plenario icon - Githubissues

jcgiuffrida commented 10 years ago

This is a discussion we should all be part of - what ideas do we have for plenario's branding?

color
logo/icon
tagline
feel of the site (flat, round, skeuomorphic, what have you)

For example, take the icon - I put a working one up as a placeholder but it may be a good candidate. It matches our current color (red?) and brings in a few good connotations:

looks like (in fact is derived from) the seating chart for a sitting body, i.e. "plenary session"
lots of distinct elements come together into a whole image
looks like an archway, which hearkens back to the original branding discussion in which we talked about the Plenario platform being like a physical structure
is also the intersection ∩ sign, which is fitting for the sort of queries we're running
with a few tweaks, could also resemble the Ω symbol for the other meaning of plenary="full, whole"

Not tied to this at all, it took me 10 minutes to make and is intended as a placeholder.

What do you all think, regarding both logo but also the other branding elements mentioned above? The U Chicago team has zero branding expertise (see "WOPR") and we're happy to listen to any and all ideas.

jcgiuffrida commented 10 years ago

Worth noting that the icon as portrayed in https://github.com/datamade/plenario/commit/a6bf3bf4d9a278ca5c4be63e672248f1d2849f65 is not the final version, just a mockup. We are looking for a professional to give us feedback before committing to that icon, after which (if we go with it) it would be edited and stylized.

derekeder commented 10 years ago

@lucaluca are we good to close this?

jcgiuffrida commented 10 years ago

I am getting the finished icon today or tomorrow. I'll close it when it's uploaded to the site.

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jcgiuffrida commented 10 years ago

Closed as of https://github.com/datamade/plenario/commit/2d56ebdcc974716d5d7aa9f67087c3e18b6295f5

UrbanCCD-UChicago / plenario

plenario icon #44