[nycbug-talk] www revision

[Isaac Levy]

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George, Jeff, All,

While I agree in spirit with the NetBSD-like idea (and can immeadiately 
see all the various mascots hanging out on the same page- and have 
never seen that before...), I feel compelled to humbly echo Jeff's 
sentiment re. graphic simplicity.

I'm going to put a shout in for graphic, as even the NetBSD folks are 
soon retiring their logo here-

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-advocacy/2004/01/14/0001.html

VERY hard to maintain, though a lovable and awesome logo.

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Here's what I want to offer in as positive alternative:

I'd shoot for something very graphic and simple that can reproduce well 
at small sizes even, and do some hysterics with mascots' graphics 
ad-hock on the site as time goes on- (mascots hanging out on the 
subway, top of empire state building, etc...)
Much fun can be had there I feel- but it's NO fun to have to get some 
flyer out the door and spend a few hours at copy-shop getting it to 
look right...

Orgs that have various people who will need to use the logo for things 
over time, can do so without someone really managing it if it's kept 
simple enough.  Makes me think of early Russian Constructivist Graphic 
Design, lots of clean lines, easy to mechanically reproduce.  Magazines 
of that era like 'Novyi Lief' all kept consistency in graphic identity 
(really beautiful stuff), though they were run mostly by volunteers who 
would come and go...

Much like the design of the BSD's themselves, good foundations lead to 
natural development based on understanding via osmosis...  Clean 
graphic framework can be thought of as similar.

My .04cents, for however the logo ends up, I'll proudly sport it-

Rocket-
.ike



On Jan 25, 2004, at 3:57 PM, PUTAMARE wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2004, at 3:13 PM, G. Rosamond wrote:
>> 1.  new logo
>> one that covers all the bsd family, including darwin & osx.  our 
>> current
>> one is just the fbsd beastie.  and obviously nyc overtones. ..
>
> My advice here is to keep it simple. Abandon the expensive to print 
> 4-color animal logos (a cockroach waving a gun with beastie tattooed 
> on its arm anybody?) so popular with *NIX user groups as they'll only 
> cause you grief in the long run. Although I constantly kid Hans about 
> his choice of font (& color), I think the NYPHP logo does a pretty 
> good job: immediately recognizable & cheap and easy to print.
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