[Ichthux-devel] Ichthux Logo was Re: [sword-devel] Re: Christian Debian distro talk / Report

[Daniel Glassey]

fournilgilles at free.fr wrote:
> hi Nigel, hi all,
> 
> your ideas are very good.
> 
> ok for me concerning the name of the project
> 
> concerning your drawing, to have the fish look down makes it look depressive to
> me ...
> how about face looking upward and with a smile on his face ?
> 
> I find it awesome that christians from literaly all over the world and from its
> farthest corners join together to work on the same project !

I like the idea of an upward heading fish as well.

I can't draw at all but how about a swirl in the same way that the 
Debian one is and have the fish heading upwards on the inner part of the 
swirl. Er, kinda like what I've attached but a different scale.

d


>>Hi all,
>>
>>We're obviously going to need a logo for this ICHTHUX thing (which I
>>humbly suggest is the best title of those thus far mooted, in regard to
>>fishiness, for instant recognition amongst Christians, and
>>web-uniqueness, for domain name availability and search engine results).
>>
>>Here are my suggestions for what the logo needs to achieve:
>>
>>1. It has to focus on the 'fish'; that's what signals to Christians the
>>nature of the project.
>>
>>2. But it has to avoid the 'standard', horizontal, 2 dimensional, rather
>>static, Christian fish of bumper-sticker fame -- rather it needs to
>>communicate something living and vibrant.
>>
>>3. In spite of the nice "HTH" in the centre of the word, it's more
>>important to reinforce the fish meme than to try and capitalize on the
>>possible 'cross' associations.  They look rigidly geometric rather than
>>organic, in any case, which is bad.
>>
>>I've attached a photo of a sketch of one possible idea. I'm not going to
>>explain it at this point, since if logos need to be explained, then
>>they've already failed.
>>
>>Comments are welcome. If it gains mindshare I'll turn it into vector
>>art, colorize it, make GIFs and JPEGs, etc.
>>
>>I'm very excited about this project; my own work in the area (web based
>>Bible search tools) would not have been possible without the Sword
>>library and its Diatheke interface. I wasn't awake at 4am Sydney time
>>for the start of our talk, but I expect to be catching up with more of
>>you next time around.
>>
>>Blessings,
>>Nigel Chapman
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