<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<br><br><br>I gave a shot at the logo, it's very simple. Let me know if you like the general idea, if you'd like to add something or change it. <br><br>As colors I've sticked to those of the website but they can be changed. Also the pattern for the formulas have some white spaces, but this is just a quick draft.<br><br>If you hate it or think it should go in another direction, I'm not touchy so please do tell me.<br><br>Best.<br><br>Nicola<div><br></div><div><img id="b2f2b029-acc3-45a7-8928-a38dbabddafe" height="489" width="982" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:D7A4AD78-252D-4E88-A1B3-E81437B13A89"></div><div><br><div><div>Il giorno 05/apr/2013, alle ore 13:21, <a href="mailto:pirastu@burlo.trieste.it">pirastu@burlo.trieste.it</a> ha scritto:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br><br>I really like the proposal, I just to add a few ideas to the discussion.<br>I think that there are some important concepts that could be used for a logo:<br><br>1) ABEL which is able in the end could be something like a hammer or a<br>tool of some sort.<br><br>2) I think that the great thing about the *ABEL project is that it is not<br>a single group but it is a network of people and we could rappresent that<br>also.<br><br>3) the * in *ABEL could be made by two crossed Chromosomes or something<br>else or maybe a DNA strand a tool and something else (Although I do<br>realize that it could remind of the comunist party this way :) ).<br><br>4) I do like animals, but I it should be meanigful somehow (although Linux<br>does have a penguin for some obscure reason).<br><br>Best<br><br>Nicola<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear Maarten,<br><br>I have also some irritation about the fact that there is no recognisable<br><blockquote type="cite">logo on the page. I looks like a complete default page to me: which<br>gives<br>me the impression that there is not any on it. Does someone has<br>graphical<br>skills to create a nice logo which we can use on the site, posters or<br>presentations? Having a neat logo, is like wearing a suite: people think<br>at<br>first sight you are more trustworthy,intelligent etc ect. ;)<br><br><br></blockquote>Completely agree and fully support the idea! I even tried to design<br>something myself, but it was SO bad :)<br><br>Part of the problem is that obvious meaningful symbols (like chromosomes,<br>sigmas and Gaussians) are boring and used for long time. Another part is<br>that we can not just pick say a cute kitty and stop - there should be some<br>meaning to the symbol (or not?).<br><br>Do we have examples of successful, recognizable logos we like?I like<br>FreeBSD, GNU's Gnu, also Firefox and Chrome are very distinguished.<br><br>Yurii<br>_______________________________________________<br>genabel-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:genabel-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">genabel-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br>https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel<br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>genabel-devel mailing list<br><a href="mailto:genabel-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org">genabel-devel@lists.r-forge.r-project.org</a><br>https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>