[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Jason J. W. Williams]

I think they look nice, but agree with Peter that they don't trigger
any association with Solaris. The first logo with the "opensolaris"
wording from Logo 2 would look the best of those options. But it seems
to me that if you have to right "opensolaris" next to a logo for folks
to associate it with Solaris, then its not right. A new variation on
the solar/sun metaphors would be cool.

-J

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> 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
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