In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >>>>> "daniel" == Daniel Robbins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > OK, ok, the penguin's a jewel thief, and he's evil. But he > > has funny little beady eyes, and that's got to count for > > something. > I think Gromit would be a better mascot. Ultimately he was much > more resourceful and capable than de penguin.
We may be onto something here! Maybe Debian can be thought of as the distribution that zags (Grommit) when everybody else zigs (penguins). Any comment? I personally liked the Debian logos that were simple and involved the jigsaw-puzzle type of design. I myself suggested a very simple design with a sketch to Christian (involved a magician's hat and wand, with buzz disappearing in a puff of smoke and rex magically appearing -- automagic upgrades, get it?), but it never showed up on his logo page (my artwork was pretty bad). The jigsaw design suggested to me that Debian helps all the complex pieces of Linux fit together smoothly :^) If you pull up http://nfs.internetp.com/debian.html, you'll see a Debian logo already in use -- one of the old jigsaw logos. What we need in a logo is something that is *catchy* -- that people will remember the look of having seen it once. That is a logo's *primary* function, IMHO. I personally think we're going in the wrong direction by relying only on penguins. I mean, look at Opus. He lost out in the 1990 US Census to a cockroach as head-of-household ;^) Clemmitt Sigler Va. Tech Physics Dept. ------------------------------------------------------------------ No .signature file is a good .signature file -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
