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

[Raphaël Pinson]

Wow Daniel I'm impressed !
Do you want me to include your logo on the logo page on the wiki ? ;)


On Apr 8, 2005 2:49 PM, Daniel Glassey <danglassey at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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