Mageia finally has a logo, designed and proposed by Olivier Faurax. Congratulations Olivier!
So the steps in the coming weeks will be to refine this logo a bit, publish it along usage guidelines, update our website and set it ready for the next ISO alpha release!
A quick word on the process to get here:
- We started with a lot of spontaneous proposals, starting past September; so we set guidelines to help clarify what we wanted and what we didn’t want. With the beginning of November, we froze the list with 430 proposals, by about 113 artists. That’s a lot!
- We then made two subsequent short-lists and propose them for discussion to the Mageia community through the mageia-discuss mailing-list.
- And this week, after having followed/read/discussed all these discussions, the Mageia founding members voted on the orange shortlist items (see the ballot result; yes, there is a lowercase bug on the published URLs in the results list, so it may not match the intended Flickr page – epoll developers are working on that).
- We certainly can improve on this process for next time, so we will hold a postmortem thread on the mageia-discuss list as well in the coming hours.
A last word to all of you 113 that posted a proposal to this: congratulations for your work as well and thank you a lot! We hope to see you hang around, there will be a lot to suggest and to do for the project: application icons, wallpapers, themes, web site artworks and who knows?
Great! That was my favorite!
I dont like it 🙁 its too simple.
It sounds good ! That was my favorite 😉
Pingback: Mageia.org má konečně oficiální logo | MandrivaLinux.cz
hahahaha, crashed champagne glass 😀
hello,
I’m sorry, but this logo does not inspire me much. But for that I have not participated in the contest, my criticism will stop there.
Je suis aussi pour la simplicité.
ça manque quand même un peu de couleur.
pourquoi pas ce même logo en bleu ?
a +
Coincido con DrakeDalfa. No me gusta NADA 🙁
It may represent what ever you like, with all the great meanings that you might ever imagine, it is perfect for b&w printing, and all those advantages… but it is by far the ugliest!
No surprise. It was one of the few that adhered to the published guidelines.
But a nice logo nonetheless.
It was my favourite as well, congrats! (and hello to Romain ;-))
Hey you! 😉
Good choice.
I personally preferred the 4 elements, but this was my second choice. So I still like it 😉
Yes! 🙂
Add a few colors to it, and it should look more presentable.
Personally I feel horrible this logo, especially having much better proposals, such as AlexN83: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/with/5095733855/
The alexn83 proposal were indeed nice, and they were 2nd on the vote, but personally, I think the one that was choosed would be more suitable for theming and changes. But the first logo is just the first, and as we said, there is still a lot of logos to draw, for mageia-app-db, for sophie, for catdap, ( or for drakxtools ).
So I think the ideas and the logo proposed could perfectly be reused.
I think exactly the same as you.
and I ! =( …. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/with/5095733855/ <– =]
+1
Too much simple, too much static, too much unattractive for marketing and the big world of Linux systems…
In my opinion, AlexN83 is a great artist and his proporsals are much better (original, colorful, very attractive designs, etc.)
Bon c’est le moins pire qui a été retenu. En fait non, il ne fait pas parti des pires… mais j’ai vraiment été déçu des propositions des divers ch allengers – la critique est facile mais l’art… je sais – et j’avais peur d’un logo au design trop amateur. Mageia s’en sort bien 🙂
Ce qui me gène dans ce logo :
– design trop allongé, donc pas toujours exploitable (cf Red-hat, Debian, Apple, MS, etc)
– aussi jolie soit elle la première partie ne m’évoque rien du tout. C’est tout de même un problème is’nt it ?
Sinon le style est pas mal du tout. Bon Olivier, tu es un ancien thésard, tu danses, tu fais de la musique et tu as des idées et une certaine maitrise dans le domaine graphique, qu’est ce que tu ne sais pas faire ?!
En tous les cas bravo à toi…
Merci Aduartico 🙂
Pour le design allongé, l’idée est que le logo puisse être utilisé avec ou sans texte et que le logo lui-même tienne dans un carré.
Ce n’était pas facile de trouver un logo qui suivent toutes les règles :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofaurax/5118935499/in/set-72157625195368021/
Sur le fait qu’il ne t’évoque rien du tout, j’ai essayé de mettre dans ce logo l’idée d’un chaudron (ou d’une gourde “à la Astérix”), combiné à 5 “bulles” pour symboliser la vivacité des idées, mais aussi 5 contributions de 5 continents.
Ça n’a pas trop mal marché, puisque le 4e commentaire ci-dessus, parle d’un verre de champagne sans pied. Certains ont demandé à ce que ce soit le logo de la version de dev (“cauldron”).
