Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 05:24:22 -0500 From: "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <fteg@london.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org, advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Want a logo competition? Do it properly. Message-ID: <20050506102422.A309C4BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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Hey! I believe that the FreeBSD Project -- representing an open and democratic rule and not a totalitarian power -- should allow its users to decide what logo would be best suited. Hence, it would be in the best interest for the future of this project to put all logo submissions up for public display. This display should be complimented by a voting system. It is very important to get things right from the start. Look at the NetBSD Project and their new logo for instance. The public expressed great discontent about it, but only after the logo had sunken deep into the cycles of production and the mentalities of its contributors. Even though designers do this for free (and I am sure most act out of their love for the system and not because of the reward), the framework of their profession should still apply. That is, a contract protecting their rights from malicious intentions. The FreeBSD Project should acknowledge that the elected designer is entitled some say in the redesign of FreeBSD's website. Its coders would most likely not know the first thing about design, and hence compromise FreeBSD's image and its potential as conceived by the designer. If the website design also should be staged as a competition, it would be in the best interest of the project to let the identity designer cooperate with the website designer on the final outcome. We all want what is best for FreeBSD. Having said that, there should be no reason to fight over this. A working design contract in need of modification: http://www.aiga.org/resources/Content/1/4/6/documents/AIGA_contract.pdf -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www.bleed.no Enlightened @ http://www.home.no/barbershop/smart/sharon.pdf --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm
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