I like the O, it is both the sun and it looks like an eye which suits
in with the search.
Good stuff.
-Nick
On 8/21/08, Lukáš Vlček <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Well, the eye looking O is not intentional. It is more a result of the
> techique I used when doing the initial skatch. Believe it or not this design
> started at magnetic drawing board (http://www.reggies.co.za/nov/nov274.jpg)
> which I use now when playing with my 2 year old daughter. It is an excellent
> piece of hardware and though it lacks in terms of output resolution and is
> not presure sensitive and its undo capatilities are very limitted it
> outperforms my A4+ Wacom tablet in terms of bootup time and is absolutely
> *green energy* equipment. But as I mentioned, its resolution is quite low
> and thus the vectorized version is not perfect yet.
>
> Anyway, I think that eye looking O is an interesting observation I will work
> on this because I see that it can be confuzing.
>
> Regards,
> Lukas
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nice job Lukas; the professionalism and quality of work is evident. I like
> > aspects of the logo, but too am having trouble getting past the eye-looking
> > O. Is it intentional (eye:look:search, etc)?
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > On 20-Aug-08, at 5:25 AM, Mark Miller wrote:
> >
> > I went through the same thought process - it took a couple minutes for the
> >> whole thing to grow on me. Perhaps a tweak to the O if your looking for
> some
> >> constructive criticism?
> >>
> >> Again though, I really think its an awesome multipurpose logo. Works well
> >> in color, b/w, large, small, and just the sun part as a facicon/other.
> >>
> >> Grant Ingersoll wrote:
> >>
> >>> It's pretty good, for me. My first thought is it is an eye (the orange
> >>> reminds me of eyelashes), and then the second thought is it is the Sun.
> Take
> >>> that w/ a grain of salt, though, there's a reason why I do server-side
> code
> >>> and not user interfaces and graphic design. :-)
> >>>
> >>> -Grant
> >>>
> >>> On Aug 20, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Lukáš Vlček wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Only few responded so far. How we can get more feedback? Do you think I
> >>>> should work on the proposal a little bit more and then attach it to
> >>>> SOLR-84?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards,
> >>>> Lukas
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Otis Gospodnetic <
> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I like it, even its asymmetry. :)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Otis
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ----- Original Message ----
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> From: Lukáš Vlček <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>>>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> >>>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 7:02:25 PM
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Solr Logo thought
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> My initial draft of Solr logo can be found here:
> >>>>>> http://picasaweb.google.com/lukas.vlcek/Solr
> >>>>>> The reason why I haven't attached it to SOLR-84 for now is that this
> >>>>>> is
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> just
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> draft and not final design (there are a lot of unfinished details). I
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> would
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> like to get some feedback before I spend more time on it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I had several ideas but in the end I found that the simplicity works
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> best.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Simple font, sun motive, just two colors. Should look fine in both the
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> large
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> and small formats. As for the favicon I would use the sun motive only
> >>>>>> -
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> it
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> means the O letter with the beams. The logo font still needs a lot of
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> small
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> (but important) touches. For now I would like to get feedback mostly
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> about
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> the basic idea.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> Lukas
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Mark Miller wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Plenty left, but here is a template to get things started:
> >>>>>>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LogoContest
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Speaking of which, if we want to maintain the momentum of interest in
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> this
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> topic, someone (ie: not me) should setup a "LogoContest" wiki page
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> with some
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> of the "goals" discussed in the various threads on solr-user and
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> solr-dev
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> recently, as well as draft up some good guidelines for how we should
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> run the
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> contest
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
>
> http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
>
