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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!"
Devilishly clever...good job.
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Anyone else think it looks like a pokemon ball with horns?
What if the entire Universe were a chrooted environment with everything symlinked from the host?
It's kind of ugly at first, but not as bad the more I look at it. I think its the font used that bothers me, not so much the graphic. The red background also seems like a little bit too much.
...Satan got his first copy of a Lightwave or was dying.
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.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
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.
It looks like some sort of weird dual-orange juicer.
Has anyone else noticed how popular the "shiny orb" look has become recently? There are a lot of places now using the "shiny round button" as their logo. Weird.
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Why is Slashdot still using daemon then?
/. poll: What color should the new /. BSD icon be:
I guess Cowboy Neal hasn't cleared the trademark permissions yet.
Next
1) red
2) grey
3) black
4) white
5) orange
6) CowboyNeal
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i'll be the first (or roughly) to come right out and say i don't like it! it doesn't even look like a critter of any type - rather it is like a top or yoyo or some kind of made thing...
http://logo-contest.freebsd.org.nyud.net:8090/resu lt/640-1.png
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.
This has been discussed many times: beastie will remain as the mascotte, but not as the logo.
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Site seems to be toast, try the coral link Logo Winner.
Not near as bad as NetBSD's, I'll admit; but what IS IT with projects dumping perfectly fine logos and going with utter shite?
I guess BSD really is dead now :/
:D
It's not dead! It's KIRBY!
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It's the daemonic counterpart of Bit from the movie Tron.
Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.
Where can be found the logos from the other contesters ?
Is this a case of the devil we don't know rather than the one we do?
Will some informative /.er please point me to a logo page that isn't /.ed?
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Personally I hate "shaded" or three-dimensional logos. They quickly become tiresome. This logo will look cheap and dated 5 years from now, I guarantee it. I would prefer a more "timeless" logo, closer to monochromatic, two-dimensional. Something that could be sketched with a pen, yet be completely unique and recognizable.
I feel this logo has the most meaning only to those familiar with the previous logo (the beastie). A random person on the street (or in the boardroom) will not have a clue. And that's not good. For instance, why is the "horned ball" turned slightly? Just to show off perspective? To emulate the perspective of the previous logo? Why not just show the logo head-on, with symmetrical horns? Look at the black and white version. It looks like a drawing from a geometry textbook. A logo should be as minimal and simple as the font used to write the letters next to it.
I do like the font though. If the word FreeBSD were larger, and the logo smaller, I think it would look better, at least at the example I'm looking at.
Oh well. Anything is better than than the beastie from a corporate point of view, although this new one is utterly plastic and lifeless.
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If you put 20 horns on what you think is a Pokéball, you get a Bumble Ball. Then if you take the Bumble Ball, cover it in glue, and roll it around in your box of Lego bricks, you get Katamari Damacy!
... on the good side:
1) Professional
2) Artsy
3) Modern
on the downside:
1) Bland
2) Soulless
3) Lacks Flavor
4) Lacks Style
Shadus
And the new, honestly, looks like someone spent three minutes in Swift 3d...using the default globe and adding horns.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
It looks like something that belongs to the Pokemon franchise... ;>
The Sig, the sig
'Cause they slashdotted the announcement page?
Less is more.
This story should have been from the 'if it aint broke dont fix it' dept.
http://logo-contest.freebsd.org.nyud.net:8090/resu lt/640-1.png
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Must be running Win- Oh wait...
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.
FreeBSD's webserver is dying
I read
Will Ceren dress up like a ball now ?
Oh ya
the only copy of the logo wasn't on that server that just melted!
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Count me as one of those that likes the old Beastie logo. Looks like they may have caved in to pressure that the Beastie not policitically correct for the religious crowd. So who will draw the first Beastie logo thrusting his trident into the lame new one?
Hrmmmm
% uname -a && uptime
FreeBSD genesis 5.1-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sun Sep 28 16:56:16 PDT 2003 root@genesis:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENESIS i386
11:06AM up 390 days, 9:19, 2 users, load averages: 0.23, 0.19, 0.19
So much for that theory of yours...
Clever design! The new logo should appeal to long-time FreeBSD fans yet be more broadly accepted by the social police that guard the confines of "politically correct" - especially in commercial settings.
... our new sex-toy/exercise-ball-thingies-built-for-two-ladie s mascot!
