<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/5/7 tim Rowledge <<a href="mailto:tim@rowledge.org">tim@rowledge.org</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 7-May-08, at 3:14 AM, cdrick wrote:<br>
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I'm not against the mouse icon at all... but refreshing it with a 3D look maybe could be nice,<br>
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Could someone please explain to me why a '3D look' is 'more modern' or 'refreshed'? </blockquote><div><br>I knew this would be interpreted like this...<br><br>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"...<br>
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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.</blockquote>
<div><br>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 ;)<br>
<br>Cédrick<br><br>ps: Every corporation, systems, products make they image evolve over time. Seaside for instance had already 3 different logos (<a href="http://www.seaside.st/about/trivia/logos">http://www.seaside.st/about/trivia/logos</a>). 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...<br>
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