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. --------------------- 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 : > 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 > > > > > > 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): > > > 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): > > > > > > 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 > > - pan flute icon > > > I hope that these ideas might trigger some further thoughts... > > Tristano > > > > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/pandoc-discuss/1bKIuyBnWaQ/unsubscribe. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > > To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/b4138da6-e959-46f2-a55d-11e204f4539c%40googlegroups.com > > . > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. 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