[Lumiera] Voting for the Winning Logo

[Christian Thaeter]

Guillermo Espertino wrote:
> I have a little critic here. Several pre-selected logos don't meet the
> technical requirements (many of them rely on gradients, and it was a
> specific condition to avoid that).
> In my opinion, those logos should be presented again with solid fills.
> I think it's unfair for the guys that presented a valid logo. They are
> running in disadvantage in front of the others who used shiny
> reflections and gradient fills, which boost the visual impact of the
> piece.
> I have to object the selection of some of the "finalists" too, because
> they have a complexity that directly renders them unusable for
> reductions (a common situation in icons, for instance).
> It's not my intention to start a discussion about this, but I think that
> permitting these technical issues is unfair for the guys who tried to
> stick to the rules.
> 
> I didn't participate, but I'm a graphic designer. I'd say that most of
> the alternatives presented have serious technical problems, from the
> graphic design perspective. Keep in mind that this logo will be the face
> of Lumiera in the future, and this is the opportunity to make it right.

I was quite aware of that and complained a lot, the selection page often
shows 'shiny' thumbnails, but the logo's details page show single/solid
color versions and/or we have a direct idea how to turn that Logo into
such. Almost any Logo there needs some final make-up when it will be
selected. I agree that the quality is quite diverse, but I have some
faith that the community selects one of the better ones. We (the core
team) just preselected and vetoed out what we think would be really
inproper and not easily fixable (or just extremely disliked by us).
There are some remaining logos from which I personally hope that they do
not get selected (puh) but there is nothing left where anyone of us
completely disagrees with. Anyways, we decided that we want to make this
 a community contest and not a hierachical/dictatorial decision .. I
think the later would have a chance to yield the technically better
logo, but we want this a 'community' project and as long not everyone
can or wants to program on it, his contribution could be expressed in
such things like this logo contest. What means that we agree to swallow
what gets elected now. Finally the non coders have to swallow the
application as it will be done by us too. .. ah yes and I would be very
happy if more people come helping on the coding part, we have a lot easy
tasks to do, shell scripting for the infrastructure and such.

	Christian