Firstly, I'd like to speak in favour of the idea of designing a logo for Perl6, and then creating a Rakudo logo based on the Perl6 logo and the Parrot logo. From here on, I'll be addressing the Perl6 logo.

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Larry Wall wrote:

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 09:49:42AM -0700, Jon Lang wrote:
: 2009/3/24 Larry Wall <la...@wall.org>:
: > http://www.wall.org/~larry/camelia.pdf

I vote for this at the moment, but I'd still like to see other proposals now that we have some more direction.

Not picking on you in particular, but I think there's a tendency to
go way too abstract in most of these proposals.  I want something
with gut appeal on the order of Tux.  In particular I want a logo
for Perl 6 that is:

   Fun
   Cool
   Cute
   Named
   Lively
   Punable
   Personal
   Concrete
   Symmetric
   Asymmetric
   Attractive
   Relational
   Metamorphic
   Decolorizable
   Shrinkable to textual icon
   Shrinkable to graphical icon

These criteria seem to eliminate all of the other existing logo proposals. However, some of them could be redesigned to fit these criteria. I'd like to ask, though, that all future logos include both the text and the graphical version.


In addition, you can extend just about anything by attaching "P6"
wings to it.  I also take it as a given that we want to discourage
misogyny in our community.  You of the masculine persuasion should
consider it an opportunity to show off your sensitive side.  :)

In spite of what you said about the butterfly being enormous, I'd like to suggest that one advantage of having a butterfly is that we could believably have it sitting on top of the Parrot (enormous parrot too?).

In response to those asking for a professional designer, I'd like to see us go around a few more times here, and see if we can't come up with at least a good concept that could hopefully be used/stylised by a real graphic designer, so that we might end up with something like the Parrot logo.

Now that Larry's provided some criteria, let round 2 of the design process begin!

        :)


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