At 11:27 PM 10/21/2002 +0100, Robert O'Connor wrote:
> But I have to admit I cringe somewhat when I see its 'pacifier' icon onI cringe at it too. Never got the connection because I didn't know "plucker" was another word for pacifier and, lacking children, I tend to think of pacifiers as 'passies' since my sisters call them that with their kids. A pacifier is a gun. A big one. You can pacify a whole mob real quick with that.
> my Palm screen. I'm not sure what the connection is between a superb
> off-line hypertext browser and a tool for calming crying babies.
Why, you 'Pluck' the pacifier out of their mouths, and that's what causes the crying.
But I digress....
Most logos don't have much to do with their product, that makes them stronger differentiatorBad example though. The early home computer industry had almost no intersection to marketing folk (not that the Open Source has any.) The largest brand of floppies for a long time was Elephant, 'cuz they never forget. I had a Gorilla monitor, Banana printer interface, the first big brand of surge suppressors also named after fruit, "Batteries Included" had some of the best business software, speed-up cartridges for the Commodores were called the Rabbit, the company that created a cross-reader for the 1571 Commodore disk drive to read IBM floppies was called "SOGWOP" for "Sons Of God With All Power", one of the biggest game companies for Atari and Commodore was Nufekop which they CLAIMED was Druid-ish but which was obviously (to some of us, anyhow) simply "Poke Fun" spelt backwards. The point is that the standard, the bar if you will, for names and associations has changed dramatically since the christening of Apple.
logos in the field. An 'apple' icon doesn't have much to do with computers, but less computer
competitors can make a computer with an apple-like thing on it. (There is some background
possible stories about that icon though, such as it is a bitten apple to represent knowledge,
or perhaps even the knowledge of good and evil).
But I digress...
The pacifier does raise a few questionmarks in corporate deployments that otherwise might
choose Plucker, though, if not for a pacifier. [You may have noticed that the alt text on the
website's logo is "What's the deal with the pacifier.] Some like the pacifier though. Some even
like the chicken (which I guess has a stronger connection to 'plucking' since you can plucker
feathers, but even that took me a few months to tie together).
Why were you tying together chicken feathers? I missed something here.
I wouldn't mind a logo submission contest, and either choose a simplified stylized pacifier orI -like- the chicken. And it can be a flexible chicken... a rubber chicken, if you will. See below...
another logo, and use it consistently across everything. Some prototypes submitted, then
community votes. Similar to the Debian logo decision some years back.
On the ToDo for the Desktop is to have consistent logos with the viewer, website, docs, etc.Okay, here's my hallucination^H^H^H^H^H^H^H vision... A close-up on a chicken's head with a medical mirror headband for docs... a chicken in a spider web for the web site... a chicken craning it's neck forward, with big eyes, for the viewer (sort of a peeping Tom)... a chicken RIDING a spider (rodeo style) for the spider itself... you get the idea. If you don't, you shoulda had my lunch (Murphy stout with chocolate cupcakes... yum yum urgle thud.)
This is not a high priority, though. So that I won't have to do it a third time, I will wait
until there is a consensus on a Plucker final logo, typeface, and whether the written name is
'Plucker' or 'plucker'.
Only trouble... I'm about as good at visual arts as I am at roping passing comets with dental floss. But I like the idea of a theme, and one that can be both humorous and quickly decoded.
Tony McNamara
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