Graphic designer needed! Mobbler should have its own application icon.

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Mobbler currently uses an old Last.fm logo for its applcation icon. 
Mobbler should have its own application icon for a few reasons.  Mobbler is
not made by Last.fm so I don't think that the icon is really appropriate. 
It would be nice for Mobbler to have its own 'brand identity'.  I think the
current icon is creating issues for people on the N82 task manager menu
thing (not sure why).

The icon should be SVG.  Here is a guide on how to create an SVG
application icon for S60. 
http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/How_to_create_application_icon(SVG)_in_S60
_3rd_edition

Original issue reported on code.google.com by eartle@gmail.com on 19 Dec 2008 at 6:55

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Mobbler has a wunderful nice icon with the "Only Black" theme by Babi (v6), and
probably with some other themes too.

Original comment by gregorw....@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2008 at 3:24

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Thanks for the tip off!

Attached is a screenshot, actually from the Darkness theme.
http://www.babinokia.com/2008/12/28/darkness/

I remember Babi makes some very nice themes, and I'm impressed that nearly all 
the 
apps, including third party ones, have had new icons designed.

"All themes posted on babinokia.com are free for personal use and released 
under a 
Creative Commons License*. All Trade Marks and Images are owned by respective 
owners 
and all rights goes to them. If you find a theme where your image is used, 
please 
notify us and we’ll link to your website or page for credits. Thank you for 
your 
collaboration."

* Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Generic

http://www.babinokia.com/copyrights/

Original comment by hugovk@gmail.com on 28 Dec 2008 at 6:44

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Yes, that's it! The logo contained in the "Only Black" theme is almost 
identical,
just the colouring is slightly different. I think, the idea of this picture is
distinctive and of exeptional clarity, and still of absolute simplicity. And
beautiful too! On that account, I could very well imagine a coloured version as 
the
Mobbler default application icon and logo.

Original comment by gregorw....@gmail.com on 29 Dec 2008 at 12:47

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Looks nice. I agree though that a default icon should be coloured. I appreciate 
that
a lot of themes ship with custom icons to fit in with the theme, but I think in 
terms
of user-friendliness a coloured icon stands out more in a menu and is therefore
easier to find. So as a default icon that ships with the app that's the way to 
go IMHO.

Another thing to consider is that the icon needs to stand out regardless of the
background image. For instance you may have a wonderful white icon that looks 
great
on a dark background but is invisible on a white background :-P (extreme 
example, I
know but I think you get the jist of what I'm saying)

I've made the icons for the S60 Putty app and Lightsabre app (
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_nash/sets/72157608449625215/ ) and am 
willing to
have a go at making one for Mobbler. I can't do it right away though due to work
commitments. When i have a bit of time I'll sketch something up and share it 
here for
feedback.

Original comment by cirrus.t...@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2009 at 5:52

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Sounds great to me!  The main thing for me is getting away from the audio 
scrobbler
icon and having something that identifies Mobbler in its own right.

I was thinking of something simple like a pair of quavers that looks like an 
'M'. 
The notes could also point to the right so that they look like the two 'b's in
Mobbler, but that is as far as my imagination got.

Don't let me stop you trying other things though as I'm sure you will have other
ideas or may think that that will look a bit rubbish.

Original comment by eartle@gmail.com on 12 Feb 2009 at 6:48

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well, flahorn's "Spring with Ladybug" has a nice modification of the original 
icon,
but still not something to identify mobbler with. maybe i'll have a go at 
illustrator
for this app ;)

Original comment by afzal...@gmail.com on 22 Mar 2009 at 8:59

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heres a jpg that i found while looking for an icon for mobbler, if someone would
convert it to svg, that would be great! (i dunno the author)

and ive tried Illustrator and Inkscape's tracing...maybe someone with more 
experience
could make it

Original comment by afzal...@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 7:50

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Thanks for the efforts! We have recently swapped the Last.fm icon we were using 
with 
another Last.fm SVG icon, so that at least should fix the N82 task manager 
problem.

But we really want something that's not a Last.fm image, like Eartle said, a 
unique 
'brand identity' for Mobbler.

So, let's get creative!

