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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com> on 2012/03/20 04:06:04 UTC
Re: [FORUMS] landing page/logo design
Dave and Drew,
Hey there, my name is Kevin and I'm new to the effort. I'll like to
contribute to the branding, UI styling and user experience moving forward.
I've taken a look at the logos proposal pages, and their are some great
elements. I'm having a hard time selecting which is most appropriate
because I'm unclear on the design brief. In other words, what is the
message? what are the requirements? and ultimately? what are the criteria
for success for the logo elements.
Is there a wiki page that captures this information? If not, could you
share your thoughts?
Regards,
Kevin
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, drew <dr...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 20:39 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I really want to change the logo on www.openoffice.org. Do you have a
> > candidate? Let's do it tomorrow.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > Hi Dave
> >
> > Well, it's late tomorrow now :)
> > - ah, I thought maybe a specific logo for th main site
> > - put a proposal on the wiki logo proposal[1] page
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Logo+Proposals
> > with the a tag line of "Free and Open productivity suite!" and feather.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > //drew
> >
>
> works for me! I think you should do it! :)
>
> >
> > [1]
> >
> >
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/logo-mainSite.png?version=2&modificationDate=1332106398782
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> MzK
>
> "Follow your bliss."
> -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
>
Re: [FORUMS] landing page/logo design
Posted by drew <dr...@baseanswers.com>.
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:06 +0800, Kevin Grignon wrote:
> Dave and Drew,
>
> Hey there, my name is Kevin and I'm new to the effort. I'll like to
> contribute to the branding, UI styling and user experience moving forward.
>
> I've taken a look at the logos proposal pages, and their are some great
> elements. I'm having a hard time selecting which is most appropriate
> because I'm unclear on the design brief. In other words, what is the
> message? what are the requirements? and ultimately? what are the criteria
> for success for the logo elements.
>
> Is there a wiki page that captures this information? If not, could you
> share your thoughts?
>
> Regards,
Hi Kevin, Dave, et al
@Kevin, thanks for the questions, very much.
Now if only there were some good answers...
Speaking only from what I've been putting up the idea(s) that I try to
keep in mind are:
Change as evolution over revolution.
One community member, Graham Lauder, has done I think I think are
putting forward the idea of more radical change, from the perspective of
visual branding. I believe he, maybe someone else, has started putting
together some wiki pages covering a branding language - that needs to be
expanded most likely.
Anyway - I mostly just wanted to ping back and say that this is
something that needs attention and look forward to new ideas and
efforts...so welcome!
Best wishes,
//drew
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, drew <dr...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 20:39 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I really want to change the logo on www.openoffice.org. Do you have a
> > > candidate? Let's do it tomorrow.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > Hi Dave
> > >
> > > Well, it's late tomorrow now :)
> > > - ah, I thought maybe a specific logo for th main site
> > > - put a proposal on the wiki logo proposal[1] page
> > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Logo+Proposals
> > > with the a tag line of "Free and Open productivity suite!" and feather.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > //drew
> > >
> >
> > works for me! I think you should do it! :)
> >
> > >
> > > [1]
> > >
> > >
> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/logo-mainSite.png?version=2&modificationDate=1332106398782
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > MzK
> >
> > "Follow your bliss."
> > -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
> >
Re: [FORUMS] landing page/logo design
Posted by Kevin Grignon <ke...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for the insight. I'll capture some thoughts and forward along shortly.
On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Grignon
> <ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dave and Drew,
>>
>> Hey there, my name is Kevin and I'm new to the effort. I'll like to
>> contribute to the branding, UI styling and user experience moving forward.
>>
>> I've taken a look at the logos proposal pages, and their are some great
>> elements. I'm having a hard time selecting which is most appropriate
>> because I'm unclear on the design brief. In other words, what is the
>> message? what are the requirements? and ultimately? what are the criteria
>> for success for the logo elements.
>>
>
> OpenOffice.org previously was an open source project sponsored by Sun,
> then Oracle. At that point it had its own branding, which you can see
> at http://www.openoffice.org. The project has come over to Apache,
> along with the trademarks and websites. We need to adapt it to Apache
> branding practices, which means we it must be called Apache
> <Something>. We voted to call it Apache OpenOffice (dropping the
> ".org" in the name)
>
> You can see the primary Apache branding elements on the
> http://www.apache.org website.
