[libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] LibreOffice Mascot

Heiko/all,
I am a big fan of freedom, openness, collaboration & the kinds of things
that Libre Open Office and open source stands for. That said, a lot of the
logos did look a bit cartoonish, kiddy cartoonish to me, which is not good.

I am a big fan of the Seabiscuit horse. (Credits: Laura Hillenbrand),as
well as Tux (the penguin) and more recently Kali Linux logos, which looks
fierce.

In any event, here are some suggestions:
1) pitch the idea to Vint at Google & see what he suggests. he is the
"Father of the Internet" and a mentor for my makerspace project.

2) I like the image of the Phoenix, sort of like the cat with 9 lives,
except the Phoenix goes down in flames & arises again every 500 years or so
:-)

I feel the Phoenix symbol (will send in next email) is very powerful,
elegant and symbolic of the upstart, little guy seeking a competitive edge.

Pls google up phoenix meanwhile.

Thanks, Cal
Cal Tiger, cofounder
Siliconbeach llc
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On Mar 31, 2017 3:51 AM, "Heiko Tietze" <tietze.heiko@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> additional to the unique branding of LibreOffice today, we want to
> introduce an alternative to TDF's trademarked logo/icon elements that can
> be used by the community with minimal restrictions: a mascot.
>
> The idea is similar to "Duke" from Java (https://kenai.com/projects/
> duke/pages/Home), SuSE's chameleon "Geeko", Mozilla has a
> lizard/godzilla/tyrannosaurus, Linux' "Tux" is famous, KDE is going with
> the dragon "Konqi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqi) and Krita has
> "Kiki" (https://krita.org/en/kiki/).
>
> The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs to be
> creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc. Ideas for the
> realization are of course also welcome. The mascot could be an animal like
> a (grumpy old) cat to refer to the seven lives of LibreOffice or something
> more symbolic.
>
> Based on your input we would later start the actual design task, and
> ideally have a few options where the community can choose the best.
>
> Cheers,
> Heiko
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> Tel. +49 (0)179/1268509
>
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