...which looked like some goth's doodle on the back of his history textbook. This logo gives BSD a far more accessible corporate fascade.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
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.
This is my signature. There are many signatures like it, but this one is mine.
To me it looks like a Chaos Toy that you'd kick around on the floor with the horns causing it to caroom off in unexpected directions.
What it does not do for me is make me think of BSD Lnix when I see it.
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ImageShack won't be slashdotted, I think (/me crosses fingers).
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Oh shit... I just wanted to read "man ath" to check if my WiFi card is supported by FreeBSD...
Looks like the AIDS virus or some sort of peptide.
"This isn't a study in computer science, its a study in human behavior"
Anyone know of a link for the rest of the submitted logos?
I just cant see this new logo violating a penguin.
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I would hope the FreeBSD team would be the last to cower before the insane religious virus infecting the US.
Looks an awful lot like the Cacodemon from Doom.
damn red ball with two points comming out of it. Personally I loved the little deamon that they had before.
Do you mean "double fault"?
That's when the system experiences a (new, unexpected) page fault in the kernel while handling a page fault for user space.
It indicates some kind of bug in the VM, as the page handler of any x86 OS must be specifically designed to avoid that problem.
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Umm... http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html Find Linux in that list :P
No, I don't like it one bit...
But if that is the worst democracy ever does to FreeBSD, I can probably learn to live with it.
Poul-Henning
Poul-Henning Kamp -- FreeBSD since before it was called that...
It's really nice, but I miss the trident, symbolizing the forking process... don't see how it could have been integrated though
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FreeBSD db.**** 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004 root@wv1u.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GEN ERIC i386
11:17AM up 439 days, 1:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
Yep, mere days.
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I'm colorblind you insensitive clod!
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i seem to recall that there was a butt load of submissions. i think from a branding point of view, the winning submission is appropriate: it allows for various merchandise items to be branded consistently, including logotype and color variations. all in all i think freebsd will get alot of mileage out of the winning submission. that being said, it would be cool to see the other submissions, even if for nothing else for curiosity's sake. come on, let's see the losers!
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I've got an F5 BigIP that runs a BSD variant... check this'n out:
uname -a && uptime
BIG-IP bigip0 BIG-IP 3.3 BIG-IP Kernel 3.3 i386
2:21PM up 1300 days, 12:18, 1 user, load averages: 3.09, 3.16, 3.15
I resent the weakening of our symbols of worship and connectivity.
As for your light-hearted use of "devilishly", you are an insensitive clod!
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
Now why cant ubuntu have a cool logo and scheme like that? The new logo looks awesome. Who honestly wants brown and a badger like ubuntu!
what the crap??
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Personally I hate "shaded" or three-dimensional logos.
:-)
Agree, they are so 00s
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" I'm colorblind you insensitive clod!
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Black and white it is then.
Don't expect to see any installations of FreeBSD in any non-denominational churches in your area soon... or shall I say "non-daemon" churches?
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Netcraft confirms it, Beastie is... nevermind.
AAAARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
Dude, it's NOT a devil! Anyone who knows anything about FreeBSD/Unix knows the significance of the Daemon!
And his name is Beastie, not Chuck.
And yes, I'm fairly sure he'll still be around.
Very clean design, but vaguely apple-esque (but what isn't these days ;-)
The logo looks like a piggy head with tits. And it's tits-up, not
exactly a harbinger of good uptime.
Maybe it's a balloon with a sausage stuck through it.
At least Chuck (the beastie) had some soul.
Do not anger horny fun ball!
Somehow this logo feels reminiscent of BeOS. Dunno why...
I would like to see *BSD without the horned guy in any form. After all, it is Windoze that serves the little horned men - not nice little *BSDs.
Something classy and awe-inspiring please. Something like the SGI cube for instance - now that's real classy!
All this: IMHO
NapsterBSD
I think everyone realises that the BSD daemon is a little too much. After all, there's too many things you can do with the word daemon, for example add suffixes such as ic and ise and you are going to alienate even more people (or should I say perspective buyers). Maybe this logo is an ingenious, though a bit late, attempt to move away from the daemon to say... pokemon ball as someone suggested earlier... First, remove the body, then removes the horns and you got yourself a ball. And with a simple ball you can go pretty much anywhere you like...
