Re: [DS-discuss]Logos

[Ramesh Pallikara]

as far as i can remember, Vytautas \"Vytzka\" Juodis wrote:

> Hello, gentlemen,
>  
>
> > > definitely!  it  would rather  be nice if  you
> > >      
> > find  some mythological
> >    
> >
> > > character  that  does not  frighten  children 
> > >      
> > away!   ;) My  personal
> >    
> >
> > > suggestion would be some sort of a bull-like /
> > >      
> > gnu-like character that
> >    
> >
> > > symbolises the  Free Software Movement and also 
> > >      
> > shows some connection
> >    
> >
> > > between education / learning related stuff and
> > >      
> > freedom of computing 
> >    
> Ah, I usually like frightening mascots more, but if
> we show it to children, then let it be. 
maybe our frightening mascots could still be used for t-shirts, if not 
for the logo as such

>  
>
> > Guys I have a friend of mine named Gokul who has
> > great knack of doing
> > animations and yeah is a fan GNU/linux.
> >    
> Well, I guess Gokul is better artist than me then :).
> (You'll understand what I mean when we compare). 
>
> A question to Rahul Sundaram - who on earth is Swan?
> I'm sorry I've never heard about it. 
>
> A note about T-Shirts. Maybe it would be possible to
> make football-like one, I mean of two colors (say,
> green and orange? - I'm really sorry, but how's
> officially called that orange-like color in your flag?
that'll be "saffron" color

> I'm not from India, you see), numbers and *our* names
<just curious>
      btw , where r u from  ?????
</just curious>

> on backs? It drives me crazy to imagine, that some
> folk at some contest may be awarded with T-Shirt with
> number 11 and name 'Vytzka' :P. Actually I don't know,wheather we'll be making 
> all the same T-Shirts, or few
actually i dont think that will be the case,
IMHO i think it(t-shirt) will be some kind of promo material that'll 
shout about GNU and Freedom
maybe, Suraj can send us some links of earlier tshirt-stuff (i was 
actually waiting for better designs, so i didn't order one :-( ... but 
nothing else has turned out yet !!!!

maybe others can enlighten us more !!!!!!

> distinct types, so maybe it's a nonsense what I've
> said. 
>
> Another offer for logo - maybe a viking in battle
> armor, with horned helmet (= a bull???) and two headed
> axe (for hacking ;)). Or maybe even better - maybe a
> kid viking? With a huge (for him) helmet and just
> lifting an axe? You choose. 
me votes for the viking kid - symbolizing a newbie GNUHead 
Hacker/enthusiast or something like that
i personally think this is a very good idea 

here's a piece from linus's mail as to why he chose a penguin for a 
logo. ignoring the "penguin" part, i think the logic that he explains ( 
of using something character-like is a  good thing over an abstract logo 
) holds good

<quote>

As to why use a penguin as a logo? No good reason, really. But a logo 
doesn't really ave to _mean_ anything - it's the association that 
counts. And I can think of many worse things than have linux being 
associated with penguins.

Having a penguin as a logo also gives more freedom to people wanting to 
use linux-related material: instead of being firmly fixed with a 
specific logo (the triangle, or just "Linux 2.0" or some other abstract 
thing), using something like a penguin gives people the chance to make 
modifications that are still recognizable.

So you can have a real live penguin on a CD cover, for example, and 
people will get the association. Or you can have a penguin that does 
something specific (a Penguin writing on wordperfect for the WP Linux 
CD, whatever - you get the idea).

Compare that to a more abstract logo (like the windows logo - it's not a 
bad logo in itself). You can't really do anything with a logo like that. 
It just "is".

Anyway, go to "http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~lewing/linux/"; 
<http://www.isc.tamu.edu/%7Elewing/linux/> for some nice examples..

Linus

</quote>

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