[PD] logo or icon?? (my opinion)

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I think that this might be my favorite:

http://www.pure-data.org/Members/andre/howto-draw-pd/

now the question is how to make that into a logo.

.hc

On Thursday, Oct 23, 2003, at 07:11 America/New_York, Andrey Savitsky  
wrote:

> Hi.
> I agree with Marc
>> if the logos and icons are designed to be impressive, there's a
>> high risk that a bunch of clueless newbies will complain about pd's  
>> look.
>> So we should keep it simple, to the extreme. We love screen  
>> captures...
>
> How i see, now there is a choice between logo in Macromedia's style  
> (021 -
> this is the best from 007-021) and pure screencapture style (022-030).
> http://www.pure-data.org/Members/andre/pd_icon_test21/image_view
>
> #021 has very nice design, but i'm not sure that pd needs logo like  
> this. I
> very like modern graphic design, but if a designer creates the logo  
> like
> 021, he expresses
> just one idea - "we are contemporary!", but pd needs its own message  
> and
> mythology.
>
> I think pd already has its own graphical style, embodied in classical
> (historical) logo - we can just type "Pd" in a object or message box :  
> )
>
> All now pd needs (i repeat) is a mythology. This purpose is usually  
> reached
> by any illustration for a splash screen or some graphic stuff in  
> additives
> to logo (maybe original graphic design for the installation package).
>
> And icon is just icon on the desctop. i use my selfmade icons without
> pd-logo for example (see attch).
> If you would like to create a logo, don't begin from an icon, begin  
> from a
> legend!!! (than maybe 021 will be best... or 010... or 007. than  
> everything
> will change)
>
> best regards,
> andrey
>
> http://www.hhtp.org/webdesign/d03_2003.html
>
> <pd_icon.gif>

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