Hmm now that I tried with the blue owl... I actually quite like removing the outlines:
http://people.apache.org/~stephenc/maven-logo-contest/maven-owl-selection2.png D is now a tie for me with B On 22 November 2014 at 10:37, Stephen Connolly < stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Saturday, November 22, 2014, Mirko Friedenhagen < > mfriedenha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 20, 2014 10:42 PM, "Stephen Connolly" < >> stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote: >> < >> > Java's mascot is called Duke... I don't think Sun trademarked Durk nor >> have >> > Oracle (yet... at least to my knowledge) >> >> Do not call for it ;-) >> I like the owl B (the style reminds me of a certain butler, though :-) ) > > > For any "cartoony" style mascot with black outlining of the colours, > you're going to get a similar look. > > I didn't like the look when I removed the black outlines, and going > monotone makes it hard to express the owlness > > My reason for favouring a cartoony style is that a small number of solid > colours with black outlines tends to print on t-shirt etc much better than > gradients etc. > > I like the http://cloudstack.apache.org monkey mascot. With it's skinny > body it can pull off the two tone without needing outlining. I don't see a > skinny owl working, certainly I could try removing the outlining as it > might work with the blue, but IIRC you need to make the head bigger than > the eyes to make that work and the beak gets lost... > > > > So to TL;DR I wasn't consciously channelling Mr J, obviously I am a long > time contributer to that project, so my style of icons can veer > "Tango"-ish, but I think the style works well for what we need... > Ultimately the community decides in the end ;-) > > > >> Regards >> Mirko >> >> > > >> > > >> > > Cheers, >> > > Paul >> > > >> > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > Am 2014-11-20 um 22:20 schrieb Stephen Connolly: >> > > > >> > > >> On Thursday, November 20, 2014, Michael Osipov < >> micha...@apache.org> >> > > >> wrote: >> > > >> >> > > >> Am 2014-11-20 um 21:21 schrieb Michael Osipov: >> > > >>> >> > > >>> My opinion on this: >> > > >>>> >> > > >>>> I do not like the connection between the owl and the word maven. >> > > >>>> While the owl stands for wisdom in the Greek culture as on the >> Greek >> > > >>>> euro coins, Maven is not of Greek origin. It is cleary of >> > > Hebrew/Jewish >> > > >>>> [1] origin. I see no connection here. I would rather see an old >> and >> > > wise >> > > >>>> man. >> > > >>>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>>> Well one advantage the owl has is that there is no obvious >> gender >> - >> > > >> apart >> > > >> from my unconscious bias referring to it as Mr :-P - whereas the >> wise >> > > old >> > > >> man could be perceived as biased, agest, sexist or belittling to >> wise >> > > >> women >> > > >> (irrespective of age) >> > > >> >> > > >> For that reason I think an animal with no obvious gender >> differences >> is >> > > >> probably a better fit >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > You obviously misunderstood me. I wasn't talking about genders and >> nor am >> > > > I tied to a man specifically. The point is, the owl is not rooted in >> the >> > > > Jewish culture as is the word/meaning of maven not rooted in the >> Greek >> > > one. >> > > > >> > > > Moreover, the mascot name might violate trademarks: >> > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimentation_Couche-Tard >> > > > >> > > > I don't want Apache Maven to be linked to a convenience store from >> > > Canada. >> > > > >> > > > Michael >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org >> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > > -- > Sent from my phone >
