[Design] Branding Brainstorm Session 2 Update

[Ted Leung]

Water droplet

On Oct 24, 2005, at 4:23 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:

> Thank you everyone for voting!
> Here's my informal tally. I had some hanging chads and every time  
> we counted it was different, but here are the informal results.
>
> Constellation 1111111111-10
> Water Droplet-111111111-9
> Spiral 111-3 (Although Sheila got 5 originally)
>
> So I had a difficult time tallying up the votes, but a rough  
> informal tally showed that Water Droplet and Constellation were  
> pretty close. (I included approval votes where people seemed okay  
> with more than 1 logo idea.) Some people provided feedback on all  
> three logos and didn't seem to have a clear preference for any of  
> the logos, so I didn't count those votes.
>
> Based on feedback, I've done another pass at the visual design. The  
> water droplet still requires more careful tweaking to make it look  
> 3-D, but I've worked on making it pop a bit more. I've also tried  
> different colors for the Constellation as well as tried a more  
> realistic depiction of Canis Major and one of the Big Dipper.
>
> Would appreciate another round of feedback thanks! Again, the  
> deadlin will be end of day this Friday, the 28th.
>
>
> <logos_round2.png>
>
> The only comment I will make about blue, is that because blue is  
> the most popular "favorite" color in the U.S., all 3 operating  
> systems come out of the box blue and a lot of icons are blue.  
> Looking at my own Dock on my OSX machine right now, the Finder,  
> Safari, Apple Mail, and Photoshop are all bluish and Firefox and  
> AIM have blue in them though they also feature yellow and orange  
> highlights.
>
>
>

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