2007/10/13, Travis Willard <travis@archlinux.org>:
Hey all!
A few threads have started up in the last little while on the forums with "new" logo concepts for Arch - having read them, the most recent[1] made me start thinking that maybe we should put some thought into updating the logo and making it look a bit more professional. I personally would like to see a bit of an update there, something a bit snappier than our current logo[2] which, to me, is looking a bit dated and unprofessional.
Suggestions have been made to allow the community to participate, in both the creation of logos for the purpose of being the "new official front-page Arch logo" and also for voting which of the submissions should be used. I like the idea of a community-designed logo, and the activity in the thread linked below would indicate that the community is also pretty enthused at the thought, but we could always just do a Dev-vote to decide which of the submissions we'd prefer if we didn't want to make it a community vote.
In any case, I think this is worth investing time in, and I'm prepared to spearhead any initiative on this front. What I'm looking for now is your opinions - do you agree or disagree that maybe it's time to give the logo a sprucing-up? Any comments from the dev team? What's your opinion, Aaron, o benevolant overlord who is currently away on a great trip of sorts but will shortly return?
Looking forward to your responses. :)
[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38051 [2] http://bbs.archlinux.org/img/header.png
There were some other proposals as well. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28444 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=264087#p264087 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=288223#p288223 http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=288239#p288239 I like thayer.w's new logo, but I still think we should not change our Arch shape logo to new one. You can find my thoughts about logo change in the thread above. Nevertheless I don't like Tango-style variant of our logo much. My favourite is this: http://www.elfenbeinturm.cc/downloads/archlogo/archlinux-wp-original_logo_12... (taken from here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=28457) -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)