Re: Logos: everybody wants one but nobody seems to have any constructive comments. (was Re: Cool Fedora schwag idea)

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How about we steal the logo for pup and put a little bitty hat on him?

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 7/1/05, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >>this is something drawn about one year ago:
> >>http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/fedora_logo_hat.png
> > 
> > 
> > Sadly, its been deemed that anything with a hat is going to be unacceptable.
> > We need to get a bit more abstract.
> 
> I understand the reasoning for "no hat" (this does not means I agree) 
> but this have not stopped me to try a different hat, a more abstract 
> one: http://fedora.nicubunu.ro/simple_hat.png
> 
> > My suggestion is we have some sort of brainstorming excersize where
> > all we do is come up with a bunch of words or phrases that describe
> > fedora the project, and then go back and try to sketch out an icon to
> > match something in that word/concept association list.  Without some
> > sort of new focus, we are going to keep circling around "hats" because
> > its just too damn obvious.
> 
> Well, no hat, no mascot, no fun. I believe a logo should be fun, 
> something people will *want* to put on their wallpaper, t-shirt, cap 
> etc. I expect if the official logo will not be fun enough (like the 
> actual http://fedora.redhat.com/images/header-fedora_logo.png) people 
> will just use some alternative ones, which they will consider fun enough 
> (for example I know of some uses of my alternate hats - the ones 
> published at
> http://openclipart.org/cgi-bin/navigate/people/clothing/hats )
> 
> I am pretty bad at English so I guess I will wait for such a description 
> of the project to be done and see if I find something fun in it.
> 
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