[Clipart] And the Winner is... + Need Independent Verification

Sun Sep 5 11:18:01 PDT 2004

Bryce Harrington wrote:

> Congrats Andreas, and thanks Jonadab and Jon for handling the voting.
> I'm looking forward to seeing our new logo in use.  :-)
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> Bryce
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Thank you Bruce!
I´m glad that you all liked the logo and I hope you will get lot of use 
out of it.
The other submissions were also very nice and I´m sorry that I´m so lazy 
and never voted on any of them.
- Andreas

> On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
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>> Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org> writes:
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>>> The winner by my vote is:
>>>
>>> Andreas Nilssons
>>> http://openclipart.org/clipart//OCALLogos/open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg 
>>>
>>> which is the same as ocallogo.svg
>>>
>>> The one complaint and something which needs to be reworked, which I can
>>> take on is the text next to the graphic.
>>>     
>>
>> For the small icon-sized versions, we don't need the text.  Here is a
>> zipfile containing PNGs at 16, 32, 48, and 64 pixels, and an ICO that
>> contains 16, 32, and 48 pixel versions:
>> http://openclipart.org/incoming/open_clip_art_library_logo_contest_winner_01.zip 
>>
>>
>> The 16-pixel versions do not have the shadow.  There are also SVG
>> intermediate forms, which are nicely square and so could be used if
>> SVG icons are wanted.  (Do any current GUIs employ SVG icons
>> directly?)
>>
>> The original version with the text (reworked as desired) can be used
>> to generate larger images for use on the website, but I'll let someone
>> else handle that end of things, since reworking the text (beyond
>> merely removing it) is more than I want to undertake really.
>>
>>   
>>
>>> Please, one other person check my work
>>>     
>>
>> Based on the thirteen voters in your votes.txt, here is what I get:
>>
>> Round 1, in order (except for exact URI duplicates):
>> 2 open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
>> 1 ocallogo.svg
>> 2 open_clipart_library_proposal_02_gallery_01.png
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_09.svg 1 
>> open_clipart_library_proposal_01_gallery_01.svg
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_07.svg
>> 1 ocal_logo_01_01.svg (1 assumed)
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_08.svg
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
>> 1 ocal_logo_0.5_01.svg
>>
>> Combining ones that are obviously very similar...
>> ocallogo.svg is extremely similar to open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
>> open_clip_art_logo_07.svg is very similar to open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>>  and also open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
>> open_clip_art_logo_09.svg is similar to open_clip_art_logo_08.png
>>
>> Round 1 grouped by similarity:
>>
>> 3 for Nilsson's yellow orange and red snapshots:
>>  2 open_clip_art_library_logo_01.svg
>>  1 ocallogo.svg
>>
>> 2 for Fitzsimon's open window:
>>  2 open_clipart_library_proposal_02_gallery_01.png
>>
>> 3 for Phillips' scissors:
>>  1 open_clip_art_logo_06.svg
>>  1 open_clip_art_logo_07.svg
>>  1 open_clip_art_logo_10.svg
>>
>> 2 for Stuber's open box:
>> 1 open_clip_art_logo_09.svg 1 open_clip_art_logo_08.svg
>>
>> 1 each for three others:
>> 1 open_clipart_library_proposal_01_gallery_01.svg
>> 1 ocal_logo_01_01.svg (1 assumed)
>> 1 ocal_logo_0.5_01.svg
>>
>> So for round two, we're down to the four that got multiple votes:
>> Nilsson's snapshots, Fitzsimon's window, Phillips' scissors, or
>> Stuber's box.  Based on that...
>>
>> Vote  1 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>> Vote  2 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>> Vote  3 goes for Fitzsimon's window, first choice.
>> Vote  4 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote  5 goes for Stuber's box, first choice.
>> Vote  6 goes for Fitzsimon's window, first choice.
>> Vote  7 does not vote for any of those (but, I like several of them...)
>> Vote  8 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote  9 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice.
>> Vote 10 goes for Stuber's box, first choice.
>> Vote 11 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote 12 does not vote for any of those.
>> Vote 13 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>>
>> So the only one that picks up a vote here is Nilsson, who picks up
>> vote 9 on second choice.
>>
>> That makes it...
>>  4 votes for Nilsson's snapshots
>>  2 votes for Fitzsimon's window
>>  3 votes for Phillips' scissors
>>  2 votes for Stuber's box.
>>
>> The two-vote choices don't make the cut, so it's between Nilsson's
>> snapshots and Phillips' scissors...
>>
>> Vote  1 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>> Vote  2 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>> Vote  3 doesn't vote for either of those.
>> Vote  4 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote  5 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice
>> Vote  6 doesn't vote for either of those.
>> Vote  7 bowed out in the previous round.
>> Vote  8 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote  9 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, second choice.
>> Vote 10 goes for Phillips' scissors, second choice.
>> Vote 11 goes for Phillips' scissors, first choice.
>> Vote 12 bowed out in the previous round.
>> Vote 13 goes for Nilsson's snapshots, first choice.
>>
>> So Nilsson's box picks up vote 5 on second choice, and Phillips'
>> scissors pick up vote 10 on the second choice.  As near as I can tell,
>> that brings us to the same conclusion you already reached:
>>
>>  5 votes for Nilsson's snapshots
>>  4 votes for Phillips' scissors
>>
>> It should be noted that several of the "didn't vote for those" votes
>> were voting for other images that didn't make the cut in the same
>> round, so this was definitely a close thing.  One person voting for
>> the same images in a different order could have tipped the scales.
>>
>> But I'm satisfied with the winning image, despite that I didn't
>> personally vote for it.  It seems to come out pretty decent even at
>> rather small sizes:
>> http://openclipart.org/incoming/open_clip_art_library_logo_contest_winner_01.zip 
>>
>>
>> It'll look okay in greyscale too.  And as I commented in another
>> thread, it reminds me of a handful of Polaroids, so it should have
>> pretty good recognition value.  It's a good choice.
>>
>>
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