[FOSS4G2016] our Logo

[Jeff McKenna]

By the way I spoke with his work partner Gerald today, and gave him a 
heads up that you might be contacting Nick.  Gerald said that Nick would 
be very happy to join in on the fun :)

-jeff




On 2015-05-25 11:09 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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
>>>>