[Its.an.education.project] Logo proposal

[Simon Dorner]

On 13.05.2008 at 19:50, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> How about that common form be a frame - for the kids to draw a  
> portrait
> within, or put a real (low-res or b/w?) photo or a butterfly stock  
> art.
> Whatever is inside the frame, let it be a "portrait frame" be the  
> common
> shape of users.

Yes, that was the idea in the mockup. A circle with two borders as the  
frame of a pixel-image representing the user avatar. A circle would  
work well with the round white dots representing the different views  
and with the circle in the home screen. The two borders make the color  
scheme distinction still possible if the screen is in color mode. I  
think the color schemes are a great idea and work well, they are just  
not sufficient as the *only* means of differentiation.

I would definitely not advocate putting lots of different icon shapes  
into the network view. Stock icons should also always fit into the  
circle or whatever shape gets used. SVG icons that can be colored and  
changed would probably mean too much work for now.

I think that it should be possible for the kid to just choose some  
image he or she has made and put it into the circle. As soon as one  
kid does this, everybody will want to learn how to do it too. For some  
reason, kids and teenagers love to do stuff like that. Cell phone wall  
papers and ring tones have been one of the most lucrative businesses  
in Europe for years now.

Simon.