I actually like the feather, its the white gulls and the apache feather's shape. Symbolically its strong. Something we could adopt for the website design, not particularly for the icon or logo. ie a background for start up screen etc.
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mr. Robin, > > The one with the feather looks better. Can you reduce the size of the > OpenOffice 4 by half and even less so that the image becomes prominent. Can > you make an image with AOO4? > > With Warm Regards > > V.Kadal Amutham > 919444360480 > 914422396480 > > > On 30 January 2013 19:51, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ok so this what i've made, I'm sending two different versions, one with >> the feather and one without. The gulls are aligned to form the shape of a >> book (hence the text). The Font is the Bitstream Vera font. I didn't spend >> much time on the feather, it's one of the things i will work on some more. >> The reason i didn't use the apache brand feather is simply that it doesn't >> really fit the design. I'm happy to make some changes if there's any >> requests. >> >> >> Regards, >> Robin >> >> On 30 Jan 2013, at 14:03, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Mr. Robin, >> >> The openoffice.org needs a complete overhaul, right from the logo. The >> site >> needs to be attractive since we have no other inducement to keep the >> visitors to stay on the website like free offers, gifts etc. If you have >> any design, post it here so that eveybody can see. >> >> (If the attachment is large, the server may reject the mail. Then you can >> post it at some site and send the link. Or send the details to me and I >> will upload the file and place the link here. >> >> With Warm Regards >> >> V.Kadal Amutham >> 919444360480 >> 914422396480 >> >> >> On 30 January 2013 19:22, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Ok thanks for the clarification. My first question: >> >> I had a look around for something I'd like to do and came across the logo >> design concepts for version 4. I've made a design and was wondering if I >> just go ahead and edit the page (on CWiki), adding my design or do i send >> the design to someone who is responsible for editing the page? I guess I'm >> looking for some kind of general guidelines for the CWiki.. >> >> The other question is regarding the website, what is the approach to >> working on this, is it preferable to do minor improvements or could i go >> ahead and make an entire overhaul? Are there some guidelines for this or >> is >> it completely up to the individual? >> >> Thanks for your help! >> >> Robin >> >> >> On 29 Jan 2013, at 22:04, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Robin Fowler <[email protected]> >> >> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> my name's Robin Fowler and I'm currently based in the UK. I love doing >> >> graphic design and thought this would be a good opportunity to contribute. >> I'm mainly interested in marketing and UI design. >> >> >> >> Hi Robin, Welcome to the Apache OpenOffice project! >> >> I have read through the introduction modules and have signed up on the >> >> CWiki, and I have some questions but will hold back with them in case I'm >> asking at the wrong place (perhaps someone can give me a hint). >> >> >> >> This is the marketing mailing list. So it is a great place to ask >> questions. We don't currently have a separate list for graphics or >> UI. If it is related to marketing, branding, logos, promotional >> artwork, etc., then we discuss it on this list. If we're talking >> about the graphical elements of the core OpenOffice project then we >> discuss it on the dev mailing lis ([email protected]). >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> >> Regards, >> Robin >> >> >> >> >> >> >
