Love the paper plane idea. Brenden
-----Original Message----- From: Graham Lauder [mailto:yori...@openoffice.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 2:25 PM To: marketing@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Change icon? On Thursday 04 Nov 2010 04:56:55 Benjamin Horst wrote: > On Nov 2, 2010, at 10:27 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > > Le 2010-11-02 19:58, David Nelson a écrit : > >> Your paper plane fits in superbly with the paper sheet, as a > >> natural development thereof. The possibilities are many. It can be > >> made into something that fires empathy in the young and old, the > >> simple and the sophisticated. > >> > >> What do you think about the idea of giving it eyes, or some kind of > >> face? Can you find a way to breathe life into it, like the old man > >> into Pinnochio? > >> > >> David Nelson > > > > I don't think you would need to personify it. > > > > How about when you start a document, the logo starts off with the > > LibO logo that we have worked on and the more you type, the more the > > folds of a paper plane appear, and then the logo shows a paper plane > > outline to finally its final shape of a paper plane ready to fly ... it is > > done! > > I am liking the paper plane icon concept more and more, as well. > > To go along with the icon, we could create various folding templates > for different paper plane designs, put a LibO icon on them in > prominent places, and distribute them digitally as ODGs and PDFs. We > could print them out for conferences, and let people pick them up and > fold them using instructions printed as part of the template. > > There are many great designs to be found online, such as these: > http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/Plane%20Downloads.html > > -Ben > > Benjamin Horst > bho...@mac.com > 646-464-2314 (Eastern) > www.solidoffice.com This could be the basis of an extremely good marketing campaign. "LibreO -Fly the Plane" or something similar, paper plane designs on line, in templates and extensions. I'm coming round, I like it a lot, certainly as a launch platform. "LibreO takes Flight" and so on cheers GL -- Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html OpenOffice.org Migration and training Consultant. INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Open Technologies) www.theingots.org -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
