2008/5/7 tim Rowledge <
tim@...>:
On 7-May-08, at 3:14 AM, cdrick wrote:
I'm not against the mouse icon at all... but refreshing it with a 3D look maybe could be nice,
I knew this would be interpreted like this...
It's just a feeling I expressed seeing squeak logo in this web page (compared to others)... I should have said more contemporary probably.. and probably this was almost due to the rendering (as Bert noted)... black on gray etc... but yeah designing and choosing a logo is something hard and somewhat "useless"...
Generally all it achieves in my opinion (and yes, Virginia, I am a professional) is a tackiness and ersatz contemporaneity that simply means having 'refresh' it again a short while later.
This is the whole logo and graphics story I think. But if graphists exist, who have design rules to respect, there must be a reason. IMO , one is to catch people attention, give a whole picture with the help of a symbol... In this sense, I'm sure the actual logo is ok, but on the other hand, people have to be very open-minded and curious to give a try... I could'nt say the word it brings to me... I forgot... Anyway, as we don't want squeak to become mainstream. It's better it stays a kind of secret weapon, so this is not a problem ;)
Cédrick
ps: Every corporation, systems, products make they image evolve over time. Seaside for instance had already 3 different logos (
http://www.seaside.st/about/trivia/logos). I'm glad they didn't keep the 2002 one ;) ... no offense to anybody, I'll be terrible at designing one... and even choosing... Just impressions...
