On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Michal Hrusecky <michal@hrusecky.net> wrote:
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].
Why Warhol - well, I thought, bootstrapping awesome... that's about new things. Warhol brought quite some new stuff in the world ;-) Also, he was crazy, fun and an interesting guy. Note that all that I just figured out now. We first had the geeko behind the city scene, then thought of a way to bring the 4 conferences together as one piece. Putting 4 colorful things on one single plate works, I thought, and then thought of this famous Warhol picture of Marilyn. Thought it was a fun reference to sixties pop art and the cool times back then. If you have a better way which references Praha instead of the US, cool - but we DO have to move quickly as this is taking too much time otherwise... There is lots more to do. If it's good enough I say we should move on.
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...
Sure. We can see if it would work with our branding palette - I'm sure andy and michael can give that a shot. But I think it's more important to have something cool and unique than something fitting our (very old and possibly not too relevant anymore) guidelines :D
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.
I would suggest that the colors are cool ;-) The original uses similar colors but we can play with that. In the end I think the artists should pick something which they think works and I'd happily stay out of their way - I suggest others do the same. We won't all like it perfectly anyway...
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.
It's very hard to make something which screams something clearly, but I think the Geeko towering over Praha is quite nice... Again, if anyone has better suggestions, cool :D <snip>
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.
Then again - there's no artwork which is liked by everyone anyway :D
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
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