I'm having a lot of trouble visualizing this idea, Sarven. Could you sketch something up so that we can see it? Thanks!
ajs6f > On Jun 20, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Siegman, Tzviya <tsieg...@wiley.com> wrote: > > I think the phrase Sarven is looking for is skeuomorph > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph). > > Tzviya Siegman > Information Standards Lead > Wiley > 201-748-6884 > tsieg...@wiley.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sarven Capadisli <i...@csarven.ca> > Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2019 10:59 AM > To: dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Annotator logo?? > > On 19/06/2019 15.12, Benjamin Young wrote: >> Of the three colors, I think blue sends the "webby" message Sarven was >> after > > No. That's not what I meant. > > The proposed logo reflects annotation on paper-centric media. > > What I'm saying is that, "Annotator" or "Web Annotation" is about the Web > media. > > There is a mismatch. > > Underlining text on paper with a highlighter is analogous to using a floppy > disk to indicate a "save" operation. There are countless of this kind of > design thinking that looks backward instead of forward. > > I would suggest to revisit the logo with Web-centric goggles on but I'm > probably in the minority in saying that :) > > The logo doesn't need to overdo eg: > > "Apache" can be the selected text. "Annotator" can be like the annotation > body targeting Apache. > > ^ I don't mean to suggest that's a good idea - and the details are up to > whoever is designing - but only to bring the feel of the logo closer to what > we actually see on screen and interact with. > > > I'll leave you with: > > "The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation we tend > always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent > past. We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backward > into the future. Suburbia lives imaginatively in Bonanza-land." > > The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects, p74-75, 1967, Marshall > McLuhan > > > -Sarven > http://csarven.ca/#i
