Hello,
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here is a modified version of "Plussy".
Its design will obviously not allow for small prints.
A problem with original Plussy is that it is very similar to drugstore (pharmacy?) French standard logo, only differs by "legs" (pharmacy logo is a green cross, most often displayed as 5 squares).
So, I just left up for the vertical spacers dimension the "arms squares" to make it more an human and disabuse the "green cross", but left as most as possible the general shape looks like "plus" sign (don't know if success).
Then I red for the details of European concil discussions program, which on same days has bio-piracy and "unified patents" (with a problem left as "complete mechanism running on a computer" is not allowed to be patended /but/ involving forces of the nature together is).
It's quite a long I advocacy on all that as a "global problem".
So I have been trying also to formalize that on the logo.
Also, the ACGT letter sequence is not (bio)hazard, and will appeal French speakers especially if they are specialized in SMS sub-language (assez jet'e) :)
CODE is almost international, Anyone who play with letters will also read GADGET.
The octal ASCII representation of ACGT is really optional, I first typed 101010 , which is also cool you are fond of D.Adams (also squares are 42 millimeters large :) 2 which makes whole 13 centimeters :)
There are also sample long (would cover an entire t-shirt if left-printed reduced) advocacy texts. English version needs review.
* Important:
* I'm unsure of original author (Benjamin Kirschner?) of "Plussy" nor the CC-By-SA licence (so I used CC-By-SA/3.0), nor the year of release for Copyright.
* I added a moral restriction in order to wipe my name from references if misused, and extended it to the original author "with he's prior advice".
Best regards, TSFH
(This is my last working day before vacation, so I will just reply to the most urgent things.)
* Thomas Harding tom@thomas-harding.name [2012-10-12 00:25:18 +0200]:
- I'm unsure of original author (Benjamin Kirschner?) of "Plussy" nor
the CC-By-SA licence (so I used CC-By-SA/3.0), nor the year of release for Copyright.
Here some background for you and the list: futurebrand.com created the logo for FSFE pro bono (they also did the design for UPS, the MSN logo, and other international brands). They did it, because one of FSFE's volunteers did know their CEO at that time.
It was a process which took place in 2004 and lastet several month. At that time Georg Greve (that time president), and myself participated in several meeting where we had to answer a lot of questions about our community, the values in the community, what we want to achive with the Fellowship and with FSFE.
It took us a long time to come to a decission in FSFE about the different proposals at that time, and then reshaping the proposals.
Benjamin created the SVG version out of other files we got, so we can use it when creating leaflets, or other materials with Free Software.
Best Regards, Matthias
Le 12/10/2012 14:32, Matthias Kirschner a écrit :
(This is my last working day before vacation, so I will just reply to the most urgent things.)
- Thomas Hardingtom@thomas-harding.name [2012-10-12 00:25:18 +0200]:
- I'm unsure of original author (Benjamin Kirschner?) of "Plussy" nor
the CC-By-SA licence (so I used CC-By-SA/3.0), nor the year of release for Copyright.
Here some background for you and the list: futurebrand.com created the logo for FSFE pro bono (they also did the design for UPS, the MSN logo, and other international brands). They did it, because one of FSFE's volunteers did know their CEO at that time.
It was a process which took place in 2004 and lastet several month. At that time Georg Greve (that time president), and myself participated in several meeting where we had to answer a lot of questions about our community, the values in the community, what we want to achive with the Fellowship and with FSFE.
It took us a long time to come to a decission in FSFE about the different proposals at that time, and then reshaping the proposals.
Benjamin created the SVG version out of other files we got, so we can use it when creating leaflets, or other materials with Free Software.
thx.
As I understand, there were preliminary sketches from futurebrand, then Benjamin has collated and finalized as an SVG format.
It is complex but I think I succeeded to handle that in Inkscape "metadata"
If any interested, all derived material I created is here : http://harding.fr/tom/graphics/others/PLUSSY/ with some previews here (among a lot of unrelated artwork) : http://harding.fr/tom/graphics/display.php
As there are already some derivatives designs on FSFE site under CC, (see http://wiki.fsfe.org/Artwork/Illustrations)
I used CC-By-SA 3.0, while there is a notice to delete any reference to FSFE, original authors, and me if "misused" (deleting "attribution").
I would my repo a temporary one to host that -- it is "mainly" not my stuff, so I didn't set up URI references.
note: I'm unsure of colors, because Inkscape do not match HSL/RGB/RGBA (rgba gives another "measure" in TSL/RGB views than matches given)
Obviously, if anyone has hand on FSFE wiki and think anything could serve or need more authoring, ... :)
Best regards, TSFH.
* Thomas Harding tom@thomas-harding.name [2012-10-28 22:35:24 +0100]:
As I understand, there were preliminary sketches from futurebrand, then Benjamin has collated and finalized as an SVG format.
No, everything was final from futurebrand. But they were not used to work with Free Software. So Benjamin rebuild it with inkscape.
It is complex but I think I succeeded to handle that in Inkscape "metadata"
Thanks.
note: I'm unsure of colors, because Inkscape do not match HSL/RGB/RGBA (rgba gives another "measure" in TSL/RGB views than matches given)
For the colors take a look at: https://fsfe.org/contribute/designers/styleguide.en.html (linked from https://fsfe.org/contribute/designers/)
Regards, Matthias
