[Live-demo] Revisiting graphics

[maplabs at light42.com]

in hndsight, it would have been better to bring the executive level in 
sooner. That was an error on my part. Also I recognize it might have 
been startling to see this images without any warmup, especially some 
of the recent alt drafts. Thank you for your patience. I hope that we 
can resolve all of many, many small pieces, too, and make a great 
product for a great show. 

best regards from the SF Bay Area
  -Brian

On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:11:03 -0700, Tyler Mitchell  wrote:
On 2011-08-23, at 9:32 PM, maplabs at light42.com wrote:
>
> > You are in effect defending the logo as is for the conference.. without
> > change, in all cases.. Do you really think that knot on the banner is a
> > successful, balanced element in the design? and in a stretched,
> > enlarged version, is this really going to look good?  I retreated away
> > from the knot because it strikes me as ungainly. i suspect I am not the
> > only one to notice this.. Is it really necessary to scrap a polished
> > piece of work, to substitute this logo?
>
> Should "defending" the official logo really be necessary?
>
> Acceptable official logo usage was beat to death on the marketing 
> list already.  The FOSS4G organising committee used a designer that 
> gave us several options and we used a community voting process.  This 
> sort of vetting may seem unprofessional but the idea is to get it in 
> front of as many eyes as possible to get an honest assessment of 
> appeal and overcome our personal biases.  In this case we didn't only 
> "suspect" what people thought but actually requested it and 
> considered it.  I'm sure you did your vetting, so won't belabour the 
> point, but overriding that kind of input (e.g. that we got for the 
> logo) does not encourage collaboration unfortunately. 
>
> It's late, I grant that and won't bother you more on it ... this 
> week.  We'll make it an important topic for future marketing 
> meetings.  It just shows me we have some more work to do in making 
> the marketing ties across projects like this a bit tighter. 
>
> Thanks for elucidating your rationale. 
>
> Tyler
>
>