Very good idea!
Merry Christmas everyone
Peter
On 12/22/2012 7:16 PM, janI wrote:
I am no designer, but I have tried to make a suggestion to better explain
what I mean.
The current proposals all have squares / circles etc. and apart from the
original similarity with windows8 that has a special signal value.
A surface (square/circle etc) especially with a border, signal:
- limitation or positive a product that fullfills a single purpose
- closeness or positive a product the specialize in one function
AOO is in my mind much more, we are open at levels where normal products
can only dream to go:
- AOO is used in nearly every corner of the earth.
- AOO is open for translation to no matter how small a language group
- AOO is open for developers who want to hack their own specialized versions
- AOO is open for repackaging supplying the core of a wider extented
product.
I could go on.....
I think it is important that our logo signals this freedom and openess
after all we are OPEN office.
I know my design is not professional, it is NOT meant to be so please dont
judge it on that. It is simply a "thought out of the box", and hopefully it
can trigger some ideas.
You can see my "proposal" here:
http://people.apache.org/~jani/aoo.png
Have a nice christmas, whereever you are in the world.
Jan I.
On 21 December 2012 20:56, Michael Acevedo <vea1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for the links with logos Armin, I will examine them shortly...
Have a good afternoon...
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Armin Le Grand <armin.le.gr...@me.com
wrote:
Hi Michael,
this (https://svn.apache.org/repos/**asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/**
content/images/AOO_logos/<
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/images/AOO_logos/
)
might help, these are the checked-in logos. You can access it with a
browser. Look at the SVG directory there; I am not sure if the complete
gulls will be extractable; I fear they are 'cut', but maybe repaired by
using the other wing.
Looking forward to your suggestions :)
Sincerely,
Armin
On 21.12.2012 17:48, Michael Acevedo wrote:
Hello Armin,
I was tempted to make a rounded corner marquee for the current logo but
desisted of the idea after the vereditct of the Apple v. Samsung case
where
they were able to sue Samsung on using rounded corners for apps on their
flavor of android. Still I find the rounded corners tempting and is
actually reflected on the second logo that appeared on the last jpeg
file
I
sent yesterday.
All of these are good suggestions and I am now thinking of something on
updating the orb, maybe keeping the basic shape of the logo which is a
circle. I am rambbling here but I might be able to come up with
something
tangible during the next few hours.
Now the only thing I would need to find is an EPS or PSD
high-res version of the AOO gulls. Where can I find that?
Thanks for the suggestions.
On Friday, December 21, 2012, Armin Le Grand wrote:
Hi Michael,
thanks for investigating here. While I like the original orb and the
colored rects seem to lead to windows trademark stuff, what about:
- only slightly changing the AOO logo
- replacing the orb with a shape also very popular today
- keeping the color, keeping the seagulls
...but as shape, take the now famous 'app' form - a rounded rectangle
instead of the orb, using exactly the dimensions of app logos, and the
color blending of app logos (they use some 'bow' on the middle, making
the
upper half slightly lighter than the lower one).
Just as on iOS devices. Maybe looking nice ;-) Will look modern :-)
HTH!
Sincerely,
Armin
On 20.12.2012 02:33, Michael Acevedo wrote:
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<https:/**/lh3.googleusercontent.com/-**
lETVSrwcgJc/UNJpH6G1sxI/**AAAAAAAAABg/JnpNrXdRgUo/s653/**
AOO%25204%2520LOGO%2520v2-5%**2520Small%2520copy.jpg<
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<
https://lh4.**googleusercontent.com/-**uy8gU24uBZw/UNJpH8UiKiI/**
AAAAAAAAABk/xfXTQjO8iQg/s912/**AOO%25204%2520LOGO%2520v2-2.**png<
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-uy8gU24uBZw/UNJpH8UiKiI/AAAAAAAAABk/xfXTQjO8iQg/s912/AOO%25204%2520LOGO%2520v2-2.png
Hope you guys like it and Happy holidays!
--
Best,
Michael
