now this is a really professional looking patch icon, terrific! gets a strong vote from me :)
-josh
Andrey Savitsky wrote:
Hi. I agree with Marc
if the logos and icons are designed to be impressive, there's a high risk that a bunch of clueless newbies will complain about pd's look. So we should keep it simple, to the extreme. We love screen captures...
How i see, now there is a choice between logo in Macromedia's style (021 - this is the best from 007-021) and pure screencapture style (022-030). http://www.pure-data.org/Members/andre/pd_icon_test21/image_view
#021 has very nice design, but i'm not sure that pd needs logo like this. I very like modern graphic design, but if a designer creates the logo like 021, he expresses just one idea - "we are contemporary!", but pd needs its own message and mythology.
I think pd already has its own graphical style, embodied in classical (historical) logo - we can just type "Pd" in a object or message box : )
All now pd needs (i repeat) is a mythology. This purpose is usually reached by any illustration for a splash screen or some graphic stuff in additives to logo (maybe original graphic design for the installation package).
And icon is just icon on the desctop. i use my selfmade icons without pd-logo for example (see attch). If you would like to create a logo, don't begin from an icon, begin from a legend!!! (than maybe 021 will be best... or 010... or 007. than everything will change)
best regards, andrey
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