Re: debian-publicity@lists.debian.org
On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Tim Sailer wrote:
> In your email to me, Helmut Geyer, you wrote:
> >
> > bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens) writes:
> >
> > > For now any old logo will do. For the future, I'd like to see a logo
> > > for "Debian GNU/Linux: The Universal Operating System". Perhaps something
> > > with a spiral galaxy, or a spiral galaxy popping out of the face of a CRT.
> > >
> > Uh, I think I couldn't have come up with something I liked less.
> > I have the following problems:
> > - I think it's too complex for a logo
>
> I agree
>
> > - I can't see the connection to debian. Well, we could take it for
> > 'Debian in Space', but that's not all Debian is.
>
> Most logos have nothing to do with the thing they are related to.
>
> > - 'Debian GNU/Linux: The Universal Operating System' is far too much
> > text for a logo. It should be a simple Logo.
>
> A logo and a marketing slogan are different. A logo doesnt have text.
That's true, but IMHO our logo should be offered in both forms (with and
without the text below). Also, I'd like to see some completely new logos
without bulls or penguins. I see nothing wrong with a spiral galaxy. It
would be an analagy to the "Universal" nature of debian.
Syrus.
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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu> UCSD Physics Dept.
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