Good Evening Imacat,
Here's my personal insight on the logo decisions when it comes to the
amount of squares and coloring scheme. The first is that I tried for hours
how to integrate six squares into the logo and the problem that arose was
that the logo looked too crowded. As a result I had to strike a compromise,
pick the four applications or modules that embody an office suite in
general which are the word processor, spreadsheet, presentation module, and
database creator. OpenOffice is the only office suite that comes to memory
that does have a formula editor and a radically unique graphics drawing
program (closest analogue is Microsoft Publisher but Draw is a different
animal).
Moving now to the color scheme, the colors for the squares that
represent the office suite core components were inspired upon the AOO start
center which has icons for the word, spreadsheet, presentation, and
database modules. If you look closely, each of the icons there have a color
code, the Writer document icon has blue accents, Calc document icon has
green accents, Impress icon has orange accents, and the Base icon has
violet accents. Therefore, it was a logical decision to color the squares
accordingly.
When it comes to the lighting of the logo... I beg to differ. I'll
need to sleep over that to see whether or not it is worth considering
tweaking the lighting. In my honest opinion, I think the current lighting
works fine for the logo.
Thanks for the feedback.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:31 PM, imacat <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> wrote:
> Some honest thoughts:
>
> 1. These flat 3D plates feel a little weird. The lights of the
> plates has the focus effect, but the lights of the plates have not.
>
> 2. I cannot see the connection of these plates with our four
> components easily, as the colors of Writer, Calc, Impress and Base are
> not Blue, Orange, Green and Purple. And we have other components such
> as Math and Draw.
>
> 3. The directions of the lights are contradictory. The lights of
> the orb come from above, while the lights of the plates (and also the
> plate of the orb) come from right.
>
> But still, thanks you very much for this great effort.
>
> On 2012/12/20 09:33, Michael Acevedo said:
> > Greetings to the AOO Team!
> >
> > Hello, after a few months of inactivity I've decided to get back in touch
> > with the AOO community. First, congratulations to the AOO team on
> > a successful graduation into a top-level Apache project from the Apache
> > Incubator.
> >
> > Now the reason on why I am writing this email is to formally submit a
> logo
> > proposal for the next version of the Apache OpenOffice 4.X logo.
> > Previously, I submitted an initial logo on the Apache OpenOffice Google+
> > community but I went back to the drawing board and created a second
> version
> > of the logo that both pays respect to the previous Apache OpenOffice orb,
> > but modernizes the look of the overall logo by adding 4 colored squares
> > that represent the four corners of our office suite (Writer, Calc,
> Impress,
> > and Base) and utilizing a streamlined font.
> >
> > Without further introductions, below I present my official submission for
> > the Apache OpenOffice 4.X logo.
> >
> > This first logo, is the proposed official logo for the project that would
> > be used for our webpage and some other materials.
> >
> >
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lETVSrwcgJc/UNJpH6G1sxI/AAAAAAAAABg/JnpNrXdRgUo/s653/AOO%25204%2520LOGO%2520v2-5%2520Small%2520copy.jpg
> >
> > There's a secondary logo, which is basically the same logo but changes
> the
> > proportion of the OpenOffice orb making it better suited for the splash
> > screen that appears at the launch of the application.
> >
> >
> https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-uy8gU24uBZw/UNJpH8UiKiI/AAAAAAAAABk/xfXTQjO8iQg/s912/AOO%25204%2520LOGO%2520v2-2.png
> >
> > Hope you guys like it and Happy holidays!
> >
>
>
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