[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback
Rafael Vanoni
Rafael.Vanoni at Sun.COM
Fri Mar 14 15:13:33 PDT 2008
Hey Glynn
Amongst all the Indiana/OpenSolaris stuff that has been going on and
because you mentioned that Sun is paying someone to come up with a logo,
I can't help but wonder if this new logo is for OpenSolaris as a whole
or OpenSolaris as Indiana (?)
thanks
Rafael
>> 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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