On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Stella Rouzi (differentreality)
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Stathis Iosifidis (aka diamond_gr)
wrote: Στις 11/01/2013 06:52 μμ, ο/η Andres Silva έγραψε:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Robert Schweikert
wrote: On 01/11/2013 07:44 AM, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey Andres,
On 11.01.2013 02:25, Andres Silva wrote:
I thought of a couple of ideas today about a possible logo for osc 13. I tried looking for iconic ideas about Greek culture. Hopefully this early proposals can guide our thoughts.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o44ofzblyjp2f4e/2013-01-09%2019.19.14.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyzfosst9wji0od/2013-01-09%2019.17.55.jpg
Okay who does, decides! :-)
I especially like the second one.
+1
The first image would make a great stand up poster for the registration, I think.
Later, Robert
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I can work on both of them more over the weekend and see what comes out.
Andy (anditosan)
I liked them both. Andy, I wrote something on Trello about my city. If you can also come up with ideas about local logos:
There's a facebook page [1] with many pictures of my city.
The ultimate symbol is the White Tower [2].
Others are:
- Statue of Alexander the Great [3]
- Rotunda church (or mosque) [4]
- The arch of Galerious [4]
- International Trade Fair with the telecommunication tower [5]
- Castle of Thessaloniki [6]
There are also some places such as Ancient Market, Aristotelous square, Navarino square, Port, Ladadika etc
I guess you can figure something out of that.
Stathis
[1] https://www.facebook.com/thessaloniki.city [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tower_of_Thessaloniki [3] http://aphs.worldnomads.com/meggievoogt/29373/85.jpg [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Galerius_and_Rotunda [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thessaloniki_International_Trade_Fair [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptapyrgion_%28Thessaloniki%29
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Hey all :)
Friendly warning, this is one of those long emails of mine.
There was some controversy about the beach element. Maybe we can solve it and satisfy both sides (me being one of those that want the element of sea present).
One, of the many, characteristics of Thessaloniki is the fact that is built literaly next to the sea. Which means that in the center of Thessaloniki we have a promenade where you can walk next to the sea [1].
I think we can use a photo of tha promenade to show the element of sea without implying the totally relaxed scenery of beach/sun.
Moreover, the promenade at some points passes right in front of the White Tower (the main symbol of Thessaloniki) [2].
I was thinking we could use the following (as a horizontal header, basically for the website): Promenade, left side White Tower, right side some other monument. - Other monument: * That could be a part of the walls of Thessaloniki [3] or the Arch of Galerius [4] * Or we can use Aristotelous Square. [5] This is the most known square in Thessaloniki, it goes vertically in the center of Thessaloniki and ends up by the sea. It is a bit farther away from the White Tower, but if we use it, it will be as if we are showing a miniature (ok, a bit out of porportion compared to real distance) of Thessaloniki center (looking at it from the sea). There are excellent photos of Aristotelous Square at night (and the rest, promenade & White Tower could still be shown in daylight) and make some sort of contrast. (IF that would look nice, because my artwork skills are non-existent)
- Geeko: * We can have a geeko on the white tower (now our artist can further work with contrast and angles and blur to actually show the geeko clearly) * Or perhaps some family-geeko walking down the promenade towards the White Tower
Also, a long shot: It would look extremely sophisticated (and would depict some more historical and cultural sense, which is what we want to give) if we did not use photos but a hand sketch of all the above. @Andy: I saw you did the logo drafts by hand and I got ideas in my head. As I said, longshot but I thought it was worth mentioning just in case.
Logos:
Absolutely great logo drafts, both of them. I would not, however, go with the first one, because it reminds more of Parthenon (which is a major symbol of Greece, but is in Athens, not in Thessaloniki) and that could be confusing.
I find the connotation of the second really amusing actually (in a good way). It is interesting and definitely takes you to another era.
Depending on the header image, if we go with geek on white tower, that could also be made into a logo.
Or geeko with leaves (2nd draft) can be put on white tower. And we also have the idea of Juergen for geeko in thinker pose, which goes very very well with 2nd logo draft.
Motto/Theme: I am not very good at this, and I just want to make a note of sth. Going through all the emails that were sent over and over again, the words I saw made a pattern (if put in correct order), a pattern of Greece's history. There were words like culture, philosophy, history, freedom and then we have Power to the Geeko for possible motto and then we wanted some "Future" reference and to put a bit of the word play inside and associate it with critical thinking (maybe as in thinking before playing, sth like Robert mentioned).
