[FOSS4G2016] our Logo

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Till,

I think Nick would be very happy to provide feedback and/or his touch to 
the site or logo.  Definitely contact him.   nicolas.bozon(at)gmail.com

-jeff




On 2015-05-20 12:02 PM, till.adams at fossgis.de wrote:
> 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
>>>