[Freedombox-discuss] T-shirt / Logo idea

[Nicolás Reynolds]

Deborah, I'm resending your reply to the list because I was the only
receiver :)

El 19/04/11 12:33, Deborah Nicholson dijo:
> Building on Nicolás's idea, what about a (small) field of box flowers
> with GNU-bee flying over them? Then you get wings, pollination by
> freedom, a funny flying GNU and the community of multiple box flowers.
> Cheers,
> Deb
> 
> 
> On 18 April 2011 08:52, Nicolás Reynolds <fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar> wrote:
> > El 17/04/11 12:50, Joshua Spodek dijo:
> >> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 18:08 +0000,
> >> freedombox-discuss-request at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> >> > T-Shirt Designs
> >> > ---------------
> >> >
> >> > One of the things we offered Kickstarter donors was a T-shirt. We
> >> > are thus soliciting T-shirt designs. The theme of the shirt is
> >> > Community Angels. It would be good to involve our current logo
> >> > http://freedomboxfoundation.org/images/freedombox_large.png. Sorry,
> >> > we don't have a bigger version of that.
> >> >
> >> > The chosen design will be printed on t-shirts that we will give to
> >> > donors. Of course, if your design is chosen, we will cover you in
> >> > thanks
> >> > and make sure you get a shirt too. I will also buy you a beer next
> >> > time
> >> > we meet.
> >> >
> >> > Send designs in a free file format to join at freedomboxfoundation.org
> >> > before April 15. I'd like vector graphics, but since the existing logo
> >> > is PNG, I recognize that will be difficult.
> >>
> >> A designer friend and I were talking about logo designs. The challenge
> >> is representing freedom, since boxes are easy enough. The gnu in the
> >> current works for people in the free software community but not outside
> >> it. Eagles work in the U.S., but may have opposing connotations
> >> elsewhere.
> >>
> >> We focused on the ideas of community, growth, friendliness, and mesh
> >> computing and hit on the idea of flowers with boxes as the flower.
> >> Flowers are friendly and colorful. They grow as individual plants and as
> >> fields of them. Their motion could be represented by the waves of a
> >> network connected symbol, implying connectivity and community.
> >>
> >> I put some simple examples at
> >> http://joshuaspodek.com/freedombox-logo-ideas. They aren't supposed to
> >> be the final word, just starting points for discussion.
> >>
> >> If the individual flower idea resonates, we can also create images of
> >> fields of colorful Freedombox flowers. Each can have its own color and
> >> variety (rose-like, tulip-like, etc) representing its individuality.
> >>
> >> A field of Freedombox flowers is like a mesh of computers, with messages
> >> going from peer to peer, represented by the network-connected waves. It
> >> could be animated with new ones popping up all the time.
> >>
> >> I’d love feedback on the design.
> >
> > What about a hurd of little gnus, same meshing concept, but gnus instead
> > of flowers? :)
> >
> > I mean, gnus are a good depiction of (software) freedom, well known around
> > the world, while eagles are a symbol of imperialism for most of it and I
> > bet flowers can be something similar in some places...
> >
> > --
> > Salud!
> > Nicolás Reynolds,
> > xmpp:fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar
> > omb:http://identi.ca/fauno
> > blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/
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> >
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> >
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> 

-- 
Salud!
Nicolás Reynolds,
xmpp:fauno at kiwwwi.com.ar
omb:http://identi.ca/fauno
blog:http://selfdandi.com.ar/
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