Hey Jim, hope that you are well.
> On 12/04/08 04:37, Sean Sprague wrote:
>> Having now seen the t-shirt "in the flesh" on Peter Karlsson, I am
>> even more convinced that the designer of it must have been on acid.
>
> Yah, but some cool things came from that generation. :) Oh, it's not
> that bad. I sort of like it because it's different and something Sun
> would never do. Same deal with the bubbles. I'm not sure what the
> bubbles mean from a branding perspective, but at least they are
> different. Also, Sun has ADD when it comes to t-shirts. This shirt
> will be gone in no time just like the last 10. And for evidence of
> this just go to Derek Cicero's office. He's got every Sun-built
> OpenSolaris t-shirt that has ever existed hanging on the walls like
> banners in a hockey stadium. I really should take an image of that.
And some crap came out of the 60's too, like me and the Beatles. True,
the t-shirt is not that bad, but just visually confusing. I have also
always been confused about the message sent by the bubbles ("OpenSolaris
drowning in custard?"), but as a simple logo, it does work. As for
t-shirt ADD, Derek has a constantly-open request outststanding for a
bigger office, I guess. Clever Derek ;-) You should indeed get fotos.
> Anyway, we in the Tokyo OSUG plan to make our own t-shirt that fit our
> own personality (whatever that happens to become). As a gag for our
> first event, Shoji put together some shirts to get us going
> http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/tokyo_opensolais_user_group_nomikai.
> Again, this is a gag, but the point is to make your own shirts. Take
> the Sun stuff, sure, but why not create some local shirts? I know
> other groups have done this (Czech comes to mind) ....
As for regional t-shirt creation, we could really get kitsch, and have
famous monuments on the shirt - Tokyo could maybe have the Hanazono
Jinja shrine (I have never heard of it, but Google was my friend), the
Czech OSUG could have the beautiful Hrad?any, and LOSUG could have a
part-finished 2012 Olympics venue building-site (as most of them will
be, come 2012) ;-)
Regards... Sean.
