It's great we're having this discussion and we came up with a lot of
great ideas through it. However, it is unclear how we proceed from here.
Certainly, we can't let designers work with an open-ended discussion on
the type of mascot.
Personally, I'm fine with _any_ kind of mascot, as long as it is made by
a decent designer. The respectable designer I'm talking to was very
generous to donate these sketches for free. I don't think that this is
to be expected at all. Coming back to the original idea of hiring
multiple designers, I don't see how we will pay those designers to all
come up with a logo, unless we all donate money.
The sketches I've sent might not look like much because there is still a
decent process involved in coming up with the final logo which looks
good in different sizes, possibly with many iterations. So far I've
tried to incorporate as many of the suggestions here, but for the sake
of protecting the designer, I think I'll have to stop doing that. It
simply won't work.
How to proceed from here? I think _any_ professionally executed logo
will do, this is really more about the community agreeing for the
greater good. Ultimately, I think the PMC might have to decide on how to
proceed here.
Cheers,
Max
On 15.11.19 13:59, Hannah Jiang wrote:
I also vote for firefly.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 1:38 PM Valentyn Tymofieiev <valen...@google.com
<mailto:valen...@google.com>> wrote:
I like the firefly sketch a lot, it's my favorite so far.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:58 PM Robert Bradshaw
<rober...@google.com <mailto:rober...@google.com>> wrote:
#37 from the sketches was the cuttlefish, which would put it at
(with
4 votes) the most popular so far. I do like the firefly too.
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:03 PM Gris Cuevas <g...@apache.org
<mailto:g...@apache.org>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone, so exciting to see this convo taking off!
>
> I loved Alex's firefly! -- it can have so many cool
variations, and as a stuffed animal is very original.
>
> Other ideas I had are a caterpillar because it looks like a
data pipeline, lol or the beaver!
>
> Feedback on the current sketches.
> - They resemble a lot either the Octocat or Totoro [1]
> - I'd like to see something that is completely new and
original, pancakes from gRPC is an example[2]
> - Something more caricaturesque is better, since we can dress
it up and modify it
>
> To move forward, it seems that the animals that were winners
in this thread are:
>
> Beaver (3)
> Firefly (3)
> Lemur or votes on sketches (3)
> Cuttlefish (2)
> Hedgehog (1)
> Salmon (1)
>
> So let's focus the design proposals on the three winners:
beaver, firefly and lemur.
> I'd like to see more options on beavers and fireflies, the
current sketch options I think are based on the cuttlefish and
the lemur (?)
>
> I think it's a good idea to get sketches from multiple
designers, since like someone else pointed out, we'll get
variations based on their personal styles, and someone else
mentioned here that we have teams/companies
<https://teams.googleplex.com/u/companies> with designers in
their teams, so let's take advantage of that as well :)
>
> I'd suggest to fork the conversation into a call for sketched
and we vote on that.
>
> [1]
https://www.google.com/search?q=totoro&sxsrf=ACYBGNTFW6vq76cHp05g4vBaR-SVJNI1iw:1573674471669&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiTwICf-uflAhUKHqwKHVtzAykQ_AUIEigB&biw=1440&bih=735
> [2]
https://www.google.com/search?q=pancakes+grpc&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwixgqjV-uflAhUBOawKHX2pAfsQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=pancakes+grpc&gs_l=img.3...13774.22674..22826...10.0..0.112.1818.13j6......0....1..gws-wiz-img.....10..35i39j0j0i67j35i362i39j0i10j0i5i30j0i8i30.hNtaBfSYNv8&ei=WV7MXfHxIYHysAX90obYDw&bih=735&biw=1440