Original comment by hugovk@gmail.com on 21 Apr 2009 at 8:37

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Alrighty - I've had a go at making an icon (and a logo) for Mobbler. I'm 
attaching some versions of it (I have 
the originals as SVGs). The first (the "glossy" one) is what I'd ideally like 
the app icon to look like but S60 is 
very iffy with gradients so I'm not sure if I can get that one working. The 
next, "gradient", one is slightly 
simplified and would be my 2nd choice. If all else fails there's the "basic" 
flat one (though I could play around 
with outlines and/or a solid drop shadow to make it stand out a bit more).

I also made a "Mobbler" logo text to go along with this icon for stuff like the 
website and you can see it here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_nash/3611851890/

Please note, that I intend the shape to be the logo. The colour (and whether 
it's shaded, shiny or whatever) is 
flexible and can be changed to suit the usage.

I'd be keen on feedback on the logo itself and also the proposed app icons.

Enjoy!

(btw, regardless of the final app icon I was thinking a flat SVG of the logo 
could be uploaded somewhere so 
that S60 theme designers can download it and make versions that fit their 
themes yet retain the recognisable 
"Mobbler" brand)

Original comment by cirrus.t...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 7:40

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nice logo
i think the white to red gradient would suit better though

Original comment by afzal...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 8:14

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Glad you like the logo afzalive. As for the app icon, do you mean having a 
brighter version of 
"mobbler_icon_gradient.png" where the background goes from white to red or did 
you mean something else? 
Would you still want the 'M' in white on top or should that be a different 
colour?

Original comment by cirrus.t...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 10:45

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yeah..."m" looks very distinctive (which is good)

i meant it should be bright

Original comment by afzal...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2009 at 6:50

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I like it. 

The "m" is good, I think the white bit in the "m" is good. 

I think I might even prefer the basic one the best, the gradient one is good, 
and 
I'm not so keen on the black bit in the glossy.

I also quite like the shape, it's a bit like a plectrum :)  But something makes 
me 
thing the "m" doesn't quite fit in there yet, I can't quite put my finger on 
it; 
perhaps it's not quite centred or the shape itself isn't quite right. 

Original comment by hugovk@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2009 at 9:13

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I'm sure you don't need them, but I wrote down some tips earlier here:
http://code.google.com/p/mobbler/wiki/SVG

I've updated the icon on the Flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/mobbler/
using this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_nash/3673292876/in/pool-mobbler

I made an abortive attempt at making a userbar for folk on Last.fm to use in 
the 
signatures, I thought it would add the text itself. Anyway, it wasn't very 
good. 
When you have time, could you make a proper swish version? No rush, it's a very 
low 
priority request :)

http://userbarz.com/Search?q=mobbler

thanks!

Original comment by hugovk@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2009 at 7:51

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Just seen this. The shape of the icon is very nice! 

Although Mobbler should have it's own brand identity I think that it should be
immediately obvious to someone who knows Last.fm but not Mobbler to be able 
make a
connection between the two, for example, the logo of apps on the Ovi store are 
very
prominent so the logo really draws attention to the app. Right now, with the two
sharing the logo and no official Last.fm S60 app, people on the store will
immediately recognise it, some of this will be lost with a new logo.

How about using the same shade of red and gradient as the official logo?

Original comment by gw111zz@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 8:36

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Yes, I agree.  The Mobbler logo that we are going to use in the next version 
can be
found here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/james_nash/3673292876/

We've used the Last.fm red and have the M in white.  I think it gives Mobbler 
it's
own identity and looks a bit Last.fm-ish.  Maybe people won't immediately think 
it's
a Last.fm app just by looking at the logo, but I can't see how we could do any 
better
without putting the 'as' squiggle thing in there too.

Original comment by eartle@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2009 at 9:49

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Hey, I like the logo... how about doing a mirror image of the note, link it to 
the second part of the M and the note thus becomes a 'b' of Mobbler..:)

Original comment by jkforde on 18 Aug 2009 at 2:06

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jkforde -- there was a draft proposal with reversed notes that looked bs, but 
it 
lost the popular vote. Several people commented that the mirror-image quavers 
looked 
just wrong.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/mobbler/discuss/72157619927377928/
http://answers.polldaddy.com/poll/1713603/

I'll mark this issue as fixed, as the new logo is in the development version 
and 
will be in the next release. Thanks again Cirrus!

Original comment by hugovk@gmail.com on 18 Aug 2009 at 9:10

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