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FreeBSD Logo Contest Winner Announced
Saint Aardvark writes "Earlier this year, the FreeBSD people announced a competition to design a new logo. Welp, the winner has been announced, and you can check out the new logo. Congratulations to Anton K. Gural on the spiffy work!"
Keep the daemon, but make it so that if you didn't know it was supposed to be a daemon... it's um... not a daemon.
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It looks like a little piggy's head. And the wimpy font for the wordmark is disappointing. What was wrong with the old one?
"The new FreeBSD: less character, more sheen"
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I am amazed. It manages to look similar to the old one (horns) for someone who knows, yet if you don't know it does not suggest anything demonlike. Which is precisely what they wanted, I guess.
Uhm, yeah. That's because a pokeman ball is.. just a 3d rendered ball.
feh. stuff.
FreeBSD seems to become a bigger joke day by day. Tell me, does that logo instill a feeling of a strong, capable *nix? It looks like a clown.
Anyone else think it looks like a pokemon ball with horns?
Actually it looks more like the sort of logo you'd find on an IM or P2P app (they all seem to be using that style of logo). It just looks amateurish.
On the flip side, the old logo (though fun) was terribly amateurish, and impeded taking the OS seriously. Then again, Linux was taken seriously in spite of the goofy penguin.
I think the people who think it's a good logo are the people that know it's an abstracted beastie. An outsider will just wonder why the hell it's a red ball with spikes.
A lot of people seem to have trouble grasping the concept here, so perhaps this will help.
There is a difference between a mascot and a logo.
Think about McDonalds. Their logo is a giant 'M'. Their mascot is a scary kiddy-fiddling clown thing. The giant 'M' has changed over time, but Ronald McDonald is still the same freakish evil clown.
The Daemon mascot is going nowhere.
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Oh please, you may not like it, but hideous is an overstatement. I personally like simple 2D "vector" logos too, and this one lends itself just fine to that. The winner image shows all sorts of different variations, including a very plain contour version, with no fancy shading. The "3D" version is supposed to be a centerpiece on a box set (as shown in the winner image too), or a booth logo. That's why it is so heavy in sheen and bright colours; yet even there most of the details remain very subtle.
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At last, a logo for a major open source product that doesn't look retarded in any way. Kudos to the designer. Free BSD should expect a boost because of this. Linux penguin needs to go.
He has historical brand recognition and he's a lot cuter than the christmas tree ornament with tumours.
Can we talk? Nothing is going to stop the evangelical crowd from saying the OS is the spawn of satan if they get it into their minds to think so. What's the use of pandering?
Hmmm... It looks to me like a sex toy, but that probably says more about me than the logo in fairness.
Now I can't look at the beastie without thinking "Double-donger on a balloon"
Fuck them. If someone wants to follow the ways of some kooky Christian mythology or other religion, then more power to them. However, the fundamentalists that are trying to eradicate science, education, graven images, homosexuality or whatever it is that they percieve as some threat while trying to shove their bullshit down other people's throats need to STFU. It's one thing to live your life the way you want, but don't try to dictate how others should live theirs, or what they believe. If they're offended by some cartoon daemon as a mascot for an OS then they can happily stay away. I'd prefer they not meddle with anything else.
I am sickened by the amount of foothold this has gotten in the U.S. since oh, 2000 or so.
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Actually it looks more like the sort of logo you'd find on an IM or P2P app (they all seem to be using that style of logo). It just looks amateurish.
Actually, it looks very slick and professionally designed. A geek in their bedroom with a ray-tracing package and a copy of GIMP could have produced something similar that would nevertheless have lacked the important 'professional' touch.
Perhaps what you were thinking was that it doesn't project *quite* the right image for FreeBSD?
To me, it's really bit too polished (a la IM/P2P app logo), and lacking a defined personality. It definitely looks better against a white background (more Apple-ish than ray-tracy in that context) though.
Then again, Linux was taken seriously in spite of the goofy penguin.
In spite of the fact that the canonical image of Tux is a professional-looking *picture*, it comes across as incredibly amateurish when used as a logo. Personally, I can't stand the damn thing; perhaps it reminds me of Orville the Duck, though.
Best open-source artwork by far are the Firefox and Thunderbird logos. Beautifully designed pieces that are neither overly glossy nor bland.
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That was my reaction. I like the Beastie. They could come up with something better than a wierd sex toy, but what's wrong with the beastie?
It's horrible. It looks like something Apple would come up with. I'll stick to the old logo, thanks, and delete or scratch out the new one wherever I have the ability to do so. It's a travesty!