[advocacy-discuss] Latest OpenSolaris T-shirt artwork

[Marcelo Arbore]

Well, about the t-shirt, I think It is just fine. It's something that I 
would use (and indeed, I use because the Tech Days here was 2 months ago 
hehe).
Besides, here in Brazil we have a proverb that the translation is 
something like that: "When we receive a horse as a gift, we don't look 
its tooth". =) hehe

Just to talk seriously a little bit:
OpenSolaris is a symbol of revolution in history of Solaris Operational 
System.
Probably the comparison of this two is already a good thing, regardless 
of what came from the 60's.
Furthermore, this crazy advertising  guys always just want to get us 
talking about what they design. =/

See ya,
Marcelo
 


Sean Sprague escreveu:
> Hey Jim, hope that you are well.
>
>   
>> On 12/04/08 04:37, Sean Sprague wrote:
>>     
>>> Having now seen the t-shirt "in the flesh" on Peter Karlsson, I am 
>>> even more convinced that the designer of it must have been on acid.
>>>       
>> Yah, but some cool things came from that generation. :) Oh, it's not 
>> that bad. I sort of like it because it's different and something Sun 
>> would never do. Same deal with the bubbles. I'm not sure what the 
>> bubbles mean from a branding perspective, but at least they are 
>> different. Also, Sun has ADD when it comes to t-shirts. This shirt 
>> will be gone in no time just like the last 10. And for evidence of 
>> this just go to Derek Cicero's office. He's got every Sun-built 
>> OpenSolaris t-shirt that has ever existed hanging on the walls like 
>> banners in a hockey stadium. I really should take an image of that.
>>     
>
> And some crap came out of the 60's too, like me and the Beatles. True, 
> the t-shirt is not that bad, but just visually confusing. I have also 
> always been confused about the message sent by the bubbles ("OpenSolaris 
> drowning in custard?"), but as a simple logo, it does work. As for 
> t-shirt ADD, Derek has a constantly-open request outststanding for a 
> bigger office, I guess. Clever Derek ;-) You should indeed get fotos.
>
>   
>> Anyway, we in the Tokyo OSUG plan to make our own t-shirt that fit our 
>> own personality (whatever that happens to become). As a gag for our 
>> first event, Shoji put together some shirts to get us going 
>> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/tokyo_opensolais_user_group_nomikai. 
>> Again, this is a gag, but the point is to make your own shirts. Take 
>> the Sun stuff, sure, but why not create some local shirts? I know 
>> other groups have done this (Czech comes to mind) ....
>>     
>
> As for regional t-shirt creation, we could really get kitsch, and have 
> famous monuments on the shirt - Tokyo could maybe have the Hanazono 
> Jinja shrine (I have never heard of it, but Google was my friend), the 
> Czech OSUG could have the beautiful Hradčany, and LOSUG could have a 
> part-finished 2012 Olympics venue building-site (as most of them will 
> be, come 2012) ;-)
>
> Regards... Sean.
>
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