[arch-dev-public] Freshen Arch's Graphical Identity (Logo)

[Jason Chu]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:48:25AM +0200, Damir Perisa wrote:
> Tuesday 16 October 2007, Dan McGee wrote:
>  | On 10/15/07, Damir Perisa <damir.perisa at solnet.ch> wrote:
>  | > Monday 15 October 2007, Simo Leone wrote:
>  | >  | Quick comment. We have lots of graphic artsy type people in
>  | >  | the community. Like the guy that started the new logo thread
>  | >  | on the bbs, he appears to possibly work in the field and
>  | >  | knows what he's doing.
>  | >  |
>  | >  | It's probably best to let the contest just be whatever, even
>  | >  | bad artists/non-pros may have some great ideas. But in the
>  | >  | end we should let someone who knows what they're doing polish
>  | >  | it up and stuff.
>  | >
>  | > i have slight experience in public relations and corporate
>  | > identity things... but not as a professional.
>  | >
>  | > the problem is that with this, you actually degrade the original
>  | > author and just take his/her idea to the pro to polish it up.
>  | > hmm... who is then the author of the final product?
>  |
>  | If we are an open source software distro, then surely we can have
>  | a strings-free logo as well. Its not that the original design is
>  | bad and that the original author can't help do the rest of the
>  | renditions, but surely we should honor submissions from anyone
>  | that looks to improve the winning logo into something that we can
>  | use across the board.
>  |
>  | -Dan
> 
> i know ... but tell this author that his work is not good enough and 
> that somebody else has to change it for us to be.

I'm not worried about this.

-1

Jason
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