RE: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition

Hi,

two recent contests that I saw produce good designs include 
1) To create an international symbol for the Indian currency (Rupee) similar to the Dollar Mark $:
This was run in India and saw the creation of a new design, which has attracted strong opinions, 
both for and against, from everyone here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee 

2) Artwork by an 11 year old in India for a Google4Doodle competition
I believe that this got more attention mainly because of the artist's capabilities. 
But it did get strong publicity in India, a very large market for Google.
http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/14/stories/2010111461620100.htm

IMHO,
the logo for the product/brand should come from professional artists after a detailed discussion 
and analysis.
Once the logo is in place, and branding and marketing communications begin,
TDF could use a logo competition for publicity and marketing.
This competition could happen in the summer of 2011, when school is out.

thanks
Dhiren Jani
Gujarat, India

> From: commerce@traduction.biz
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:00:21 +0800
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Logo/mascot competition
> To: marketing@libreoffice.org
>
> Hi, :-)
>
> I've been watching this thread accumulate some responses to the idea
> of a logo competition, and I also had responses in a couple of
> off-list messages, so I guess one could say that I've been answered.
> To summarize: "No - in any case, certainly not at this time. Maybe a
> narrower process involving a small selection of designers, basically
> within an in-project design team, possibly giving rise to a few
> variants to be chosen from."
>
> In any case, I'm glad there's fresh input from the people taking an
> interest from Ubuntu Artwork. John and Thorsten both seem to favor an
> organized and methodical approach [1] and, IMHO, that would be very
> beneficial. I hope their involvement is going to be a regular,
> on-going thing.
>
> Anyway, I'll be looking forward to seeing what this all produces. :-)
>
> David Nelson
>
> [1] http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Briefing-td1909896.html#a1909896
>
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