Symbol ideas for the logo?

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Hi all,

a have question from a designer I asked some weeks ago, whether she is 
interested to participate in ourlogo contest.

She asked for a symbol which would be suitable for the software. A 
feather, although nice, is a little bit overused, she meant. Btw. she 
basically has no idea, what an LDAP/directory server is.

One of my ideas was to use a woman/girl with an apple/snake to resemble 
the old "Eve" name of the software, but this would be for insiders only 
and the symbol would not have any conjunction with our software.

The designer has already presented me a proposal which uses a highly 
simplified computer chip as a symbol. Despite the fact that our software 
has not that much to do with chips, the logo works perfectly to 
underline our embeddable aspect.

Does anybody have a good idea which symbol would best work for our 
software, or which aspect (like embeddable) would be interesting to cite 
with the logo?

Thanks in advance for you ideas,
     Stefan

Re: Symbol ideas for the logo?

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Stefan Zoerner a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> a have question from a designer I asked some weeks ago, whether she is 
> interested to participate in ourlogo contest.
>
> She asked for a symbol which would be suitable for the software. A 
> feather, although nice, is a little bit overused, she meant. Btw. she 
> basically has no idea, what an LDAP/directory server is.
>
> One of my ideas was to use a woman/girl with an apple/snake to 
> resemble the old "Eve" name of the software, but this would be for 
> insiders only and the symbol would not have any conjunction with our 
> software.
>
> The designer has already presented me a proposal which uses a highly 
> simplified computer chip as a symbol. Despite the fact that our 
> software has not that much to do with chips, the logo works perfectly 
> to underline our embeddable aspect.
>
> Does anybody have a good idea which symbol would best work for our 
> software, or which aspect (like embeddable) would be interesting to 
> cite with the logo?

Well, when I asked for a logo for my presentation in Dublin (ApacheCon 
EU), a friend of mine asked a friend of him (foaf ...) who created a 
really cool logo - attached -.

I like the idea of a tree, and you may connect it to the Tree of 
Knowledge - yo know, the apple,, tyhe snake, the Original sin, whatever 
...- if you need to add some reference to Eve. But when he designed the 
tree, it was just because I presented Ldap as a way to structure data as 
a tree of entrees - ooops entries - :)

My 2cts
Emmanuel

Re: Symbol ideas for the logo?

[Stefan Zoerner <sz...@apache.org>]

Alex Karasulu wrote:
> 
> Can she put up here logos into confluence or can you do it for her? This 
> way we can all comment on it and give her feedback.
> 

I asked Jutta (the designer) and she allowed me to put a version to 
Confluence, if I mark it as draft (it is still work in progress).

http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/DIRxSBOX/Logo+Proposals

Greetings, Stefan

Re: Symbol ideas for the logo?

[Alex Karasulu <ao...@bellsouth.net>]

Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a have question from a designer I asked some weeks ago, whether she is 
> interested to participate in ourlogo contest.
> 
> She asked for a symbol which would be suitable for the software. A 
> feather, although nice, is a little bit overused, she meant. Btw. she 
> basically has no idea, what an LDAP/directory server is.
> 
> One of my ideas was to use a woman/girl with an apple/snake to resemble 
> the old "Eve" name of the software, but this would be for insiders only 
> and the symbol would not have any conjunction with our software.

Yeah good point.  Funny thing is I was thinking about something similar 
when the old Eve name was there.

> The designer has already presented me a proposal which uses a highly 
> simplified computer chip as a symbol. Despite the fact that our software 
> has not that much to do with chips, the logo works perfectly to 
> underline our embeddable aspect.

Can she put up here logos into confluence or can you do it for her? This 
way we can all comment on it and give her feedback.

> Does anybody have a good idea which symbol would best work for our 
> software, or which aspect (like embeddable) would be interesting to cite 
> with the logo?

Here's a few odd ideas off the top of my head:

1). an upside-down tree
2). fractal of a tree growing downward
3). a hatchet with feathers on it (used for scalping by American Indians)
http://www.geocities.com/sileagle1/Clue/Tomahawk/tomahawk.jpg

4). ahhhh an American Indian tee pee with nodes (or feathers) in the teepee
See
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:hyUDlGm21q04qM:http://www.goses.org/IMAGES/Teepee.jpg

5). A picture of stefan zoerner :)

Ok I ran out of ideas fast.

Alex