Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :)
My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;)
Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.s...
AJF/WarX
On 25/04/07, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :) My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;) Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.s...
<catmacro>I APPROVE OF THIS</catmacro>
- d.
On 4/25/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/04/07, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :) My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;) Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.s...
<catmacro>I APPROVE OF THIS</catmacro>
Very nice; I like the logo on its own very much. The addition of "Mayflower search" or "Mayflower <br> Search Engine" below is probably a good idea though. At the moment I'm not sure that if someone saw the logo they would say "oh that's the logo of a tool for searching for images" or even "oh that's a search engine"...
Perhaps I have my marketing hat on but the point of a logo has always been, to me, that it clearly demonstrates at a glance what the item is; the toolserver logo ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Toolserver....) is a great example of this. What about having half the center be the ship and half a magnifying glass (classic symbol for a search), or something of the sort?
Just throwing out ideas, I still like the logo as-is :)
On 4/29/07, Ayelie (Editor at Large) ayelie.at.large@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps I have my marketing hat on but the point of a logo has always been, to me, that it clearly demonstrates at a glance what the item is; the toolserver logo ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Toolserver....) is a great example of this. What about having half the center be the ship and half a magnifying glass (classic symbol for a search), or something of the sort?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower_s...
Something like this, but fixed up and less crappy (this was a sketchy sort of see-how-it-looks image). I'm sure it could also be done like the toolserver logo and have half a ship and half a magnifying glass... or perhaps a magnifying glass larger with the whole ship inside?
On 4/29/07, Ayelie (Editor at Large) ayelie.at.large@gmail.com wrote:
half a magnifying glass (classic symbol for a search)
Generally classic symbol for poor quality search. Most of our better logos are not completely obvious as to what they represent.
I'm on Polish Wikimedian Meetup in Białowieża, tomorrow we will have SVG Workshops, so I will try to make a brainstorm about it ;)
AJF/WarX
On 4/25/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 25/04/07, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :) My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;) Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.s...
<catmacro>I APPROVE OF THIS</catmacro>
That had better be a freely-licensed cat macro, otherwise <catmacro>DO NOT WANT</catmacro>.
(Internets humor aside, I like it, though I think the boat could be more stylized and less detailed.)
-Kat
On 25/04/07, Artur Fijałkowski wiki.warx@gmail.com wrote:
Some time ago someone introduced Mayflower on this list :)
My first opinion about this tool was: great, but ugly logo will make it useless ;)
Now with some help of Masur we have something a bit nicer and good starting point for evolving something even better ;)
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Wikimedia_Community_Logo-Mayflower.s...
AJF/WarX
Some constructive criticism: The fine lines of the ship don't really work with the thick circular lines - the overall design should be more minimal. The symmetry of the wave looks odd against the asymmetry of the ship.