, we 
>> probably can't use them.
>> Sara
>>
>>
>> Robert Lunnon wrote:
>>> Rob Giltrap wrote:
>>>   
>>>> I've finally had a chance to catch up on some OpenSolaris lists and
>>>> liked the logo/mascot discussion particularly Bob's suggestion of a
>>>> newly hatched dragon.
>>>>
>>>> I set my 10 year old daughter to work (as it is the school holidays) and
>>>> she produced a nice concept picture...
>>>>
>>>> http://thermo-nz.blogspot.com/2007/07/scale.html
>>>>
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>>> Thanks for that, it's sort of what I imagined though I would just have 
>>> two egg halves to simplify the imagery. Anyway, after looking at your 
>>> concept I have had a few thoughts,
>>>
>>> 1. The old Matron Dragon (Solaris) lays the egg and fies off into the 
>>> sun  (Old Solaris (sun) symbol which then goes dull)
>>> 2. The baby (scale) hatches (Birth of OpenSolaris - Child of Solaris)
>>> 3. Baby scale, takes off toward a dull sun
>>> 4. Baby Scale torches the dull sun which lights up and becomes the new 
>>> Solaris (rising sun) symbol
>>> or
>>> 3. Baby scale sees a linux penguin and torches it.
>>> 4. Penguin bursts into flames (New solaris symbol)
>>> .
>>> Just think in 2018 we can do a teen dragon, how cool would that be.
>>>
>>>
>>> It's just a pity I can't draw.....
>>>
>>> Bob
>>>
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