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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Brand recognition of FOSS projects
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-06-13 6:59:50
Message-ID: 5847e5cf0906122359r42c053b3lef20e1c4231bea76 () mail ! gmail ! com
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2009/6/13 Diego Moya <turingt@gmail.com>:
> Recently Aaron Seigo wrote about the need to build a brand identity shared
> between Open Source projects for the final user.
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/build-brand-together-adendums.html
>
> Reflecting on it, I've created a logo that tries to unify the diversity of
> the FOSS ecosystem, and which could be shared by several projects. See:
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=106826&vote=good&tan=30405219
>
> The idea for the logo is based on the Beryl-Compiz rotating cube. I've
> chosen it because it's a visual landmark of the modern FOSS desktops, it
> already has some traction as a popular icon, and it works fine as a
> container. This allows to use it as the base to combine this meta-logo with
> the logos of the other projects.
>
> I'm not an artist, surely a graphic designer could give it a more polished
> finish and clean up the nodes of the svg file. I've published it as Creative
> Commons by-sa if someone is interested in using it.
>
> Does it work as a visual reference for Open Source? Do you think  people
> would use it in their project if it was promoted by two or three
> distributions, as aseigo proposed?

Hmmm. First of all, it is a very different idea from what aseigo
proposed. However, a common 'theme' for all foss
communities/projects/products is not a bad idea in itself. But I think
the 'tux' logo would be the best for that. Integrating logo's like you
do is an interesting idea but I doubt it'll work. The logo's are all a
bit too different, and besides, this looks more like a badge.

Still, thanks for thinking along.

And this is the wrong mailinglist for something like this - I'd
suggest kde-promo@kde.org or the kde artists mailinglist.

grtz

Jos
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