Hi Guys,<div><br></div><div>Visually I like Maarten's variant more (cool G!). Nicola's variant seems too busy (to small to see). <br><div><br></div><div>I just had a suggestion from Elena Gusareva to may be have DNA strand decomposing into sequence of bits (0/1's). I do not know how to do this, but I like the idea.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Yurii<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:14 PM, L.C. Karssen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@karssen.org" target="_blank">lennart@karssen.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Not bad! I really like the way you mixed the G and the DNA.<br>
Can't we make a combination with Nicola's creation so that we get some<br>
math in as well? That would nicely integrate two major components of the<br>
project (only programming would be missing).<br>
<br>
<br>
Lennart<br>
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On 11/04/13 21:39, Maarten Kooyman wrote:<br>
> Dear All,<br>
><br>
> I made also a small sketch of a logo. It is pretty raw, colours are<br>
> wrong , etcetera, etcetera.<br>
><br>
> To quote Nicola:<br>
> " If you hate it or think it should go in another direction, I'm not<br>
> touchy so please do tell me. "<br>
><br>
><br>
> Cheers,<br>
><br>
> Maarten<br>
><br>
><br>
> On 04/06/2013 01:36 AM, Nicola Pirastu wrote:<br>
>> Dear all,<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> I gave a shot at the logo, it's very simple. Let me know if you like<br>
>> 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<br>
>> changed. Also the pattern for the formulas have some white spaces, but<br>
>> this is just a quick draft.<br>
>><br>
>> If you hate it or think it should go in another direction, I'm not<br>
>> touchy so please do tell me.<br>
>><br>
>> Best.<br>
>><br>
>> Nicola<br>
><br>
><br>
>> 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<br>
>>> 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<br>
>>> Linux<br>
>>> does have a penguin for some obscure reason).<br>
>>><br>
>>> Best<br>
>>><br>
>>> Nicola<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>>> Dear Maarten,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I have also some irritation about the fact that there is no recognisable<br>
>>>>> 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<br>
>>>>> think<br>
>>>>> at<br>
>>>>> first sight you are more trustworthy,intelligent etc ect. ;)<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>> 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<br>
>>>> 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<br>
>>>> 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>
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