Re: [libreoffice-design] Re: [libreoffice-design] Logo proposal without TDF line

Hi Bernhard!, all!


On 2/6/2011 9:06 AM, Dr. Bernhard Dippold wrote:
> > I'm sorry I keep bringing this up, but I think it's necessary to discuss
> > and plan for this.
> > Most people will see our logo before they even try the software. We
> > might lose them before we even shake their hand.
> You really think that we lose most of our possible customers because
> of our poor logo? I didn't think it would be *that* bad...
>
> Best regards
>
> Bernhard
=)

You're right, probably a gross over-exaggeration.
But here's an interesting (well, kinda boring actually) story;

At the end of last semester, one of our students asked me how to go 
deeper than simple web-dev.
He wanted PHP. I opened up Eclipse and Netbeans homepages and told him 
these 2 were the bees-knees.
I expected he would opt for Eclipse because they had a better (not 
usability-wise) website (wasn't always the case, that).
He said "Hmmm, I'll give this (Netbeans) a try" and I asked him "out of 
curiosity, why not eclipse?". He said;

"Their logo looks like it was made in a high-school design 
competition"... That made me smile.

Such a simple, uneducated choice huh? but who here is not guilty of 
having judged a book by it's cover?
Sadly, almost all my books have nice covers. I'm not really ashamed, 
that's the power of good Design.

-Nik

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