That 'vision' thing (Tuomas has a logo proposal)

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:34, Keith Packard wrote:
> Jim Gettys asked Tuomas Kousmanen <tigert at gimp.org> to put together a 
> suggestion for a logo for our little project and he's come up with 
> something that looks quite nice to me.  If others agree, maybe we can 
> adopt it for the time being as an official logo.  Of course, my big plan 
> is to get some chotski generated from my web store so I can wear it around 
> town.
> 
> Here's his comments:
> 
>  "If you want to pass my comments (you know all those fancy designers
>    always have this "vision" thing that they had when doing the logo etc..
>    :) So the blue rounded rectangle represents "freedesktop" and there are
>    several groups of people working together and sharing ideas inside it
>    (the white rectangles inside)."
> 
> I've attached a small .png file; he's provided .svg so we can generate 
> images at any scale (of course, cairo was used to generate this .png).

Hmmm, I hate to quibble, since it's an attractive, professional looking
logo, but the immediate thought (at least after reading that comment)
was:

 "Who's the big rectangle?"

The three different sized rectangles don't really convey the idea
of different groups working together on an equal footing. Maybe three
different shapes - square, circle, triangle, say - would convey
that message better?

Regards,
						Owen