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

[Josh Steiner]

now this is a really professional looking patch icon, terrific!  gets a 
strong vote from me :)


-josh


Andrey Savitsky wrote:

>Hi.
>I agree with Marc
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>>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...
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>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
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>#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.
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>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 : )
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>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).
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>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)
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>best regards,
>andrey
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>http://www.hhtp.org/webdesign/d03_2003.html
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