Dear community members, Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. Valeria Aguilera. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141116/89556f07/attachment-0001.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: logo nouveau.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 195934 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141116/89556f07/attachment-0001.jpg>
On 16.11.2014 21:03, valeria aguilera wrote:> > > > > > > > > > > Dear community members, > > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > Valeria Aguilera. >Never ask engineers for design, it will always bring out the cube. :) We all know Claudia would rather drive a german, but Valeria do you have something more fluid designed, something like a una macchina italiana. poma
Hey Valeria, I believe the penguin could be visually centered relatively to the vertical separator line and not the "n", since the vertical separator is the dominant visual guide. Right now it looks off. Other than that, great work! Thanks! -- Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
Hi Valeria, On 16/11/14 20:03, valeria aguilera wrote:> > Dear community members, > > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > Valeria Aguilera. >I'm not sure if you are a nouveau user or not, did you hear about nouveau and decided to do this logo or otherwise but I absolutely love the logo. I see no problems with being slightly off centre, the colour tones look great and I really like the penguin's posture. Thank you Emil
On 16/11/14 21:03, valeria aguilera wrote:> Dear community members, > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been > working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending > preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have > decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin > corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open > source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration > capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and > the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, > since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > > Valeria Aguilera. >Hi Valeria, Thanks for making this public! I would like to address here the "BSD not wanted" argument that seems to be implied by having a Penguin in the logo: - Nouveau does not currently run on any other kernel but Linux. I know that the BSDs are interested in porting Nouveau to their OS and I'm happy they are doing so, but I do not think any real development will happen on BSD unless both communities change heavily; - The architecture of Nouveau DRM has been thought to use as little dependencies to Linux as possible to ease porting (especially to work in the userspace). - Nouveau is under the MIT/X11 licence which is BSD-compatible! - Finally, historically, Nouveau has only been developed on Linux by Linux users. I personnally find the penguin extremely cute and I would rather want to keep it. I hope I have convinced you (and especially the BSD-hobbyists) that it does not mean we are hostile to BSD in any case! Cheers and thanks again for your contribution! Martin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141117/34fe0198/attachment.html>
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 21:55:59 +0100 Martin Peres <martin.peres at free.fr> wrote> On 16/11/14 21:03, valeria aguilera wrote: > > Dear community members, > > > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been > > working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending > > preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have > > decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin > > corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open > > source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration > > capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and > > the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, > > since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > > > > Valeria Aguilera. > > > > Hi Valeria, > > Thanks for making this public! > > I would like to address here the "BSD not wanted" argument that seems to > be implied by having a Penguin in the logo: > - Nouveau does not currently run on any other kernel but Linux. I know > that the BSDs are interested in porting Nouveau to their OS and I'm > happy they are doing so, but I do not think any real development will > happen on BSD unless both communities change heavily; > - The architecture of Nouveau DRM has been thought to use as little > dependencies to Linux as possible to ease porting (especially to work in > the userspace). > - Nouveau is under the MIT/X11 licence which is BSD-compatible! > - Finally, historically, Nouveau has only been developed on Linux by > Linux users. > > I personnally find the penguin extremely cute and I would rather want to > keep it. I hope I have convinced you (and especially the BSD-hobbyists) > that it does not mean we are hostile to BSD in any case! > > Cheers and thanks again for your contribution!Not attempting to take any *side* on the matter. But rather from a view to circumvent any such related "discussion", and *further* not attempting to take anything away from the artists hard work; but wouldn't an OS agnostic approach be the "ideal" candidate? Just saying. :) --Chris> > Martin
Hi Valeria, Very nice logo! Nice job! I like the ideas and the font. :) Just few remarks about the visual appearance: - A horizontally centered penguin would be better as the left part of the "n" appears thiner than the right one - The bottom line of the "e" appears a little short to me Thanks Christian Le 16/11/2014 21:03, valeria aguilera a écrit :> > > Dear community members, > > > Im a graphic designer and for the last couple of months I have been > working on a new logo for the Nouveau project. After sending > preliminary designs to both Martin Peres and Ilia Mirkin, we have > decided to share the logo in order to gather your feedback. > > > I would like to highlight that the logo incorporates a penguin > corresponding to the linux kernel components used to create this open > source driver. The 3D cube/shape represents the 2D and 3D acceleration > capability. The “n” simply stands for the first letter in Nouveau and > the green colour was chosen because the driver is for NVIDIA video cards. > > > Please provide Martin and Ilia with your comments and preferences, > since they both have been the ones giving me the design requirements. > > > Valeria Aguilera. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nouveau mailing list > Nouveau at lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141118/3354a53c/attachment.html>
On 17.11.2014 21:55, Martin Peres wrote:> I would like to address here the "BSD not wanted" argument that seems to > be implied by having a Penguin in the logo: > - Nouveau does not currently run on any other kernel but Linux. I know > that the BSDs are interested in porting Nouveau to their OS and I'm > happy they are doing so, but I do not think any real development will > happen on BSD unless both communities change heavily;As a FreeBSD developer, I take no offense in this logo and find it very beautiful in fact :-) Beside being the Linux mascot, I think Tux often represents Free Software in people minds. Of course some users will think that Nouveau is specific to Linux when they see this logo, but the day we work on porting the driver, it's our job to communicate the fact that it works on FreeBSD too. All in all, the logo won't stop us from stealing Nouveau :-) Congratulations Valeria for your work! -- Jean-Sébastien Pédron -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 949 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141118/bc95040d/attachment.sig>
On 18/11/14 00:18, Christian Costa wrote:> Hi Valeria, > > Very nice logo! Nice job! I like the ideas and the font. :) > Just few remarks about the visual appearance: > - A horizontally centered penguin would be better as the left part of > the "n" appears thiner than the right one > - The bottom line of the "e" appears a little short to me > > Thanks > ChristianHi Valeria, Christian's comments are indeed true. Could you address those concerns for the next update? I know that the penguin is asymmetric so it is hard to horizontally centre it but instead of centring it at its base, could you try to move it so as the general mass is better centred? With this done, I guess delivering the logo as an svg file along with its licence (have you had time to look at the creative commons?) would be a great step. It would also be nice to have one logo without nouveau written (for presentations) and one logo for the wiki (to replace the freedesktop logo: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/). Thanks again Valeria for your work! It is greatly appreciated :) Martin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/attachments/20141118/4f8836a1/attachment.html>