Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:04:37 +0100 From: Kristian Vaaf <vaaf@broadpark.no> To: Don Poynter <dzine@alaska.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: regarding new logo... Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060228115336.0221b858@broadpark.no> In-Reply-To: <8B838E3F-0421-446E-873F-1C8C5A12070C@alaska.com> References: <8B838E3F-0421-446E-873F-1C8C5A12070C@alaska.com>
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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. Kristian Vaaf, R&D | http://www.designcouncil.org.uk
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