[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Pretty much since the inception of the project, we've been using the full word 
mark as the logo -

http://www.opensolaris.org/images/header.png

which has worked out pretty well.

We've produced some pretty awesome looking swag, but to some extent, it has 
limited use. For example, try fitting it into a boot screen like Alan struggled 
with last month -

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2008-February/001753.html

or using it in the desktop user interface, and you'll soon find yourself 
struggling with its size restrictions. Could we free those up?

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?


Glynn