[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Tim Foster]

Tim Foster wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
>> How about a turnstile done with Tamarah's mobius strip?
>> (or will it look too much like a flower :-)

Okay - this isn't quite right, but see what you think.

http://mediacast.sun.com/users/timsf/media/turnstile-moebius.png
http://mediacast.sun.com/users/timsf/media/turnstile-moebius.svg

This time, I drew the turnstile arms as single strokes, and coloured
each with a gradient, as a sort of stylized möbius strip.

I think that using gradients in logos makes things a bit awkward when
you reduce to very few colours (for t-shirt printing, embroidery or
whatever), and it's hard to do a möbius strip in 2d without them!
Perhaps not a big deal.


I definitely get Shawn's sentiment that many people won't get the
connection between a turnstile and an OS, but there's not much
relationship between red pandas and web browsers either ;-) A logo just
has to be memorable, and used *everywhere*[1] for it to be recognised

	cheers,
			tim

[1] cf. Firefox vandals: would love it if we had an opensolaris logo we
could plaster on walls everywhere
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flore_frmoz/2293906077/in/set-72157603994990279/

-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
				  http://blogs.sun.com/timf