Understood and agree, Jeremy. I officially withdraw my submissions to avoid cluttering the vote but the SVG is available here under CC0 for anyone who wants to reuse it elsewhere: https://sextant.space/#Dragon%20Drop%20Shield.svg
/Mike On Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 4:47:53 AM UTC-3 [email protected] wrote: > Thank you to everyone for the entries so far. I always enjoy these > competitions, and I appreciate the effort everyone puts into their designs. > And I love the spirit of cooperation and friendly competition. > > I would like to make a couple of small steers that might improve the > results: > > First, I think many of the entries are a bit too complex. Have a look at > tiddlywiki.com and check how small the artwork is displayed, particularly > on mobile: you'll see it in the splash screen, and in the HelloThere > tiddler. Many of the designs this time around have too much detail for an > icon of this size. Have a look at the other artwork badges to see how > simple they are in comparison to some of the entries here. > > Second, I think there is too much textual content in many of the entries. > Creating new slogans/taglines for TiddlyWiki is not part of the brief, and > just takes up a lot of space. The artwork is designed to break the flow of > a generally text-heavy site; packing more text into images makes things > worse. The text that needs to be there is "v5.2.0". Adding "TiddlyWiki" is > reasonable for the splash screen, but unnecessary within the HelloThere > tiddler, so I would recommend that if you include the word it be smaller > than the version number. > > Third, I would suggest being very careful with visual puns. While they can > be funny for the creator, they are often baffling for casual observers. > This is an inclusive, broad community, and so we should aim to communicate > clearly. > > The core of the brief is to make a visual representation of the new > release that includes the letters "v5.2.0". Next time, I'll take care to > raise these points in the original post. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > [email protected] > https://jermolene.com > > On 15 Jun 2021, at 08:29, Jon <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with Mohammad about the name change at some point . Apart from the > wiki aspect, I think the diminutive associations of 'tiddly' (and I know > this bit has been discussed before) are also in opposition to the grand > scale of what TW can do. > > Regards > Jon > > On Tuesday, 15 June 2021 at 07:57:21 UTC+1 Mohammad wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 7:51 PM springer <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Mohammad, >> >> >> Hi Springer, >> >> Many thanks for all your efforts! >> >> @all >> WOW, very exciting! I am really happy to see such an active community! I >> love you TiddlyWiki! >> >> [image: image.png] >> >> >> @Jeremy Ruston >> It would be great if you could decide on the name when you move from 5.1 >> to 5.2 >> at least I suggest using TW, or TW Platform, or TW framework, instead of >> Tiddlywiki! Tiddlywiki is MuCh MoRe ThAn a wiki! >> >> Best wishes >> Mohammad >> >> >>> All good suggestions! Though I usually don't embed images (and don't >>> think tiddlyhost has file directories for such), these images are small, >>> and presumably visitors would want to load them all anyway. So I've >>> embedded each entry so far, and also set up an overview of the final >>> entries from the 5.1.23 contest for inspiration and some sense of >>> continuity: >>> >>> https://tw-logo-contest.tiddlyhost.com/ >>> >>> On Sunday, June 13, 2021 at 11:47:50 PM UTC-4 Mohammad wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Springer! >>>> >>>> I love your artwork! very nice! >>>> >>>> Minor comments: >>>> 1. Why not host the image on >>>> https://tw-logo-contest.tiddlyhost.com/#unleash-your-fields and why >>>> use dropbox? >>>> 2. I remember you have hosted artworks for 5.1.23, it is good to see >>>> them on https://tw-logo-contest.tiddlyhost.com/#unleash-your-fields >>>> 3. It is good to have >>>> https://tw-logo-contest.tiddlyhost.com/#unleash-your-fields for past >>>> and future artworks competitions all in one place this not only archive >>>> all >>>> previous efforts but also give ideas to other contributors >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Best wishes >>>> Mohammad >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8eab0410-a6b7-4742-bff1-211f2375d0c2n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/8eab0410-a6b7-4742-bff1-211f2375d0c2n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e85df72a-8aef-4e62-967f-219fbd8e228fn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e85df72a-8aef-4e62-967f-219fbd8e228fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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