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FreeBSD Logo Contest Winner Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the cute-little-horned-spheroid dept.

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!"

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  1. Great! by ornil · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Pokemon? by kmmatthews · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Uhm, yeah. That's because a pokeman ball is.. just a 3d rendered ball.

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  3. Beastie (the Daemon) is NOT GOING ANYWHERE by adamwpants · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

    Jeebus.

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  4. Re:hideous by MyIS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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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  5. Re:Huh... by rho · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Also moronic is taking at face value an unattributed "news story" and an anecdote laced with outrageous stereotyping. The James Dobson comes without a by-line, and doesn't name the show where he was interviewed on Fox. Linda's foray into Texas redneckery is long on reflexive bigotry and intolerance, but seems to miss that the stereotypical Texan is also instinctively polite towards womenfolk. Not only would they not mention her shirt, they'd hold the door open for her and ask about her family.

    And here I always thought Slashdotters prided themselves on their "skepticism". I guess skepticism takes a back-seat when you get a juicy opportunity to wave your prejudices about.

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  6. Re:Simple yet... by fuzzix · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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"