[Its.an.education.project] Logo proposal

[Eben Eliason]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> Eben Eliason wrote:
>
>> In truth, the XO logo was the core of Sugar and entirely developed in
>> reference to software, and only later became stamped onto the hardware
>> itself.  Initially, the design intent was to reflect the green bumpers
>> of the laptop with the stroke of the XO figure, and beyond that we
>> didn't expect the physical hardware to have any specific Sugar
>> references.  It still seems to me that the XO logo really should be
>> the face of Sugar.
>
> There's a possibility that other laptop makers might dislike
> the existing relationship with the XO hardware, even if accidental.

This is, of course, very true.  And, now that I think more about it, I
suppose that it is likely a wise decision to come up with a completely
independent logo for Sugar.  And so I do a 180 in my perspective on
the matter of the logo.

> They may ask us to use a different logo on their laptops.  How
> easy is it to replace in the software?

However, I don't think that there is any need whatsoever to take this
to the level of replacing graphics within the sugar UI, if that's what
you're implying.  Within the context of the interface, the XOs are not
used as logos, but as a fundamental building block of the interface,
specifically (and obviously) used to represent the children and
individuals using it.  I'd /really/ hate to see that swapped out for
other icons instead.

- Eben