I don't mean to put down anyone's effort, but some of the logo sketches were, well, terrible. I think that a number of people here have had interesting ideas in terms of what the logo might contain (whether it's a rocket or angle brackets), but very few of the resulting images were esthetically pleasing. My proposal is that we take a small set of possible ideas to someone with graphic design skills. I am not implying we have nobody like that here, I just think this is very quickly degenerating into a shed-painting discussion, and I think we can save everyone a lot of time by picking 1-3 ideas (e.g., "boost rocket") and having someone adept of converting ideas into images work with that. meeroh "I can't draw to save my life, and I know it" PS. I think a design which simply reads "boost" and has the letter t be the rocket would work well -- If this message helped you, consider buying an item from my wish list: <http://web.meeroh.org/wishlist>
Miro Jurisic wrote:
Hence why I tried to discontinue the display of just more logos (noticed I stopped posting images), and turn it into what the logo should say. Alas someone goes and responds to the "what do think the logo should say", with "here's what the logo should look like" :-(
PS. I think a design which simply reads "boost" and has the letter t be the rocket would work well
OK, but you are doing exactly what you said we should not do. So, you are saying that a "rocket" portrays Boost to you? If so, why? Are there other *concepts* (not instances) that would represent Boost to you? Do you know someone who is familiar about Boost? Ask them what they think would represent Boost. Do you know someone who is not familiar with Boost? Ask them what Boost invokes to them? ...And I'm not just asking you personally these questions... But the Boost community. Think about it and post your thoughts. But yes, can we stop posting yours, or my, _this is how it should look_ types of posts. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com - 102708583/icq
Miro Jurisic wrote:
I don't mean to put down anyone's effort, but some of the logo sketches were, well, terrible.
I think that's the nature of brainstorming. It's very much like a genetic algorithm. You sample the space randomly, and hover around the promising patches. You will necessarily hit poor spots, but that is not an indictment of the process.
I've seen what marketing/graphic design agencies do with logos, and frankly, I'm not impressed. I've seen enough talent here to believe that the Boost community can produce something as good as your typical graphic design house. Besides, there is something appealing about geeks making the logo, rather than artists that perhaps don't appreciate the technical value of this enterprise.
Well, if it stuck to a few threads, that might be nicer. There is definitely a proliferation of threads. But I certainly don't think that you can have too many ideas floating around. Let the ideas compete on their own merits. Eventually one will gain critical mass as a sufficient number of people say: "Hey, that clicks with me." At this point, I don't think anybody has a clear enough idea about what the Boost logo should be or look like to say what is or is not the right direction to take. When solving a new problem, a little initial chaos can be a good thing. ;)
PS. I think a design which simply reads "boost" and has the letter t be the rocket would work well
And maybe it would. And if you can convince someone to make such a design for us to gawk at, more power to you! Dave
Miro Jurisic <macdev@meeroh.org> writes:
Like the one on slide 3? http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.ppt -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes: D> Miro Jurisic <macdev@meeroh.org> writes:
Now updated and improved. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
David Abrahams wrote:
I agreed with Miro, but I have concede that your latest attempts (slides 2 and 4) don't look too bad to me. But I don't like the look of the slanted C++ in the background. For one I don't see the point of stacking (staggering?) the "++". With the rocket there, is there really any need to stylize the "C++"?
Hi, For me, any design that has a *descending* string "C++" is a bad design. The only thing that could make it even worse would be an *ascending* "Java" or "C#". ;) Just think about all those clueless managers who may happen to decide whether Boost is to be used in the project or not. Everything has to go from lower-left to upper-right. In particular "C++". ;) -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/
Maciej Sobczak <prog@msobczak.com> writes:
We have the rocket.
I think that's a stretch. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
Deane Yang <deane_yang@yahoo.com> writes:
The staggered "+" symbols are how we get the "s" in Boost. We could just remove the "C++", of course, as in slide 3 of the current version at http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.ppt -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
"Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> writes:
Very cool - how about animating the flames?
How about we put a bicycle in the logo? Oh, but then we'll need some place to park it... ;-) -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
David Abrahams wrote:
I don't have PowerPoint. Is there a free reader availible? Alternately, would it be possible to rewrite this document as a PDF or something? Aaron W. LaFramboise
Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
OpenOffice deals with it very well, if you have the download bandwidth you might try that. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com - 102708583/icq
"Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronrabiddog51@aaronwl.com> writes:
I tried, but it doesn't render quite the same (the vapor trails in slides 2,3,4 and 6 are off). Anyway, here's what you get: http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.pdf -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
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