[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Patrick Finch]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>>  Or, could we also change the logo to generate better brand affinity, and
>>  highlight some of the themes that are central to our project? Innovation?
>>  Collaboration? Boundlessness? A couple of people at Sun have been looking at
>>  this very thing, and recently contracted an agency to start exploring some of
>>  these ideas -
>>
>>  http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-logos/logos.html
>>
>>  complete with Simon's head, for giggles. Thanks to James Duncan Davidson for use
>>  of his photo of Simon at EuroOSCON.
>>
>>  What do you think? Are there any strong themes coming through? Could you imagine
>>  seeing some of those designs on some swag or in the desktop UI? Do you like the
>>  color palette, or the design? Could you suggest some changes?
> 
> I like the O with an S in it.
> 
> I don't like the bubbles one as it is too similar to fedora's bubbling
> theme and isn't particularly recognisable.
> 
> The multi-people one is interesting, but doesn't really convey
> something meaningful.
> 
> Cheers,

I like that the O with the S in it is a circle - easily used in a 
variety of situations, also integrated into the desktop itself.  But I 
find the design rather similar to the Sony-Ericsson logo, and I don't 
think it the design is especially representative of anything.  I like 
the colours: strong, uncluttered, modern.

I like the bubbles as part of a wider theme, but I do not think that 
they are representative as a logo.

Also - is the idea to change the wordmark (font and colour) ?


Patrick