--- Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:
At the point the logo was updated, there was virtually unanimous consensus that the Nohat variant was an improvement (20 in favor, 2 against).
This satisfied the condition of the last stage of our contest, namely, optimization by consensus.
Excuse any redundancy, with Erik but: He's exactly right. The process of selecting the PM logo ( if you were there, Dante ) had a problem in that most logos were done by non-professionals with little eye for detail or skill to improve them. As such each "logo" was understood to be an *amateur rendering of a concept -- to have minor modifications later.
Ironically, the improvement process was a bit loose: People took radically different approaches to the PM logo, rather than simply improve upon the original. All useful for generating ideas, though. And Nohat spent a lot of time tweaking it little by little to get a polished and professional look for the final. I did some colorized versions of the PMNH logo here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_logo_variants/Stevertigo
As in all such consensus discussions, only interested parties participate.
Not to mention there was a [[meta:Logo feedback]] link on the front page -- after the change was made (until someone took it down). The first NH version a couple days ago was a bit dark, and people gave feedback on that. And it still can use some tweaking! There are some jaggies in the version on wiki now that need to be smoothed over. Versions to be used for other projects/ appications (posters, etc) need to be dealt with independently. Im not sure if Nohat is burned out on it -- he spent a *lot* of time on it -- as did Paul to come up with it (With GNU only software, no less) in the first place.
~S~
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