battikh
and doesn't tux looks more like an egg rather than a penguin?
it's a cartoon. since when caricatural cartoons look like portraits?
J4D
@ arithma : ilak minni kilmten 3ala janab :P
rolf
Xsever wroteI have roughly done the modification rolf suggested,
This is more what I had in mind:
J4D
@ rolf : when are we getting our Independence off this miserable country :P we will take your google eyed creature as a flag :)
arithma
This one definitely looks really geeky.. I hope we can get some designers opinion about this.
How about making the brain a bit more cartoony, 2D instead.. Think T-Shirts..
My 2 nickels
mir
this is why geeks should not be let anywhere close to a graphic design job
arithma
Shouldn't that be reflected in a logo? In that sense, a good geek logo should be a bad one by graphic design standards?
Anyone crazy enough to be a taker?
battikh
can someone kill me please?
Xsever
mir wrotethis is why geeks should not be let anywhere close to a graphic design job
I am imagining your face while saying that. Hilarious! :D
J4D
isn't it always this way around here :D
you can't get no satisfaction s-a-t-i-s-f-a-c-t-i-o-n ( listen to the song , you most probably have it :P )
battikh
applies on who? the ones not satisfied with the current logo? or the ones not satisfied with the "alternatives"? lets face it, you can't really blame the people who didn't like the alternatives :P
plus, some here ARE satisfied... with the current one.
samer
arithma wroteShouldn't that be reflected in a logo? In that sense, a good geek logo should be a bad one by graphic design standards?
Anyone crazy enough to be a taker?
You can be a design geek. If you take definition 2 from the Oxford english dictionary:
/geek/
noun informal
an obsessive enthusiast.
source:
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/geek?view=uk
J4D
battikh wroteapplies on who? the ones not satisfied with the current logo? or the ones not satisfied with the "alternatives"? lets face it, you can't really blame the people who didn't like the alternatives :P
plus, some here ARE satisfied... with the current one.
applies on both :P the unsatisfied with the current logo , and the unsatisfied with the new proposals :P and yeah off course i cant blame anyone for not liking the new proposals sorry guys but i think they are all rubbish including my proposals :) if only we had a graphics designer over here , i made a couple and im ashamed to have them as a logo especially the WAZWAZA :D
edit:fixed spelling
Ayman
applies on both :P the unsatisfied with the current logo , and the unsatisfied with the new proposals :P and yeah off course i cant blame anyone for not liking the new proposals sorry guys but i think they are all rubbish including my proposals :) if only we had a graphics designer over hear , i made a couple and im ashamed to have them as a logo especially the WAZWAZA :D
Same here, I didn't like mine either, the current one is still best :)
arithma
battikh
worst worst worst case scenario, i think it should be kept as is and just remove the head, put a normal "G" and just keep it as text (without the arabic caligraphy, it makes it too ungeek :P).
geeks often use notepad or text editors, so text only without formating or pics is common
tags, even though usually used by coders, are often used by geeks in general (not just coders) on forums for things like <edit></edit>, <sarcasm></sarcasm>, ...
so <lebgeeks> makes sense.
samer, can you please send the logo without the head, with just a normal "G" so that we can compare?
rolf
These are mostly ideas, not really logos.
BTW, I laughed myself to death yesterday when I read the rest of the thread.
On a more serious note, I find arithma's proposal (the 5 tuxes) to be the best, and maybe the only one that looks better then the current logo, but the problem being that it lacks originality, i mean it is a photo grabbed from the net, can we use it?
As for using tuxes, since they're multiple tuxes i think its not so bad because pinguins also symbolize geeks in a way, and the different uniforms symbolize the diversity here.
BashLogic
the tux is so like yesterday.. btw, lets not forget that the tux originates from linuxs mascot which this forum doesnt orient on alone. in addition the official linux mascot is no longer the penguin!!
I still vote for the current logo. it has the right touch.
J4D
im with battikh on this one , count his vote twice .
arithma
Just as a matter of note: The tuxes were all each on their own. I cut and paste them together. So you won't find the exact same picture somewhere else. The individual tuxes though, I can't guarantee their originality.. I got it from a stupid old CD that I got
Anyway, my piece was just an idea, to show the power of many, and indeed diversity. I happen to like those ideas..
As for the other penguin (with the american flag, the french bere and the chest hair, I drew it by myself, over a regular tux)
If in case I have to settle for something, I'd settle for a "LebGeeks" set in "Courier New" font.
