[CREATE] LGM 2010 Website

[Craig]

Alexandre Leray wrote:
> Thanks Louis!
> 
> Sorry for being silent for a while: we do feel passionate about many of
> the issues discussed here, which is why our design looks the way it
> looks. Our first concern now is to get the LGM site launched sooner
> rather than later, so here's an attempt to go back to the concrete issue
> of the LGM site/logo:
> 
> First of all, we designed a visual/typographic identity to the yearly
> Libre Graphics Meetings (and not to all Libre Graphics projects).
> 
> To summarize (sorry if I misrepresent):
> 
> - it looks beautiful amazing etc. (some of you :-))
> - background yellow over-saturated (many of you)
> - concern about visual continuity (a.l.e, Tobias)
> - site looking 'too technical' (Tobias)
> - finding logo too generic (Tobias)
> 
> The main issue for OSP, is that we don't think continuity can be
> resolved by going back to the paint splash. We honestly feel it
> misrepresents the pleasure of using and developing Libre Graphics Tools
> and we have consciously decided to work with imagery that avoids such
> remediation.
> 
> So for us, it is a package deal! Diversity of projects and people
> present at LGM is important so the background represents the different
> materials we share between us (designers, developers, artists). Since
> the meeting is a yearly point of convergence, we thought it needed to
> mark the occasion by some kind of flag.
> 
> We think that the logo would look fantastic on LGM merchandising, it is
> a strong graphic signature and the site-background can be used in many
> other ways too.
> 


For me, the 2007 logo was the best so far
(http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/index.html). I am ok to dump
the splash, but to me, 3 slightly offset/differently sized squares says
nothing about the subject, doesn't look free and is not eye catching.

Craig