[FOSS4G2016] our Logo

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Jeff,

do you have any contacts to Nicolas? Maybe it's worth contacting him 
directly. Also because we just started to prepare the first draft of the 
website... ;-)

Thanks so far, Till




Am 2015-05-20 16:52, schrieb Jeff McKenna:
> I would side with using design talent within our community, or a
> professional designer (meaning: not using 99designs etc).
>
> For within our community: I am very impressed with Nicolas Bozon,
> from France: he created the FOSS4G-Asia logo
> (http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/), as well as the entire site for
> FOSS4G-Como (http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/).  Maybe Dennis could 
> ping
> Nick for some input as well.
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2015-05-20 1:40 PM, Volker Mische wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 05/20/2015 01:15 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
>>> now with both drafts ...  (just learning to work with that strange
>>> webclient ;-) )
>>
>> Thanks, they are really similar, I like the one with the lower "4"
>> better though.
>>
>> Where does the blue color come from? After looking up on Wikipedia 
>> the
>> colors of Bonn seem to be red-yellow-red [1]. I think it would make
>> sense to reflect that in the logo.
>>
>>
>>> Noted your mention about a professional designer - but I would 
>>> prefer
>>> save some money on that side and also not knowing that a 
>>> professional
>>> designer will do a better job. A third way would be to use a 
>>> platform
>>> like "99designs" or sometzhing similar. In my eyes we still have 
>>> some
>>> time to go the other way and try that out.
>>
>> I'm also not sure about a professional designer, I just wanted to
>> mention it.
>>
>>> And regarding the 2014-logo: It's always after ones fancy ... ;-)
>>
>> :)
>>
>> [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtfarben
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    Volker
>>
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