[maemo-community] RFC - logo submissions

[From: nick loeve]

Hi

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Flegg <andrew at bleb.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dave Neary <dneary at maemo.org> wrote:
>> Andrew Flegg wrote:
>>>   #samantha - crayon person[1]:
>>>             fun and professional, energetic, agile, human.
>>
>>> [1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Image:Maemo.org_logo_contest_samantha_1.png
>>
>> Funny enough, I also liked Samantha's first one - but I had the
>> impression I'd seem it before somewhere...
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics
>
> Hmm, good spot.
>
>> Is this close enough that we should be worried?
>
> Now I've seen the Olympics one, I don't know. They're certainly very
> similar in their design concepts, although we aren't saying that
> samantha copied it - the styles are different and its a fairly
> archetypal image.

I don't think they are 'too' similar. They are not olympic colors, and
the proportion of the text and little person is different enough..

I like this one.

Cheers

>
> There are two questions:
>
>  1) Are people going to associate the logo with the Olympics more than
>     maemo.org? (obviously, given maemo.org is fairly small scale, the absolute
>     answer is "yes"; but I mean in the subset of people who know about Maemo)
>
>  2) Are there trademark concerns?
>
> I can't answer (2), and I /didn't/ associate it with the Olympics...
> until now. Something for the judges to weigh up, perhaps, rather than
> explicitly banning it. If samantha mounted a spirited defence here, I
> could wholly back it... and that could feed into the judges' decision
> making.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrew
>
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Nick Loeve