To all, I would re-examine when EQUAL started using this motif and branding image. Equal isnt generally kept up with in standard design blogs so I cant really find the date of the change. But I have seen plenty of equal boxes that DONOT use this design or standard. I think it may be a bit of mirror thinking in the regards to the designers of the equal packaging. Honestly I cant see a relationship between the colored dots and the actual product, where the dots in OOo are representative of the software within the package. I do not think there would be much of a LEGAL argument here, the design is simply a motif used by equal(a food product) compared to a representative element of a software package. I LIKE how OOo uses the dots, and unless we really want to engineer a new concept I think we should keep it.
-Dennis On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Bernhard Dippold < bernh...@familie-dippold.at> wrote: > Hi Steven, Nik, all, > > Steven Shelton schrieb: > > >> On 1/7/2010 7:31 AM, Nikash V. SINGH wrote: >> >>> The similarities are FAR too coincidental, and unintentional or >>> not, this issue needs to be addressed otherwise it could lead to >>> legal issues, or more pressing from my point of view, it would >>> compromise the integrity of the Art project. >>> >> >> I don't really see this as a major issue. At least in the States >> (and I'm assuming its similar elsewhere), there could only be "legal >> issues" of the similarity of the logos would tend to create >> confusion in the minds of consumers. I don't think there's any way >> one could make any realistic argument that such is the case here. >> > > I agree with you, Steven, on this point, but looking at the other point > Nik raises here, we should take the chance to use this coincidence to > drop at least the shape of the "dots" when we look for branding elements > to be kept for the new overall design. > > Nik wrote: > >> By looking at that image, I think it should be obvious that Equal >>> has more right to use these motifs than OpenOffice.org does [...] >>> >>> I feel strongly that the coloured dots should not be added to the >>> OOo identity, not with such little relevance or thought [...] >>> >> > I don't think that we can be called "brand borrowers" just because of the > dots (the wire gulls have been compared to Adobe IIRC), but they don't serve > well for a strong branding identity. > > What I wanted to say is, that the community's vote has brought us the OOo3 > splash screen that we use for over a year now. As long as we don't have a > general branding identity I want to keep the elements we have - but the new > project will probably be a good reason to replace weak elements by stronger > ones without waiting for OOo4. > > > Right now OOo is plagued with arbitrary Design motifs; >>> >> >> - The mishaped gulls > >> - The wireframe gulls (which are showing their age > >> as Design elements) >>> >> >> - The "reverse-s" which is used ad-hoc per design item > >> - A "3" which appears every so often with no fixed > >> location, scale or typeface >>> >> >> I am totally on-board with you on these issues, however. >> > > Same with me - there is quite a lot of work to do... > > Let's find out what can be reached with Sun in the meeting next week. > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: art-unsubscr...@marketing.openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: art-h...@marketing.openoffice.org > >