No,it won't appeal to them all. It may grow on a good many of them though. I'll have to wait and see if that's the case for myself - it doesn't do much for me just yet - too "shiny orb"-ish for me. Regardless, I'm not giving up my Beastie Tshirts. Also, I'm still quite fond of many of the she Deamon designs that have come up over the years. And I'll bet a dollar Beastie is still quite visible 2 or more years down the road.
First thing I thought of was the killer sphere from PHANTASM. Picture a flying ball that embedds itself into your forehead, drills a hole, then extracts all cranial fluids...powered by FreeBSD(TM)!
With uptimes that high, they're not going to be recent releases are they now?
Looks like a mutated dog penis or some weird lipstick thing.
Get a free ipod.
Not that it will stop me from using BSD, but the design is simply in execrable taste. What on earth were they thinking of? Something cool, bluish and understated would have been the thing. No shortage of examples. Even the new Mandrake is better. Or Mepis
At least it isn't blue, because then it would be a horny blue ball, which would give the wrong message (albeit perhaps accurate in regard to BSD users).
I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release.
Does this mean I have to rebuild my kernel?
After all, it is a daemon, right?
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But that is just FUCKING RETARDED... yet another blatant attempt to sacrifice FreeBSDs roots to pander to corporate morons who buy and implement software based on retarded, post-modern looking logos...
http://www.gamedaemons.net/
Logo looks awfully familiar. I know GD has been around for a little while.
3D shiny glossy bubbles are on the way out. I look at them and I squirm already. I cringe. Soon will look back on them and everyone will disown this fad.
You know the one, you give it to a toddler and then pull the switch out and then stand back as it shakes the snot out of them as they desperately try to hold on. Like this.
Sera
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It's like someone hit freebsd with the mac stick!
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.
Everyone knows that the Objektsynth "Deathstar" logo (created in 1996) was the first and best 3-D logo to ignore the constraints of the black and white print world. Of course I may be biased ;-)
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Before everyone with mod points decides to mark this "Troll," I used to digitize logos for an embroidery company back East for close to five years. The shaded version is impossible and the monochromatic/hi-contrast versions are unbelievably dull.
Logo design is an unpleasant process for everyone concerned, where technology takes a backseat to compromise between several factors:
- an original concept immediately recognizable at a hundred paces
- a design which uses colors but is recognizable as line art
- not easily convertible to genitalia by graffiti artists
- hopefully evoking something about the nature of the client/product (that IBM logo in the corner that Paul Rand designed evokes greenbar printouts or CRT pixels).
The computer industry is one of the worst at figuring these concepts out. Random objects (an apple? a penguin? WTF?), a nonsensical literalism of a GUI metaphor (candy-colored glass windowpanes?), or some kind of Nike-ism (the Atari fuji) are the rules rather than the exceptions (IBM, NeXT, Commodore). Then again, the quality of a logo obviously doesn't ensure success.
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That logo is a reason to defect to OpenBSD. :-(
I admire their artist - Ty Semanka? - who could also do nice Hawaii shirts, thus expressing the same relaxed art that was so nice about the old McKusick daemon renderings (a lot of little guys with fork running around light balls, symbolizing processes) or the friendly Hosokawa daemon in sneakers.
This is so corporate apple style without heart and artificial coolness.
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Great, so we've gone from something with ridiculous Satanic implications to something that looks like a sex toy.
Yup ... we're livin' in the naughties!
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
...antannae ball! Yeah baby!
I feel that the monochrome versions are exactly what you cited as good examples. They would look good on a business card or letterhead.
Just kidding, only wanted to see how the words "I like it" looked in this thread. They look quite forlorn.
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New Logo for BSD or Pepperoni Pizza ?
This logo is to close for comfort to this server company: http://www.gamedaemons.net/
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?
Cool, nice work Anton. If that's the official reflection.. hmm well it looks a bit like an A and a G. Or maybe that's just my imagination ??
Thats not to bad. I won't bother to share my entry it was scary and used too much pink :)
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I think the logo looks terrible. The name simply by itself would have been better.
I guess I should have submitted that... Oh well.
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I guess they didn't like the entry I submitted: http://bsdbox.us/
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yeah, that's what i'm talking about! elsewhere in this thread, orrin bloquy mentions some of the downsides of logo design, and i totally agree. a lot of what logo design requires is thought on how it will be reproduced in different media(print/web/silkscreen/embroidery/etc), and while i originally stated that the winning logo was appropriate(with various iterations for multi-purposes), after seeing references to game daemons. i think i'm gonna retract my original comment and make a general request that the other submissions be show, and that some community input be considered in a re-vote on the logo design!
