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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?
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.
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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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.
I guess BSD really is dead now :/
:D
It's not dead! It's KIRBY!
It's the daemonic counterpart of Bit from the movie Tron.
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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.
... on the good side:
1) Professional
2) Artsy
3) Modern
on the downside:
1) Bland
2) Soulless
3) Lacks Flavor
4) Lacks Style
Shadus
http://logo-contest.freebsd.org.nyud.net:8090/resu lt/640-1.png
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Will Ceren dress up like a ball now ?
Oh ya
... our new sex-toy/exercise-ball-thingies-built-for-two-ladie s mascot!
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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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 resent the weakening of our symbols of worship and connectivity.
As for your light-hearted use of "devilishly", you are an insensitive clod!
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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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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).
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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.
I kind-of like the new logo, but I thought the point was to get rid of the demonic look. What has short horns and is red? Sure, I know what the old logo looks like, but I wonder what the uninitiated will think this is? You know people try to identify shapes.