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Design a logo for the project #14

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Daniel-Mietchen opened this issue May 9, 2018 · 14 comments
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Design a logo for the project #14

Daniel-Mietchen opened this issue May 9, 2018 · 14 comments
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@Daniel-Mietchen
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One thing to think about during and after the sprint is how a JROST logo might look like.

The image we are currently using in this repo's README is just a very first shot at visualizing what it is that we are aiming at. It captures some aspects of the project but not others, and it is not very usable as a logo.

Another starting point is the initial logo used over at https://twitter.com/OpenSciRoadmap (see archive).
It is usable as a logo but basically does not capture anything about the ideas of open science, a roadmap and doing it jointly.

@Daniel-Mietchen Daniel-Mietchen added help wanted Extra attention is needed mozsprint To remain compatible with other Mozsprint repos Create Make something new logo 1 picture > 1000 words, they say labels May 9, 2018
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Hello @Daniel-Mietchen , I am Vasant Joseph. I am a class 12 student. I have skills in designing(Photoshop, premiere pro), presentation, and anything which is given to me, which I can do. I am sincere to my work. If there is anything which I can do to help, please inform me. This is my first time at Mozilla global sprint.
I have experience by participating in a variety of hackathons.
I can Help to make a superb LOGO

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VasantJ3 commented May 10, 2018

Hello @daniellecrobinson , I am Vasant Joseph. I am a class 12 student. I have skills in designing(Photoshop, premiere pro), presentation, and anything which is given to me, which I can do. I am sincere to my work. If there is anything which I can do to help, please inform me. This is my first time at Mozilla global sprint.
I have experience by participating in a variety of hackathons
I can make awseome LOGO

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Hello, We (Faith and Kevin) wanted to work together to develop a JFrost Logo for you. Faith has formidable skills in Photoshop and LightRoom. We look forward to hearing your feedback on the proposed new logo.

Thank you.

@Daniel-Mietchen
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Hi @VasantJ3 @Kevin-Wangome - thanks for pitching in here. We're about to get going on the US East coast.

The logo above is nice but it refers to a typo (JFrost) rather than our initiative's shorthand (JROST) but I like it nonetheless, since the snowflake image could be seen as a representation of a landscape.

So what about dropping the J from the above and accentuating the nodes and edges of the snowflake with slight variations of colour, size and shape to represent individual tools or infrastructures in the open science landscapes, and the connections between them? Slightly morphing the overall shape of the snowflake to something a bit less symmetrical (perhaps as seen from an angle) might also make sense.

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dwhly commented May 10, 2018

Glad to see folks thinking about this, and happy to see what you might come up with! Here is the existing concept for convenience. (But pls don't feel constrained by this design!!

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@Daniel-Mietchen
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@dwhly Can you put that up as a SVG as well, perhaps via Wikimedia Commons again?

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xolotl commented May 10, 2018

As folks are designing, it might be helpful to consider how logos are often needed in various contexts and think through how your design would work in all cases:

  • horizontally (eg, alongside other logos with similar horizontal shapes)
  • square (eg, GitHub avatars)
  • circular (eg, Twitter avatars)
  • very small (eg, favicons; logos with lots of detail don't work well when they are very small)
  • one color (eg, in one-color print materials)
  • reversed (eg, on dark backgrounds)
  • with a wordmark (eg, a logo alongside the initials or name of the project)

In case it's helpful for folks, here are SVG files for the initial logo used by the Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools. Note that this logo is very provisional, made so the project would have something to use quickly as it started. The "design" was simply the project's initials in the Noto Sans font currently used on the website.

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Kevin-Kinyua commented May 11, 2018 via email

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@Kevin-Wangome that sounds great, but where can we see your new version?

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Kevin-Kinyua commented May 11, 2018 via email

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@Kevin-Wangome I can't find anything like a logo to look at - please upload the images here or add links that point to them.

@Daniel-Mietchen
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The interim logo has been proposed for deletion on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:JROST_over_Stonehenge-01.png&oldid=305624775 .

I left a comment there but perhaps we should take this as an indication to get back to working on this logo.

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dee-y commented Jun 15, 2018

Hello @Daniel-Mietchen, I'm a graphic designer and i would love to make you a logo if you would have me. If you accept, I will make you a logo and it's free.

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xolotl commented Sep 18, 2018

This issue was moved to OpenScienceRoadmap/jrost#33

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