On 2/28/06, Kristian Vaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You like the logo? > > Speaking as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts, on behalf > of myself and a lot of other designers, the new FreeBSD logo is worthless. > > It's useless eyecandy. As if we don't have enough of that already. > > The logo competition wasn't held properly. It was only announced > internally within > FreeBSD's circles and not promoted through design universities, communities > and such. Also the people hosting the competition have acted rather arrogant > towards many that I know who just wanted to help. > > Second, only a few selected people (who may not know anything about design > as far as we're concerned) got to choose the logo. In my opinion, it is to > show > how the FreeBSD project itself neglects its real life users. > > The logo is, again, eyecandy. Though in some cases pleasant to look at, it > does > not fulfill the criterias of a modern day logo. These, however, do: > > http://youworkforthem.com/product.php?sku=P0370 > > Anyway Don Poynter, his e-mail is gak at tomsksoft dot com. >
I'd tend to agree with you, ever notice the arrow in the FedEx logo? I like everything I see here: http://logo-contest.freebsd.org/result/640-1.png but it's mostly just eyecandy. The only logo candidates I see on the page are the two tone black and white beastie heads. Anyways onto the FedEx logo, one of the best branding logos I can think of: http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000273.php -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
