[Freedombox-discuss] Fwd: The "new" FreedomBox logo (Was: Re: Condemos: FBx UI & Potential Distro)

[James Vasile]

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Robert Martinez did the new logo in consultation with folks on the
Visual list.  Anybody was welcome to participate and there were many
rounds of revision.  Robert's work is quite good and comes complete with
a FreedomBox logotype and a style manual for guiding use of the logo.

As Luka knows, I like the Gnu too!  My test runs with the Gnu-in-a-box
found that it didn't print well on small items and some designers told
me it was somewhat unwieldy to use in practice.  I think we'll still
find use for the Gnu in a box, but the FreedomBox Foundation is going to
use Robert's excellent work on, for example, the
freedomboxfoundation.org website and on Plinth.

I should have announced the new logo some time ago.  Apologies to Robert
and everybody else for not doing so.  I'll write something up.

Best regards,
James


On Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:57:06 +0000, Graham Burnside <graham.s.burnside at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 for new logo.
> 
> "Luka Marčetić" <paxcoder at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 02/28/2012 10:14 PM, Mathieu Jourdan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Le 27 février 2012 23:41, Robert Martinez<mail at mray.de> a écrit :
> >> Find the new logo in all variants here: http://mray.de/FreedomBox-Logo.7z
> >> Can somebody with access to the wiki please upload it there?
> > I updated the wiki with the new logo. I also added a new page :
> > https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/VisualIdentity
> >
> > Regards,
> > Mathieu
> 
> Hello all,
> I'm the author of the "gnu in a box" logo currently being used by the 
> FreedomBox Foundation, as you can see at 
> http://freedomboxfoundation.org/thanks/, and the Wikipedia description 
> page for the image.
> I was surprised to see today that Mathieu Jourdan has deleted this logo 
> from the Debian wiki and replaced it with a butterfly design by Robert 
> Martinez.
> I might be out of the loop here, but was this change discussed, and 
> found to be a wanted one? Also, what is the foundation's stance on it?
> 
> My patchwork might be crude, but I still prefer it to the butterfly. 
> With all due respect to the work that Martinez has done, the butterfly 
> does not aesthetically please me. To be clear, I'm aware that 
> improvements on my design, or even a complete redesign are a 
> possibility, however, I'm not sure the agreement was reached here. In 
> fact, I'm not sure what would constitute an agreement in a matter such 
> as this, since my suggestion for voting for consensus (older members 
> might remember) was not implemented - by me or anyone else as far as I know.
> 
> Mathieu, please revert the changes made to the wiki, unless we agree(d) 
> otherwise.
> 
> Thank you,
> -Luka
> 
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