I think the WM Logo is very beautiful. It's not meaningless. It looks like someone dancing happily, just like he/she is attending a very joyful party.
THD
2007/2/5, phoebe ayers brassratgirl@gmail.com:
On 2/4/07, Dan Jacobson jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
BY> Thanks! My resume's posted. =p
I have to say it's an amazing logo. On 1/11/07, Ben Yates wrote:
I designed the original logo; if anyone wants my help with the new one, let me know.
Well my Mom says
> "M" == Annette Jacobson writes:
M> I see you are volunteering for the conference. One point of M> criticism: Can't they do better for a logo? It looks like two M> separated smears of paint -- doesn't signify anything, and also not M> very artistic. Maybe they can have a jury-peered artist contest for
a
M> new and better design?
I however have images turned off on my modem line, so it doesn't matter to me. OK, see you all here in Taiwan in 8/2007.
I don't know if I've mentioned this already, but we did get complements on the logo in person at Wikimania '06, including from one person who was a former conference planner.
As for what the logo signifies: it's a creative WM, IIRC :) I'm not saying there's not a possibly better logo out there that we could get with a contest, but this one served our purposes well by being recognizable, easy to print, infinitely scalable and uncomplicated (easy to reproduce with markers on handmade signs, for instance!) Any new logo should aspire to the same goals.
-- phoebe
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