[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Jason J. W. Williams]

Everything Ben said is spot on. The bubbles logo seems like the lesser
evil we're all going to have to live with if its selected.

It doesn't seem like the bubbles will stand on their own for brand
recognition the way the penguin does for Linux or the demon does for
FreeBSD.

-J



On 3/26/08, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote:
> Glynn Foster wrote:
> > However, as Simon mentioned in a previous mail, OpenSolaris OS is on a
> time
> > based release, and the cut off date for getting some branding ready was
> always
> > going to be tight from the start. As a result, we're going to stick with
> the
> > designs that are at a later stage of development, iterating on the colours
> and
> > fonts of
> >
> >    http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-logos/logos-4.html
> >
> > and seeing how things go.
> >
>
>
>
> I understand the time constraints, but these sorts of things tend to be
> hard to kill once they are executed on.  I'd prefer to stick with the
> existing wordmark until it can be properly sorted out.
>
>
> I don't really have a choice in this, I have no recourse, but I'll go on
> record as vehemently opposing this design.  Its not distinctive, its not
> memorable, it conveys very little (I could argue that the grouping of
> various sided "blobs" convey collaboration or community, but thats a
> stretch); its just not a logo to build a brand on.  As an active contrib
> of Advocacy, I need a logo/mark/image that I can build a brand on, and
> this isn't it.
>
> benr.
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