Re: Logo considerations

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Timothy S. Nelson

Date:

March 24, 2009 16:44

Subject:

Re: Logo considerations

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alpine.LRH.1.10.0903251027270.3213@gwalcmai.nelson.org.au

 	Firstly, I'd like to speak in favour of the idea of designing a logo 
for Perl6, and then creating a Rakudo logo based on the Perl6 logo and the 
Parrot logo.  From here on, I'll be addressing the Perl6 logo.

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Larry Wall wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote:
> : 2009/3/24 Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>:
> : > http://www.wall.org/~larry/camelia.pdf

 	I vote for this at the moment, but I'd still like to see other 
proposals now that we have some more direction.

> Not picking on you in particular, but I think there's a tendency to
> go way too abstract in most of these proposals.  I want something
> with gut appeal on the order of Tux.  In particular I want a logo
> for Perl 6 that is:
>
>    Fun
>    Cool
>    Cute
>    Named
>    Lively
>    Punable
>    Personal
>    Concrete
>    Symmetric
>    Asymmetric
>    Attractive
>    Relational
>    Metamorphic
>    Decolorizable
>    Shrinkable to textual icon
>    Shrinkable to graphical icon

 	These criteria seem to eliminate all of the other existing logo 
proposals.  However, some of them could be redesigned to fit these criteria. 
I'd like to ask, though, that all future logos include both the text and the 
graphical version.

> In addition, you can extend just about anything by attaching "P6"
> wings to it.  I also take it as a given that we want to discourage
> misogyny in our community.  You of the masculine persuasion should
> consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side.  :)

 	In spite of what you said about the butterfly being enormous, I'd like 
to suggest that one advantage of having a butterfly is that we could 
believably have it sitting on top of the Parrot (enormous parrot too?).

 	In response to those asking for a professional designer, I'd like to 
see us go around a few more times here, and see if we can't come up with at 
least a good concept that could hopefully be used/stylised by a real graphic 
designer, so that we might end up with something like the Parrot logo.

 	Now that Larry's provided some criteria, let round 2 of the design 
process begin!

 	:)

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