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Mozpad & XulRunner logos - toplist

toplist — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:54:01 +0200

Thanks and you very good logos

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Twentyafterfour

Twentyafterfour — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:02:35 +0100

I really like #11 and #12 for either mozpad or xulrunner. Another similar concept that could work for xulrunner would be DNA as apposed to cells.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Nicolas Froidure

Nicolas Froidure — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:41:12 +0100

Wow ! Good job !

I love the #2, #11 and #12 but every drafts are great !

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - David Boswell

David Boswell — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:36:08 +0100

These look great and I'm glad to see this discussion.

For the mozpad logo, I agree with the feedback in comment #8 and would love to see some logos that tie in more with a pad -- lilypad, frog, pond...

For XULRunner, before picking a logo I think we should at least consider a larger branding effort similar to WebRunner's recent change to Prism. Since WebRunner and XULRunner are related technologies, we might want the logos and brands to be related as well. For instance, we could rename XULRunner to Spectrum (just to pick another optical term) and then create a new logo based on that name. Spectrum also describes the community and technology since XULRunner is being used to build a wide range of different apps (browser, chat client, calendar, music app...). There might be other projects already using Spectrum as a name, but this gives an example of how we could pick a name that could be a little easier to use and promote than XULRunner.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Dan Mosedale

Dan Mosedale — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:30:29 +0100

I actually like #2 because it's the only one that references/leverages the existing Mozilla brand. It would be interesting to see some more examples with that property...

Dan

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Alex Vincent

Alex Vincent — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:17:25 +0100

I rather like #8... but I think we should avoid #2 pretty heavily (it looks a little too much like a certain stomping red lizard).

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Pike

Pike — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:56:22 +0100

I'd prefer the #11, the pad one. In green, though.

I don't get the cell-image, nor the bee one. Let alone the cross-hair or eye. As I haven't looked at the logo discussion for mozpad at all, that might actually be valuable information, as that's more the target audience of the logo ;-)

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:03:39 +0100

Yes, on reflection I think the bee is too busy (and frankly a little scary) and it isn't clear enough what the lumpy shapes are meant to be in #4 and #5. #10 is a bit over the top.

I think the eyes have potential. The target has the merit of some relevance (a helipad) and it's simple, which is a big plus. My idea was some sort of rocket, so that might be worth playing around with if Marianne has time to do another iteration. Thanks for this, Paul!

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - pd

pd — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 09:47:21 +0100

Don't like any of them.

Back to the drawing board.

Unfortunately I think pad really does nothing for aiding graphic designers. Perhaps you should think of a more meaningful name before asking graphic designers to apply visual meaning to a meaningless name?

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - reed

reed — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 03:02:20 +0100

The logos are great, but I did notice one thing I thought I should point out. The correct spelling is XULRunner, not XulRunner. XUL is an acronym for "XML User Interface Language", so all three letters need to be capitalized, not just the X. :)

Good luck on picking a logo!

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - mawrya

mawrya — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:49:17 +0100

Although they look very polished (the artist has talent) most of these logos don't pass the tests: Good logo design principles include the ability to reproduce the logo in only two colours, recognizable at very small sizes, any objects used in the logo are recognizable by anyone, any objects used in the logo should be somehow tied to the entity the logo represents.

The cells are not easily recognizable objects, and could be easily confused with germs, which have rather negative connotations - viruses in the computer world. The others seem to be too complex or have little to do with the project.

This is great to see things happening though. How about something with a simple lilypad? Most people associate frogs and lizards, and the pad is, well, part of the name and representative of what mozpad is - something to sit on, build on.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - dao

dao — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:38:43 +0100

I like the eye; color doesn't really matter.
#11 is nice, too.
I'm not sure I get the message of the bee, and it's probably not iconic enough.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Blair McBride

Blair McBride — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:02:00 +0100

#12 for XulRunner definitely gets my vote - brilliant!

As for MozPad, I prefer #3 or #9

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - ct^

ct^ — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:10:36 +0100

The bee and the eye definitely have potential, but, to me, the blobs in #4 (what are they?) look like a human bottom.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Pete Boyd

Pete Boyd — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:20:23 +0100

The bee is very intricate, I predict it won't work in small sizes such as icons.
The Mozilla mascot logo was once the logo for the Mozilla suite and mozilla.org, it would be wrong to re-use it for Mozpad.
The cross-hair is very similar to the Clam anti-virus logo and more-so ClamWin's logo: http://www.clamwin.com/.
I recommend a simpler logo for XulRunner so that will be equally distinctive at small sizes.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Pete Boyd

Pete Boyd — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:10:10 +0100

Please label the images so we can reference them in our comments, otherwise everyone's going to be typing all sorts of proesey references to try to describe which image they're commenting on.

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - dafi

dafi — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:24:12 +0100

For Mozpad I agree with you.
For Xulrunner I prefer the third image from top, the four cells

Mozpad & XulRunner logos - Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:09:01 +0100

I actually like the one with the crosshairs (second from the bottom in the big picture) best as a mozpad logo, as it both has a nice connection to the "pad" we're starting off and a targetted, to-the-point solution for application designers. It has style and is quite neutral color-wise, which makes it a good fit to many other logos.

And I really love your XulRunner one - this is a cool thing.