Mozilla Azerbaijan logo

mastizada commented 7 years ago

Goal:

A logo for Mozilla Azerbaijan community

Info:

It will be used in www.mozillaz.org (we are currently redesigning website) and in community accounts (twitter, facebook and etc.). Also we will print some stickers with new logo.

Style Information:

We mostly use "mozillaz" (mozilla azerbaijan) as a name for community. Azerbaijan is known as "Land of Fire". Some logos: http://imgur.com/a/tqtyE We would like to match new style guide that is currently is under development.

Deadline:

No deadline currently, we will use custom moz://az logo till new one.

Tag:

[Design Needed]

elioqoshi commented 7 years ago

Thanks @mastizada! We are working on Community Branding Guidelines and are doing some first pilots already. Once we have something in place we can tackle yours as well.

barrosgeraldo commented 7 years ago

Hi @mastizada, I was reading the Azerbaijan country profile BBC, really beautiful. I understood some things and I have questions:

"Fire land". Is it something that makes sense to the country? Is it something that makes sense today?
Can you tell me something that represents your country? Anything beyond the fire?
You have more ideas of logos to inspire us and to better understood the background?
Colors? Flag colors?

I had some ideas for the icon: pixelated fire, illustration of the 3 towers (on the image), illustration of country map, illustration of flag, initial of country's name + internet protocol ://.

mozilla-azerbaijan.pdf

mastizada commented 7 years ago

Hi @barrosgeraldo, thanks for helping)

"Fire Land" or "Land of Fire" is one of the interpretations of the word "Azerbaijan" and Zoroastrianism was major religion in country (warship of fire). As Azerbaijan has rich oil and gas resources there were places with not-ending fire and such places became temples (current active temple is Ateshgah - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ateshgah_of_Baku). Also its promoted in international events as a symbol of the country. The building in the background that you made, is called "Flame Towers", it has flame shape and also fire animation.
I think its definitely is oil. Oil fields of Baku are in use since 9th century (Nobel brothers and their oil company in Baku, first offshore oil drilling and etc.). Mud volcanoes are also popular. For last few years, Zaha Hadid's Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Center) became very popular. Found such an article: http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/planatrip/inspire-me/lists/ten-interesting-facts-about-azerbaijan?page=all
Detailed information for flag and its RGB color map is available here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Azerbaijan

So, yeah, mostly country is associated with fire (fire in cave dated to 1.5 million years old, warship of fire) and oil. As for community, we call ourself "Mozillaz" with "az" at the end (country code) and domain is mozillaz.org - but we couldn't find any idea for the logo.

barrosgeraldo commented 7 years ago

I will wait for more information about branding for communities and I will back to this since we have a good background but no clear guidelines for communities.

mastizada commented 5 years ago

We started using this as a favicon: black-logo white-logo

Currently there is black, white and transparent one, thinking about using it in website. It looks ok for a favicon, no idea for logo yet. It might be terrible as I have no idea in design and created using Gimp.

PS. These are flag's colors.

kindavishal commented 5 years ago

What's the status here? @mastizada if the community has accepted a logo, please close this issue. Thanks!

mastizada commented 5 years ago

@kindavishal the image above is for favicon, a simple temporary thing created in Gimp for social network accounts and website. But we still don't have a logo and not sure about the quality of this favicon.

pransh15 commented 5 years ago

@mastizada so, the logo is still needed. Well, let's just keep this open then.

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