[GenABEL-dev] layout of GenABEL main page

[Yurii Aulchenko]

Hi Guys,

Visually I like Maarten's variant more (cool G!). Nicola's variant seems
too busy (to small to see).

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.

Yurii

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:14 PM, L.C. Karssen <lennart at karssen.org> wrote:

> Not bad! I really like the way you mixed the G and the DNA.
> Can't we make a combination with Nicola's creation so that we get some
> math in as well? That would nicely integrate two major components of the
> project (only programming would be missing).
>
>
> Lennart
>
> On 11/04/13 21:39, Maarten Kooyman wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> >  I made also a small sketch of a logo. It is pretty raw, colours are
> > wrong , etcetera, etcetera.
> >
> > To quote Nicola:
> > " If you hate it or think it should go in another direction, I'm not
> > touchy so please do tell me. "
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Maarten
> >
> >
> > On 04/06/2013 01:36 AM, Nicola Pirastu wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> If you hate it or think it should go in another direction, I'm not
> >> touchy so please do tell me.
> >>
> >> Best.
> >>
> >> Nicola
> >
> >
> >> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> I really like the proposal, I just to add a few ideas to the
> discussion.
> >>> I think that there are some important concepts that could be used for
> >>> a logo:
> >>>
> >>> 1) ABEL which is able in the end could be something like a hammer or a
> >>> tool of some sort.
> >>>
> >>> 2) I think that the great thing about the *ABEL project is that it is
> not
> >>> a single group but it is a network of people and we could rappresent
> that
> >>> also.
> >>>
> >>> 3) the * in *ABEL could be made by two crossed Chromosomes or something
> >>> else or maybe a DNA strand a tool and something else (Although I do
> >>> realize that it could remind of the comunist party this way :) ).
> >>>
> >>> 4) I do like animals, but I it should be meanigful somehow (although
> >>> Linux
> >>> does have a penguin for some obscure reason).
> >>>
> >>> Best
> >>>
> >>> Nicola
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Dear Maarten,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have also some irritation about the fact that there is no
> recognisable
> >>>>> logo on the page. I looks like a complete default page to me: which
> >>>>> gives
> >>>>> me the impression that there is not any on it. Does someone has
> >>>>> graphical
> >>>>> skills to create a nice logo which we can use on the site, posters or
> >>>>> presentations? Having a neat logo, is like wearing a suite: people
> >>>>> think
> >>>>> at
> >>>>> first sight you are more trustworthy,intelligent etc ect. ;)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Completely agree and fully support the idea! I even tried to design
> >>>> something myself, but it was SO bad :)
> >>>>
> >>>> Part of the problem is that obvious meaningful symbols (like
> >>>> chromosomes,
> >>>> sigmas and Gaussians) are boring and used for long time. Another part
> is
> >>>> that we can not just pick say a cute kitty and stop - there should
> >>>> be some
> >>>> meaning to the symbol (or not?).
> >>>>
> >>>> Do we have examples of successful, recognizable logos we like?I like
> >>>> FreeBSD, GNU's Gnu, also Firefox and Chrome are very distinguished.
> >>>>
> >>>> Yurii
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> genabel-devel mailing list
> >>>> genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> >>>> <mailto:genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>
> >>>>
> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> genabel-devel mailing list
> >>> genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> >>> <mailto:genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org>
> >>>
> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> genabel-devel mailing list
> >> genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> >>
> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > genabel-devel mailing list
> > genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> >
> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel
> >
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> L.C. Karssen
> Utrecht
> The Netherlands
>
> lennart at karssen.org
> http://blog.karssen.org
>
> Stuur mij aub geen Word of Powerpoint bestanden!
> Zie http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.nl.html
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> genabel-devel mailing list
> genabel-devel at lists.r-forge.r-project.org
> https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/genabel-devel
>



-- 
-----------------------------------------------------
Yurii S. Aulchenko

[ LinkedIn <http://nl.linkedin.com/in/yuriiaulchenko> ] [
Twitter<http://twitter.com/YuriiAulchenko>] [
Blog <http://yurii-aulchenko.blogspot.nl/> ]
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/pipermail/genabel-devel/attachments/20130411/af4d2604/attachment-0001.html>