[Pydotorg-redesign] Design, Logo's, Images

[Tim Parkin]

Just said:
> I've been lurking here for a while and I must say I'm quite happy 
> people are still mostly concentrating on the contents and organization

> of the site. I'd be happy to contribute some time working on the
actual 
> design and I'm sure I can convince my LettError buddy Erik to do the 
> same.

It's cool that the design can have a group of people discussing it.
Would you mind taking a look at the designs on the wiki at the moment
and making a couple of comments?

Heres the main links to save time

http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/index_rounded.html
http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/index.html
http://styx.livinglogic.de/~walter/www.python.org-converted/


> But I also think it's time for something new. But more than anything,
> (graphic) design by committee sucks. One person or one small group 
> should create a new design (I'm talking about the site as a whole, not

> the just logo), and the community will have to live with the fact that

> it will not be to everyone's taste (for example I'm sure we wouldn't
be 
> able to agree what it means for a site to look "professional"). There 
> can be competing proposals, but the final choice will either have to 
> made by Guido, or a (very) small group of people that he assigns.

I totally agree, having worked for various graphic design agencies
(albeit not in a direct design role) the worst results have always been
when all of the customer board of directors want a part of the design
and all the best ones where a small group has had a free hand in
producing the designs and the committee has made decisions on favourites
where this is appropriate and advisable.

> It seems that an earlier attempt (from us) at a new Python logo has 
> been mostly forgotten.

I'd seen the logo and wondered what it was for, I like it but but not
certain if the colours are what people want. It's also quite playful but
I'm not sure if that's typical of the space in which Python should be
positioned. I've put together a few logos of other companies/langauges
in a similar space here and straight after a sample of logos that offer
a similar image.

http://pollenation.net/assets/public/samples.gif
http://pollenation.net/assets/public/similar.gif

While we're batting things about, what do you think of these possibles?

http://pollenation.net/assets/public/pydotorg-redesign/python-logo-test.
gif

And here is one of them on a website

http://www.pollenation.net/assets/public/index_rounded_logo3.html

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Tim
Pollenation