Open Uru Forum Logo

[Dot]

This probably won't be a popular suggestion, but I'd prefer to see a clean, uncluttered, non-animated logo with a plain background.

This would be more in keeping with the OpenUru project itself, which seems to focus on getting the job done with a minimum of fuss.

Minimalist designs are also easier to deploy in different contexts.

[Tweek]

I'd like to just add that a globe with text orbiting is rather 1980's.

A simple minimal logo that scales well would be the best bet.

[Gehn, lord of ages]

Here are a few concepts. At least the D'ni writing will have to be redone (I didn't have the D'ni font on my computer, so I copied the images from a picture). The D'ni word that I mashed together is veelai, I believe, which means "soul" (since we are trying to keep Uru's soul, and since it is a nice anagram of Open Source Uru Live).

[realXCV]

I read most of them as URUpen or URUOpen.

[The stranger]

Here's mine:



Done in powerpoint so it's not very amazing, but it's nice, I think.

[Mac_Fife]

Bah! My office firewall blocks Photobucket Need to wait 'til I get home...

[Marten]

Repeat from Page One. As far as I am aware, this has not changed.

But for now, it is the policy of this site to not use any Cyan Worlds assets (artwork, etc) in its look and feel unless and until it applies for and receives license to use them. So while I'd really appreciate a good logo right now, our logo will not use any Cyan Worlds images. Sorry!

I like gehn's 3rd option. (I agree that the others read more like "UruOpen." ) I don't think that the font for the text URU counts as an asset... but I am also not a lawyer. I do know the gold texture is, to quote Monty Python, "right out."

[rarified]

I'm not an artist so I can't make this materialize much less whittle it down to a 2-tone logo, but I keep envisioning something involving exploring. Something with perhaps a worn pair of hiking boots and a backpack in the background.

Does that resonate with anyone else??

[Gehn, lord of ages]

I read most of them as URUpen or URUOpen.

Yeah, I was worried about that. It's just that the circle made such a nice O, and it is a lot easier to balance the image with stuff to the right and below the circle. The "Uru" can be replaced with a different font if necessary - it doesn't look too much different.

[Dot]

Designing a successful logo is far harder than designing many other things.

Rather than throwing images and ideas at each other, can I suggest approaching this in a different way? This is how publishers might go about designing a logo for a new maths course, for example.

Start by brainstorming a list of what you want the logo to say. So, for Open Uru, that might include the following:
-- linked with Uru, D'ni
-- open source
-- community
-- world wide (NOT just N America -- there's a lot of Europeans, Australians and New Zealanders contributing here, not to mention The Stranger )
-- modern, but with links to a history
-- technical tools
-- businesslike, focused
-- opening up (or exploring) ideas, opportunities, possibilities
etc.

Think also about all the different places you are likely to use the logo (as JWPlatt did earlier in the thread). This will have implications for colours, size of images and text, complexity of image, and so on.

From these lists will come ideas for images, graphics, colours, slogans and the like.