So what comes in my mind, reads sth like that:
Past - Present - Future: Power to the Geeko History of the past has cultivated the greek culture of philosophy and critical thinking, and shaped the sense of democracy, as we know it today. As history went along, there was war and struggle to get Freedom for Greece. The fight for Freedom ultimately offered independence and (modern) democracy, which we presently enjoy. Thinking about the future, we have to preserve democracy and use it to people's best interest. Power has to come together with critical thinking for the general/wider good. Using one's power has to be about motivation of other people to create and build stuff using all their abilities, aiming to providing joy and well-being for everybody.
I hope that we all get how these things coincide quite a bit with openSUSE community, Jos presented most of it in his email.
We are definitely going for more power to the community, we have a more community-organized event this year and we intend to make it a successful one (defining successful as: having many interesting talks, increasing number of workshops so that some actual work can be done during conf, happy attendees that fulfill their goals to meet people, attend interesting presentations and leave with a bit of extra knowledge) So we have Power to the community (and prove that community can take the power and build stuff and take the community one step ahead), the power of the Geeko! Because geeko can! So we have to Think, Create and Develop.
Do you also see some combination of these texts as the next announcement we make about osc? The idea is that we make 1 announcement before we announce CFP, right? An announcement to give to people the whole concept behind the conf. Maybe some greek elements are nice (note how nicely Robert has already used in the call for volunteers the word plethora), even a bit of greek history (not boring endless lines, one-two lines if they can be combined with openSUSE history/goal/vision).
Now decision of motto is something that makes my life difficult, because I liked a bunch of them.
* Power to the Geeko [I like it because it goes straight to the point. The geeko has power. The geeko will now do stuff. Power to the Geeko. *Maybe* the word power has some bad connotations as well, but still it sounds strong and confident. ]
* Think, Create, Develop [This can be more like a sub-motto? And we can use it to finish the articles too. Think. Create. Develop. Power to the Geeko!]
* The voyage to freedom [This I also like a lot! I find it to fit nicely with greek and openSUSE history. Is it just me? Would nicely go at the end of articles too, I think. Think. Create. Develop. Off to the voyage to/for freedom. I like the fact that we put inside the word voyage which is french, the whole thing starts getting an actual international sense. And freedom implies power too in some way.]
* The port of freedom [Same as the above but I like voyage better.]
* Off to new shores: The Green Voyage [I am not sure if we want to talk about change (again). I feel I have heard about change quite a few in the project. Maybe we don't need to shout change any more, and focus to stability and certainty instead. Certainty also having an implication for steady/realiable software etc.]
Random note: Juergen wrote in his email "Power to ThesSUSEniki", in greek that actually read as "Power to the SUSE win" (niki = win in greek).
More inspiration for the artwork team could also be found in the geeko-stories video of Pavlos: http://blip.tv/openSUSEtv/geeko-stories-thessaloniki-greece-6470971
Links: --------- [1] Promenade in Thessaloniki: http://www.greeka.com/members/view_image_large.php?img=99351&username=lauramou
[2] The white tower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Tower_of_Thessaloniki
[3] The walls of Thessaloniki: - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Walls_of_Thessaloniki - http://blip.tv/openSUSEtv/geeko-stories-thessaloniki-greece-6470971 Go to 00:39 until 00:54 in the video
[4] The arch of Galerius: http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CF%81%CF%87%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%BF:THES_Arch_...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Galerius_and_Rotunda
[5] Aristotelous Square: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotelous_Square
http://bit.ly/VU61wQ http://bit.ly/VWk6HX http://bit.ly/13qBIRt
Thinking about the future references that were made, I have an alternative logo to propose. Instead of going with the more tranditional/retro design we are currently exploring, we could also consider a more futuristic one. A very modern photo of the white tower with a geeko on top of it: White tower photo taken during night, with the different lightning and all [1] with a photo of the huge geeko that we had in Prague [2]. Something that looks more modern and surrealistic, a very vivid image with bright shiny colors (like the ones used in posters for science fiction movies). Photos are of course samples, just so that you can get a rough idea of what I am talking about. [1] http://bit.ly/WSdokv [2] http://bit.ly/UgSBt1 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-conference+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-conference+owner@opensuse.org