Seed Logo
May 21, 2009
I was playing with Algorithm Ink
and I accidentally made what I have decided should be the Seed logo.
It looks sort of like a seed, and is a metaphor for um…It looks sort of like a seed, and looks cool.
In other news, headed back to Troy today, and then Barcelona on Saturday for UDS. Need to find places to explore in Barcelona on Sunday.
May 21, 2009 at 8:43 am
It is too complicated for a logo, doesn’t look beautiful and using a drawing tool like that is a very cheap way to find a logo π It also looks more like a Turkish “sarΔ±k” than a seed (http://www.geocities.com/gokbar/nasrettin.jpg or http://www.enfal.de/pad1.jpg).
May 21, 2009 at 10:53 am
Luckily for us, libraries don’t need logos, so we can keep our complete-crack logo in relative privacy!
See you at UDS!
May 21, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Ah. It looks very detailed to become an icon, though / doesn’t scale that well. And a logo should communicate what the product does, I believe. I appreciate how hard that is, though. π
Nevertheless, I think a seed with “complex” stuff inside is a good metaphor for what seed does – a ‘shell’ around the libraries/code, making them easier to interact with and use…
Or, a shell with a(nother) tiny circle(seed) in it – that doubles as the (gobject-)introspection bit/eye…
I don’t know… Just my thoughts.. π
May 21, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I think you got it the wrong way Mats. This is a logo and not an icon. It is icons that should communicate clearly what the product does, not the logo. The logo may do so if it wants to, but I would say you’re a lot more free when designing a logo than you are when designing an icon.
And the issue with it not scaling down very well I think is up to the project to decide, and as Tim pointed out, it’s a logo for a library and not really something that is needed per se, so I doubt it will have to be printed in small size on e.g. letter heads et.c. π
I think it looks cool!
May 22, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Nice !
Would you share the Context Free code used to draw it ?