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

Do you want to be the company that is called "that louse office suite"?
I sure do not.

Remember in the USA "that louse" is what you use to tell people about 
other people who are bad, crook, and other negative things.



On 04/04/2017 04:12 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Heiko Tietze wrote on 31-03-17 09:51:
>
> > The first step would be to find some metaphors that enables designs
> > to be creative. Something like Freedom, Documents, Openness etc.
> Last week I was thinking about that LibreOffice is what we call, in
> Dutch, the "louse in the fur" of another office suite. Something that
> irritates, but you can't get rid of :)
> Of course that would need some excellent additional art work, to make it
> funny and attractive, but...
>
> https://www.shutterstock.com/zh/search/louse
> https://dylanwoodlouse.wordpress.com/tag/louse-christmas-songs/
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicky3zero/12532425354
> http://www.cps1998.com/louse-flea/
>
> For the rest I support comments that the mascot must be not too
> detailed, good stylized.
>
> > 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.
> Ah, fun too :)
>
> > 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.
> Good procedure. Thanks for starting this!
> Cor


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