On Wednesday, Oct 22, 2003, at 17:16 America/New_York, nick phillips
wrote:
just an idea -- i wonder if it might be best to post the potential
logos on pure-data.org minus the descriptions/reasoning? not to say the reasons aren't important -- i've found the discussion fascinating so
far -- but in the end, i imagine that a newcomer to PD will judge the logo, and therefore in part PD itself, on purely aesthetic grounds, and won't be much interested in the logical reasoning behind it. perhaps it might be best to also judge the icon based on purely aesthetic interests
also?
I tried a bit to get a page of just all of the images, but I couldn't
get plone to do it. Maybe someone else can figure out how to do it.
You could always do it manually... ug...
i suppose i'd like to err on the side of a logo whose look itself best expressed the idea of PD, otherwise we may end up with a logo that
looks aesthetically "off" but whose reasoning is sound (i'm thinking here of the awful C74 logo in particular)...
I totally agree.
.hc
again, just an idea -- feel free to explain to me why i'm wrong!
best, nick
As I somehow started this thread, I want to throw in some thoughts
too.First, instead of sending logos to the mailing lists, we should really collect them on the pure-data side (I still use pine, and its not setup to view images !).
Then as it is a contest, I think it does not make too much sense to make restrictions. If someone thinks it can only be black and white and one should see the pixels ... ok.
People can submit the logos together with their reasoning why they
made it this way and why it is the best of all, the only thing that we would
have to do at end somehow together is to agree on one ...I think the best way is that some one (hc ?) makes an official like description how to submit the logos (deadline in two weeks or so), then we make preselections and go together through the decision
process.It would be nice if the outcome would be other artwork too, like pd-backgrounds, pd-shirts, pd-mugs, pd-underwear, etc aso ..
Guenter
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Andre Schmidt wrote:
don't quite understand why i should create a pixel editor with pd to
get the same result as with an "icon editor" program ???-andre
Marc Lavalle wrote:
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:43:39AM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner
wrote:I think we are talking about a logo from which icons will be made.
I think the yin/yang came up because it looks like the letters Pd,
but I agree, I don't see a strong connection to Pd. I personally think
that the icon should be designed in Pd, since Pd is all about creating
media.I agree. Since pd is "graphically challenged", the logos and icons
should be designed accordingly. Included is my pd icon, made with pd on
Linux (it's only 137 bytes). Earlier this summer, I installed the actual pure-data.org logo, made by patrick@11h11.com.-- Marc
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