>
> The goal -- perhaps unstated -- was to update the existing
> OpenOffice.org logo to the new name and add a hint of Apache-ness to
> it.
>
> And as a follow up to that new branding, generate a set variations of
> that for the website, as well as special variations for use by 3rd
> parties to express support for the product, perhaps a "get Apache
> OpenOffice" or "Download Apache OpenOffice" or similar.
>
> So, the move to Apache has driven this change, and compliance with
> Apache branding guidelines would be one measure of success. As Kay
> said, evolution over revolution is another part. I don't think we're
> looking for a radically different logo from predecessor versions of
> OpenOffice.
>
> -Rob
>
>> Is there a wiki page that captures this information? If not, could you
>> share your thoughts?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, drew <dr...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 20:39 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I really want to change the logo on www.openoffice.org. Do you have a
>>>> candidate? Let's do it tomorrow.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>> Hi Dave
>>>>
>>>> Well, it's late tomorrow now :)
>>>> - ah, I thought maybe a specific logo for th main site
>>>> - put a proposal on the wiki logo proposal[1] page
>>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Logo+Proposals
>>>> with the a tag line of "Free and Open productivity suite!" and feather.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> //drew
>>>>
>>>
>>> works for me! I think you should do it! :)
>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>>
>>>>
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/logo-mainSite.png?version=2&modificationDate=1332106398782
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> MzK
>>>
>>> "Follow your bliss."
>>> -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
>>>
Re: [FORUMS] landing page/logo design
Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>.
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Kevin Grignon
<ke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave and Drew,
>
> Hey there, my name is Kevin and I'm new to the effort. I'll like to
> contribute to the branding, UI styling and user experience moving forward.
>
> I've taken a look at the logos proposal pages, and their are some great
> elements. I'm having a hard time selecting which is most appropriate
> because I'm unclear on the design brief. In other words, what is the
> message? what are the requirements? and ultimately? what are the criteria
> for success for the logo elements.
>
OpenOffice.org previously was an open source project sponsored by Sun,
then Oracle. At that point it had its own branding, which you can see
at http://www.openoffice.org. The project has come over to Apache,
along with the trademarks and websites. We need to adapt it to Apache
branding practices, which means we it must be called Apache
<Something>. We voted to call it Apache OpenOffice (dropping the
".org" in the name)
You can see the primary Apache branding elements on the
http://www.apache.org website.
The goal -- perhaps unstated -- was to update the existing
OpenOffice.org logo to the new name and add a hint of Apache-ness to
it.
And as a follow up to that new branding, generate a set variations of
that for the website, as well as special variations for use by 3rd
parties to express support for the product, perhaps a "get Apache
OpenOffice" or "Download Apache OpenOffice" or similar.
So, the move to Apache has driven this change, and compliance with
Apache branding guidelines would be one measure of success. As Kay
said, evolution over revolution is another part. I don't think we're
looking for a radically different logo from predecessor versions of
OpenOffice.
-Rob
> Is there a wiki page that captures this information? If not, could you
> share your thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Kay Schenk <ka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:41 PM, drew <dr...@baseanswers.com> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 20:39 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> >
>> > >
>> > > I really want to change the logo on www.openoffice.org. Do you have a
>> > candidate? Let's do it tomorrow.
>> > >
>> > > Regards,
>> > Hi Dave
>> >
>> > Well, it's late tomorrow now :)
>> > - ah, I thought maybe a specific logo for th main site
>> > - put a proposal on the wiki logo proposal[1] page
>> > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Logo+Proposals
>> > with the a tag line of "Free and Open productivity suite!" and feather.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> >
>> > //drew
>> >
>>
>> works for me! I think you should do it! :)
>>
>> >
>> > [1]
>> >
>> >
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/logo-mainSite.png?version=2&modificationDate=1332106398782
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> MzK
>>
>> "Follow your bliss."
>> -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
>>