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it's um... not a daemon.
A daemon is not a demon.
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Just a minor point but to actually start the war you need to go to Washington. Just sitting here in Texas won't get it done.
Also on a side note not all of us here in Texas voted for or agree with the fucktard in the White House and Texas alone didn't elect him. There's a whole bunch of other red states that share the blame for that one.
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Is it my mind in the gutter as usual, or do the horns remind anyone else of a male dog in a very happy mood?
...it evokes the Disney logo. It says, "It's not the head that counts, but what's sticking out of it."
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I think that'd make an awesome sex-toy for my wife and her girlfriend.
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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It is, isn't it? I don't like how it's kind of at an oblique angle judging by the horns, but there's no referent (like, eyes) to see where it's facing.
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
It looks like a WWII underwater mine with some of the pokey things missing.
I really like it. Modern, but with strong links to the Beastie of old. To paraphase Robbie Coltrane "Its like triple expansion steam engines: an idea so simple you are convinced that given enough paper and a desert island, you'd come up with it yourself... of course you never would".
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
That's a silly logo.
How ya like dat?
*sigh*
smash
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
Its too 'cute' to stand the test of time, like the good old AT&T deathstar will, for example.
Its also rather abstract. If you dont know about the daemon, you wont have any clue what the hell it is.. " a ball with horns ".
Logos should be a direct statement, and easy to figure out as its part of the 'marketing'. You dont want to make your potential customers have to work to figure it out.
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Did someone cut the legs off a Cuz dog toy? Well I guess the good news is if Mozilla needs a new mascot we know where they can look.
It looks like less-detailed version of the OpenBSD blowfish! ;)
I didn't think that the hydrogen electron orbit looked like that.
Her face isn't all that pretty, her figure is simply OK and I've seen better hair on Kansas farm girls. There's two girls that work at the freakin' Microcenter that look better than her, and the Microcenter seems to make ugly a hiring criteria.
Is it just that she isn't one of the usual obese, dumpy, homely hangers-on at the weekend D&D session, like the blonde woman in the background of the photo?
I just dont like it :S
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Sig out of date
Remove the final '/' of each one...
Maybe he was doing a slash-dot test ?
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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!
You first recognize you had an image problem with christians. Then you decide you need a new logo. I personnaly applaud the move. Then you mess it up by choosing a red ball with horns.
Congrats for the extreme makeover.
And no I don't watch that much Pokemon.
I figured as much. It's Digimon that uses the "-mon" suffix on the names of varieties. In Pokémon, you might get names such as "Beastie" (the mascot of *BSD) or "Flameon" (like #136 Flareon).
Good job otherwise :)
I ate one of those the other day.
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Does anyone have a photo-list of the other top entries?
Please, someone, please redesign that hideous GNU logo.
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Good overall design (looks best in black/white IMHO), but get rid of the horns. They're just not cool and although the logo is less 'playful' than the previous logo it still looks unprofessional to me.
Sample this!
I never saw the Freebies admit that the problem was at all to do with religion. There was a need for a better logo that they could be identified with in business; the Beastie remains the mascot but is copyrighted to a particular artist whose kindness they have been glad to receive. Thus a new logo was needed.
w00t, I read a comment somewhere about the new FreeBSD logo looking like kirby(the nintendo blob thing which swallow air).
:D
You can all judge by this gif animation I made , I feel its a damn good match.
There's no face!! It's a faceless ball with horns!! No face = no character. This would never have come out of Japan. Where's the cute daemon face? Ah shit.
I have read part of comments. Some peaple silently likes new logo, some loudly cries that it is bad. Anyway, i like my work, and think that I'll continue working with new logo. If freebsd community decide on to change logo, it is their decision :)
New graphics based on logo is coming soon on www.freebsdlogo.org
Anton Gural
Pauline Kael in The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/ quotes Greta Garbo at seeing "Beauty and the Beast" by Jean Cocteau.
She thought the unencumbered actor was a disappointment without all those details.
(Alas, only the Disney cartoon review (1991) is online)
Then it would resemble the Napster logo - sigh. Bring back the Beastie!
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
As a Christian and personally, I and everyone I know would seriously laugh at anyone who took Chuck as an anti-Christian or anti-religious image. I like Chuck, he's not going anywhere. Finally, I like the new logo. Way to go!
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