2009/2/17 a.l.e <ale.comp_06@xox.ch> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> hi jon <div class="Ih2E3d"> > I like the xox site, but I like the splate logo from last year. Can it > just stay the same? That font is trippy like tron...but catchy and > possibly might date our apps. > </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Regardless, site looks good, but hope you can use the pink logo or </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> make it blue...thast splate with solid circle is totally how we > operate and memorable unlike just a blue circle. > </div>the blue logo is basically the lgm 2007 logo. the main reason i went away from the 2008 is, that nobody could send me a vector version of it (i've found it in the www directory, now). one thing which was important to me, is to be able to use the logo  for other events related to libre graphics (like a booth with people from several of our projects) and to use it on different mediums (it's not easy to use the splate on letters... or make pins out of it...).</blockquote><div> I think what has inspired Kamila last year from the 2007 logo were the 3 rough colored lines that were surrounding the circle. She has blended this together to come up with the splate. In 2007, the colored logo was also an issue with printing costs (at least, for the t-shirt) and the black and white version was not so nice because of the various elements. It was a bit too busy as a design to be used in only one color. Kamila solved that issue by changing the design so she could use only one color without loosing punch and catchyness. I liked pretty much the 2007 and then the 2008 logos. But I know it is not an easy task to come up with a variation every year, so it might be interesting to stick with one logo... or maybe change just tiny bits of it, such as the color? I would have loved to see another variation — and maybe another color, yes... blue? green? don't know! Purple was ok for one year! :) Anyway, only thoughts. I don't mind really about the font but it has to stand out, to be thick and bold enough to be used in reversed type into a colored splate or circle. I liked pretty much the hand-made look (at least for the surrounding lines of 2007 and the splate of 2008) of both 2007 and 2008 logos. I realize I come up with more questions, in a way, than answers... But this is a bit out of reach for me, as I am not a designer! :) Maybe Andy would have something to say? Anyone else?! :) Louis </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> from the design part, i personally prefere simple straight lines, but if a majority wants the splate back, it will come back. what i can suggest, is to go for one of the existing logos for now and choose the next year's (and maybe definitive?) logo before the end of lgm 2009. it would also be nice, when proposing a new logo or a modification to an existing one, to attach an svg or a png which shows your ideas: i will put it in the download folder and everybody will be able to look at it. have fun a.l.e p.s.: this evening i will put the lgm 2008 logo in the download folder. </blockquote></div>