Logo contest

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

Heads-up,

I have been running a design contest on 99designs.com and as usual received
a lot of good contributions. 46 designs from 16 designers around the world.

In a couple of hours, I need to select finalists, and they get the idea is
that the finalists get another 3 days to improve, and I will set up a Poll
for us all to select the winner among the best of these.

I think I should simply drop (as I have done so far) everything that I
would be unhappy with, down to something like 5 designs to vote on.

WDYT?

Cheers
-- 
Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java

Re: Logo contest

[Georg Ragaller <qi...@dev.ragaller.org>]

Am 19. Juli 2017 07:21:22 MESZ schrieb Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>:
>Heads-up,
>
>I have been running a design contest on 99designs.com and as usual
>received
>a lot of good contributions. 46 designs from 16 designers around the
>world.
>
>In a couple of hours, I need to select finalists, and they get the idea
>is
>that the finalists get another 3 days to improve, and I will set up a
>Poll
>for us all to select the winner among the best of these.
>
>I think I should simply drop (as I have done so far) everything that I
>would be unhappy with, down to something like 5 designs to vote on.
>

Sounds great. I'm looking forward to see the selected ones.

Cheers, Georg



>WDYT?
>
>Cheers

Re: Logo contest

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
I recommend logo in SVG format so maybe it would be possible to edit
it with common tools like Inkscape, and if/when needed to hide/show
layers with text, background, the TM, etc ...
And even the version seen
[here](https://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/) ...

Last, ico files can be generated (even with multiple resolution images
inside), for example with ImageMagick or Gimp ...

As Paul said, even a Color Palette would be useful to use as a
reference for the site and other material; if not provided we could
extract it.
I suggest to store all finalised content somewhere in our source
control, both sources and most common used (generated) content.

Anyway let's wait for the Poll :-) .

Bye,
Sandro


2017-07-19 10:53 GMT+02:00 Paul Merlin <pa...@apache.org>:
> Le 2017-07-19 10:36, Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
>>
>> My previous experience,
>> SVG is delivered, I asked for font file as well and the designer
>> accommodated additional small changes. I doubt that an .ico file will be a
>> problem.
>>
>> Color; My instructions has been such that it should be suitable to stitch
>> on shirts. I really love the stitched approach, compared to he print,
>> which
>> fades and looks bad much sooner.
>
>
> Sounds great!
>
> About fonts.
> If it's a tailored font, then I suppose it will only contain the letters
> from "Apache Polygene", otherwise that's a lot of work.
> Or it will be an existing font, and in this case we must ensure its
> licensing is appropriate.
>

Re: Logo contest

[Niclas Hedhman <he...@gmail.com>]

I am aware of font licensing.

On Jul 19, 2017 16:53, "Paul Merlin" <pa...@apache.org> wrote:

> Le 2017-07-19 10:36, Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
>
>> My previous experience,
>> SVG is delivered, I asked for font file as well and the designer
>> accommodated additional small changes. I doubt that an .ico file will be a
>> problem.
>>
>> Color; My instructions has been such that it should be suitable to stitch
>> on shirts. I really love the stitched approach, compared to he print,
>> which
>> fades and looks bad much sooner.
>>
>
> Sounds great!
>
> About fonts.
> If it's a tailored font, then I suppose it will only contain the letters
> from "Apache Polygene", otherwise that's a lot of work.
> Or it will be an existing font, and in this case we must ensure its
> licensing is appropriate.
>
>

Re: Logo contest

[Paul Merlin <pa...@apache.org>]

Le 2017-07-19 10:36, Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
> My previous experience,
> SVG is delivered, I asked for font file as well and the designer
> accommodated additional small changes. I doubt that an .ico file will 
> be a
> problem.
> 
> Color; My instructions has been such that it should be suitable to 
> stitch
> on shirts. I really love the stitched approach, compared to he print, 
> which
> fades and looks bad much sooner.

Sounds great!

About fonts.
If it's a tailored font, then I suppose it will only contain the letters 
from "Apache Polygene", otherwise that's a lot of work.
Or it will be an existing font, and in this case we must ensure its 
licensing is appropriate.

Re: Logo contest

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

My previous experience,
SVG is delivered, I asked for font file as well and the designer
accommodated additional small changes. I doubt that an .ico file will be a
problem.

Color; My instructions has been such that it should be suitable to stitch
on shirts. I really love the stitched approach, compared to he print, which
fades and looks bad much sooner.



On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Paul Merlin <pa...@apache.org> wrote:

> Le 2017-07-19 07:21, Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
>
>> Heads-up,
>>
>> I have been running a design contest on 99designs.com and as usual
>> received
>> a lot of good contributions. 46 designs from 16 designers around the
>> world.
>>
>> In a couple of hours, I need to select finalists, and they get the idea is
>> that the finalists get another 3 days to improve, and I will set up a Poll
>> for us all to select the winner among the best of these.
>>
>> I think I should simply drop (as I have done so far) everything that I
>> would be unhappy with, down to something like 5 designs to vote on.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>
> Great!
>
> What are the deliverables?
>
> - Logo + Name
> - Logo alone
>
> I would prefer a vector format like SVG so we can scale the logo as we see
> fit.
> Producing reasonably sized bitmaps from the SVG should be easy for us to
> do.
>
> Ideally we would also get a .ico file, such small instances may need
> manual refinement to show up nicely.
> We can also handle this ourselves from a SVG if it's unpractical to ask
> for it.
>
> If we want to revamp the website according to the future logo we'll need
> to extract a color scheme from it.
> If the selected logo only has plain colors it will be easy, if it has
> gradients or any other texture then we may want to ask the designer to
> provide a selected color scheme that make sense with the logo.
> Again, we could also handle this ourselves if it's unpractical to ask for
> it.
>
> Thank you Niclas for pushing this forward.
> I can't wait to see the proposals!
>
> Cheers
>
>


-- 
Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer
http://polygene.apache.org - New Energy for Java

Re: Logo contest

[Paul Merlin <pa...@apache.org>]

Le 2017-07-19 07:21, Niclas Hedhman a écrit :
> Heads-up,
> 
> I have been running a design contest on 99designs.com and as usual 
> received
> a lot of good contributions. 46 designs from 16 designers around the 
> world.
> 
> In a couple of hours, I need to select finalists, and they get the idea 
> is
> that the finalists get another 3 days to improve, and I will set up a 
> Poll
> for us all to select the winner among the best of these.
> 
> I think I should simply drop (as I have done so far) everything that I
> would be unhappy with, down to something like 5 designs to vote on.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Cheers

Great!

What are the deliverables?

- Logo + Name
- Logo alone

I would prefer a vector format like SVG so we can scale the logo as we 
see fit.
Producing reasonably sized bitmaps from the SVG should be easy for us to 
do.

Ideally we would also get a .ico file, such small instances may need 
manual refinement to show up nicely.
We can also handle this ourselves from a SVG if it's unpractical to ask 
for it.

If we want to revamp the website according to the future logo we'll need 
to extract a color scheme from it.
If the selected logo only has plain colors it will be easy, if it has 
gradients or any other texture then we may want to ask the designer to 
provide a selected color scheme that make sense with the logo.
Again, we could also handle this ourselves if it's unpractical to ask 
for it.

Thank you Niclas for pushing this forward.
I can't wait to see the proposals!

Cheers