[boost] Re: Logo design

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-23 15:16:08

Very cool - how about animating the flames?

Robert Ramey

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:uvfbwqryr.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> Deane Yang <deane_yang_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
> > David Abrahams wrote:
> >> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >> D> Miro Jurisic <macdev_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >>
> >>>> I don't mean to put down anyone's effort, but some of the logo
> >>>> sketches were, well, terrible. I think that a number of people
> >>>> here have had interesting ideas in terms of what the logo might
> >>>> contain (whether it's a rocket or angle brackets), but very few of
> >>>> the resulting images were esthetically pleasing. My proposal is
> >>>> that we take a small set of possible ideas to someone with graphic
> >>>> design skills.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am not implying we have nobody like that here, I just think this
> >>>> is very quickly degenerating into a shed-painting discussion, and
> >>>> I think we can save everyone a lot of time by picking 1-3 ideas
> >>>> (e.g., "boost rocket") and having someone adept of converting
> >>>> ideas into images work with that.
> >>>>
> >>>>meeroh "I can't draw to save my life, and I know it"
> >>>>
> >>>> PS. I think a design which simply reads "boost" and has the letter
> >>>> t be the rocket would work well
> >>>
> >>>Like the one on slide 3?
> >>>
> >>>  http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.ppt
> >> Now updated and improved.
> >
> > I agreed with Miro, but I have concede that your latest attempts
> > (slides 2 and 4) don't look too bad to me. But I don't like the look
> > of the slanted C++ in the background. For one I don't see the point
> > of stacking (staggering?) the "++". With the rocket there, is there
> > really any need to stylize the "C++"?
>
> The staggered "+" symbols are how we get the "s" in Boost.
> We could just remove the "C++", of course, as in slide 3 of the
> current version at
>
> http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.ppt
>
> --
> Dave Abrahams
> Boost Consulting
> http://www.boost-consulting.com
>
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