The old Blender logo has been hanging around for (as for as I know) just as long as the UI/Theme has been. And now the UI/Theme has changed drastically, and I wonder whether it might be time for a change to the Blender logo. Although I don't believe we would have to change it all that drastically, I think a subtle change would go over well.
The first change (and a more general one) that I would propose for any new logo, would be to get rid of the blue colour, which that circle in the middle currently is. Although originally that same blue (or something near the same) was the default world background as well as being the colour of many buttons, now there is hardly any blue in the default theme of Blender. Therefore to go in line with new theme of Blender, at least a new colour scheme for the logo might be nice, using colours like grey and orange. The second change (and this one would be more specific) is to get rid of the rounded edges on the logo, and on any new shape that people might come up with. The rounded shapes seem to give the logo a bit more childish/not-so-serious look which doesn't seem to meld with Blender's new look. It would be nice to have some sharper edges (I tried to do this a little on the mockup I linked to). All of this is just my own opinion and I would welcome anyone else's thoughts on the matter, to the point of whether or not we even need a new logo for Blender. I understand that changing it would require a lot of work, including reworking at least two of the Blender icons, not to mention the actual designing of a new logo. Another effect of this would be some disassociation of the old Blender icon with the new Blender, instead it would probably strengthen the ties to the older version (2.4x, etc.). This might not be a bad thing though, it would let people know the difference, between Blender 2.5 and Blender 2.4, they could look at the icon and immediately tell the difference. I did some very quick mockups of what a new Blender logo might look like: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/7940 http://www.pasteall.org/pic/7941 *note this is just a mockup, if there was to be a new one, it could use a completely different shape, etc. However I did like the way the colours in this one were complimentary. Just something for consideration. Cheers, Jonathan _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers