Bryen M Yunashko - 12:20 15.05.12 wrote:
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 18:19 +0200, Michal Hrusecky wrote:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_Logo_anditosan.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_logo_final_03.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_Logo2_anditosan.png
Geekozilla :-D From my side awesome! And Geeko even looks a little bit angry like he is going to crush the city (in the literal sense, but will be doing that in the other one). Simple enough, high contrast, can imagine in even in b/w.
btw. Like the first one the best.
Although I really like Geekozilla picture, I showed it a little bit around and didn't received only awesome feedback. So what other negative feedback I got (will left out positive one as positive one isn't constructive, sorry for sounding too negative): 1) Why Warhol? I personally don't like him that much, but that apart, what is his connection to openSUSE, Prague or anything? What we are trying to say with Warhol? If we want to go with famous artist which had some connection to this years conference, we can go for Mucha[1]. 2) Colors. This is actually going to have two parts :-D a) Why do we have openSUSE branding palette[2] if we are ignoring it? General rant that our promoting materials are not really following strong branding guide... b) Colors are weird and doesn't reference Warhol and the reference to Warhol is weak anyway so people are not going to put it together, so it leaves out just weird colors. 3) I was told that it doesn't send any message. That as a picture it's ok, but we are trying to use it as logo or a poster to promote our conference so it should scream openSUSE, conference and Prague. And this doesn't scream anything according to the feedback.
If I had to choose one of the three, it would be #2. It would definitely elicit at "WTF is that?!?" look from passerbys. And that's always a good thing because it generates conversation no matter whether the content was a good or bad impression.
Well, we want to promote our conference so I would say that we want leave a good and great impression. "WTF is that?!?" can also mean I clicked somewhere wrong, where is my back key...
These designs are meant for one primary purpose, to promote the Conference. It's a marketing thing and marketing isn't always about creating visual pleasntries, its about creating engagement and conversation any way possible.
I would say that this could work on booth, if they are stunned by something they just saw, it's easy for people at booth to grab them and start talking to them :-D But on web if I feel appealed by artwork, I'm going to read at least a little bit of text and share it around even if I'm not really interested in the subject. If I'm interested and I don't like the artwork, I'm going to read but much less chance of return/show it to friends/share it. I didn't wanted to sound as negative as I sound, I really appreciate it especially as I can't create anything better, but wanted to relay feedback I got to make it all better ;-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfons_Mucha [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Help:Colors -- Michal Hrusecky <Michal@Hrusecky.net> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org