Re: RFC: Designing Logo of Pandoc

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FYI: Mozilla released their new brand logo.

Arrival – Mozilla Open Design
https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/arrival/

Here is the design process like we are doing but better.

Design Route D: Protocol – Mozilla Open Design
https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/design-route-d-protocol/

What I want to say is:

- Power of design
- Importance  of branding

to spread Pandoc to the world.

Don't stop this moment!!
Keep talking, creating, brain storming, discussing.

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Then, as some people say, we need commitment of logo in this group (not
only in this thread).

I like the idea to release the final logo in the release date of Pandoc
2.0. Because meaning (like a story or literature) is important to be
impressively remembered for people.

My suggestion is:

1. Make a template to submit a logo candidate.
2. Make a voting system. (It's better to make it designer friendly. But I
don't know such kind of voting system. )
3. Do voting  in public way.

But I know that voting is not the only way in democracy (as Trump wins).

Do you have any other idea about the logo commitment?


2016年12月25日(日) 22:05 Tristano Ajmone <tajmone-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:

> Just doing a bit of IDEAS BRAINSTORMING here ... maybe it could trigger
> some better ideas.
>
> Pan-Flute
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_flute
>
> I've found this CC-BY 3.0 icon of a Pan flute:
>
> http://icon-icons.com/icon/pan-flute-musical-instrument/60110
>
>
> <http://icon-icons.com/icons2/661/PNG/256/pan-flute_icon-icons.com_60110.png>
>
>
> It's not the nicest I've seen, but it renders the idea.
>
>
> The Pan-flute should be easily reckognized as a symbol of Pan, yet it
> doens't necessary carry the weight mythology — it can be seen as just a
> musical instrument.
>
> This symbol would recall the word "PAN" in pandoc, but not really much
> more. I'm not sure what Pan's (the god) flute was used for, but I gather he
> is usually considered a shepperd-god.
>
>
> Tying-In With Existing Symbols/Vocabulary
>
> The issue already came up here: it's good the explore the pre-existing
> symbols in the (rather wide) field of documents (under which pandoc falls).
>
> For example: JFC's *Babelmark*. Both its name and logo recall the tower
> of Babel, a symbol which is well associated with the "confusion of
> languages".
> While in its context it refers to the confusion among markdown
> dialects/flavors, it could be taken as a general metaphor for the
> "confusion of standards" which pandoc aims to solve.
>
> https://babelmark.github.io/
>
> The logo is simple, and knowing the name of the tool (Babelmark) the
> mental association is quick (not so immediate if you are unaware of the
> tool's name):
>
> <http://babelmark.github.io/images/babelmark.png>
> Magician Hat
>
> Inflated as it might be, the magician's cylinder producing rabbits, card,
> or anything else, is a well know symbol representing quasi-magick
> productions.
>
> Maybe pandoc is a bit like the magician hat: it produces all sort of
> documents, almost auto-magically.
> The idea is to have some documents coming out of the hat — in a way to
> represent multi-formats.
>
> This is an example idea found on Google (can't actually use this):
>
>
> <https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/f1/fe/f0/f1fef06b6729def0464a5bdbd81de016.png>
>
>
> Just take the rabbit ears away, and put document icons, and maybe a magick
> wand.
>
> I've found some nice example icons with permissive license:
>
> http://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/magic-hat_108979
> http://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/magician-hat-and-magic-wand_53768
> http://www.iconarchive.com/show/outline-icons-by-iconsmind/Hat-icon.html
>
> Adopting an Aminal
>
> Another approach would be to arbitrarily adopt an animal as
> mascotte/symbol of pandoc.
> There is a long tradition in the computer world along these lines —
> snakes, gnus, squids, etc — so much so that almost every animal is already
> associated to a programming language or package of some sort.
>
> Surely, no one could really dispute this decision any more than one could
> dispute the right of Python language to use a python as its symbol, or Go
> lang using a gopher.
>
> People like animals, no doubt about it — and Python's snake hasn't so far
> scared off (nor bitten) anyone that I'm aware of.
>
> Of course, we should at least consider an animal that has some
> characteristics somehow related to pandoc's functionality.
> I can't think of any animal whose specialization is converting from
> markdown to html or PDF though. :-(
>
> But we might be looking for an animal with sort of intermediary role in
> nature, like an animal who is known for his symbiotic interactions with
> other species.
>
> Or like bees, which take pollen and covert it to honey; and they are also
> very industrious, and resemble a swiss-knife when you look at their
> "embedded tools" for collecting pollen.
>
> Links to Images
>
> Here are some links to Google images (black and white) results:
>
>
>    - translation icon
>    <https://www.google.it/search?q=symbol+universality&rlz=1C1CHFX_itIT498IT498&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=920&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0o9OpsI_RAhXMNFAKHaqBA8MQ_AUIBigB#q=translation+icon&tbm=isch&tbs=ic:gray>
>    - pan flute icon
>    <https://www.google.it/search?q=symbol+universality&rlz=1C1CHFX_itIT498IT498&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=920&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi0o9OpsI_RAhXMNFAKHaqBA8MQ_AUIBigB#q=pan+flute+icon&tbs=ic:gray,itp:clipart&tbm=isch>
>
> I hope that these ideas might trigger some further thoughts...
>
> Tristano
>
>
>
>
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