Design contribution

[Honshubloc]

Hello I´m a graphic designer looking for cool open source projects to make a graphic contribution, for free of course :P δm wondering if you are interested in a new logo for your project.

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[OpenSmalltalk-Bot]

On 18-06-2018, at 8:14 AM, HonshuBloc notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello I´m a graphic designer looking for cool open source projects to make a graphic contribution, for free of course :P

Well that's very kind of you; there's certainly plenty of scope for better graphic design of many of our tools. And indeed our website might benefit from some tweaking.

δm wondering if you are interested in a new logo for your project.

We've been happily using the current one for 22 years now, so probably not. Of course, I'm biased since I designed it.

tim

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[eliotmiranda]

Hi Honshu,

On Jun 18, 2018, at 8:14 AM, HonshuBloc notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello I´m a graphic designer looking for cool open source projects to make a graphic contribution, for free of course :P δm wondering if you are interested in a new logo for your project.

don’t my let Tim put you off. We’d be delighted to have a look at your designs. Perhaps you could go something for the Cog logo for the opensmalltalk vm (used by Squeak and others): http://opensmalltalk.org/

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[bencoman]

On 19 June 2018 at 00:47, OpenSmalltalk-Bot notifications@github.com wrote:

On 18-06-2018, at 8:14 AM, HonshuBloc notifications@github.com wrote:

Hello I´m a graphic designer looking for cool open source projects to make a graphic contribution, for free of course :P

Thanks for the offer.

δm wondering if you are interested in a new logo for your project.

We've been happily using the current one for 22 years now, so probably not. Of course, I'm biased since I designed it.

Tim, I guess you referring to the Squeak logo ( http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/files/page17_1.jpg) which is well established. But I don't think we've long had the OpenSmalltalk "Cog" logo ( http://opensmalltalk.org/static/img/cog.png/). While its workable, its but a bit "complicated" for a logo.

Now that we have Spur and Sista as technology components that extend Cog, it might be good to base a logo on more generic concepts that distinguish us:

1. message passing between objects
2. object-oriented execution engine

Are those reasonable? What other distinctions are important compared to other systems, and how should they be prioritized for a logo?

cheers -ben

[OpenSmalltalk-Bot]

On 18-06-2018, at 4:15 PM, Ben Coman notifications@github.com wrote:

Tim, I guess you referring to the Squeak logo ( http://www.rowledge.org/tim/squeak/files/page17_1.jpg) which is well established.

Indeed! It's everywhere.

But I don't think we've long had the OpenSmalltalk "Cog" logo ( http://opensmalltalk.org/static/img/cog.png/). While its workable, its but a bit "complicated" for a logo.

This is very true; the small gear teeth details are problematic when small. A new view on that would be nice.

Where I think a fresh set of skilled eyes would really help is the in-image look. Font choices and menu icons etc. Color sets.

tim

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