Pour tout le reste, c’est gentil d’avoir lu mon blog 🙂 Je pense sincèrement que c’est en multipliant les domaines de compétences qu’on obtient de bons résultats. Par exemple, un designer qui sait coder, un packager qui sait gérer une communauté, un manager qui sait communiquer, etc.
It´s the worst
I don’t like it at all…
It doesn’t evoke me technology (witchery is opposed to in my opinion), open (except that the cauldron has no cap), community, convergent energy (the bubbles go away – I wish Mageia to spread as those bubbles 😉 ).
I am curious about the statistics. What were the community preferences?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
For the community, there is no formal stats, but you can review the mailling list discussion on https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/ ( but the archives are misconfigurated , we will see once we have done the more urgent stuff ).
Or you can check http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user/2722
Indeed, but a cauldron is not that ‘technology indistinguishable from magic’. I won’t give up Mageia for this.
I would have been curious about a community poll. Just curious.
Personally, I’m a generic-oriented mind, so I would have preferred a more abstract approach. But that’s just me. 😉
Love the active contributors, as software developer I understand their effort, so I would not blame anyone making Mageia possible except that I expected to be more open than this – with the note that anarchy is not an option. I wouldn’t go that far to chose whatever community wants. Would be impossible.
Wish you luck!
All the logo process was bad managed for me
1. The guidelines was not completed when you start to receive proposals
2. Allow only to Inner members to decide about logo, from your wiki http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?do=show&id=artwork%3Alogo_selection_process#logo_selection_process
, i think at less you did may allow to artist to vote too
1. We could not stop something that started spontaneously and that we tried to square in the very process. That. Is. Life. 🙂
2. This has been put on balance and decided quite early and we did not get real opposition to that. And we believe that’s fair for the bootstrapping process. All founding members (not “inner”, but I understand what you mean), as far as I know, took the time to follow community conversations about proposals.
We can’t be perfect, we still got to something great I believe and we can improve. So, thank you (and everyone) for showing you care; you are welcome to participate to the postmortem thread (see “Habemus logo” in mageia-discuss list) so we can improve on such a process for any other kind of similar operation in the future.
Well not start so spontaneously as you say you publish the draw of guidelines and set the group on flickr, if you don’t set the group until the guidelines are full defined you lost some of the proposal but receive more accurate ones.
1- Yes, but what’s better, changing/improving the guidelines when needed or keep them in a bad shape? it’s not perfect, but it’s not too bad either. People had time to adjust their proposals (also note that any good artwork will be used, in wallpapers, for other parts of the distro). Also this isn’t ‘all’ the artwork Mageia will need, the distro will need many more stuff 🙂
2- I think anyone following the mailing lists can see that there were lengthy discussions about the logo selection, all those comments were considered and taken into account… (and you can’t let participants vote for their own work, simply because each one will vote for his work, so just add 1 vote to each logo).
A decision had to be made, the founding members did it, this is necessary in the first time around (note that the council and board will be elected active members from the community, this is a community supported distro after all :)).
Yes but after the red list i don’t see trouble to let the artist vote, after red list many logos (and maybe artist) was discarded and maybe after read the full guidelines some artist vote for other work distinct than own (why not think in positive way? 😉 )
The guideline have been posted on 06/10 on the wiki, and on the mailling list on 29/09 ( https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100929/001554.html ).
Ie 11 days after the first announce ( on 18/09 ). The first proposal was sent on 19/09. I tried to tell to people that we were overhelmed ( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100920/000264.html ), but given the traffic on the ML it seems I failed. I could have shut down the list for sure, but I do not think people would have been happy. During this 10 days, people worked on doing interview, reading the list ( and answering ), setting up basic infrastructure, taking care of paperwork for the association, for the donation, for the structure, for the website, for the mailling list, and occasionnaly sleeping/eating/etc.
So basically, are we to blame because people spontaneously decided to send us logo, despites telling “we are not ready to receive them yet” ? I do not think so.
Regarding the vote, the process was sent on 18/11 ( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20101118/003030.html ), and in the following discussion, no one actually said anything about the process, everybody just stated “I prefer this logo for this reason, etc”. And no one said anything on http://blog.mageia.org/?p=156 , nor answered on twitter/identi.ca about this. Nor on irc, afaik.
So again, are we to blame because no one said anything on the process until it was too late ( ie, 3 weeks later ), even after basically broadcasting it on every possible communication channel we could ?
Again, I do not think so.
Please read my other answer i don’t want to repeat
We never know if say “i don’t agree whit this” works for anything but a less for me words like “only founding board members have a say in the short-lists and final selection” don’t sound like open invitation to discuss.
Please don’t take my words as aggression for you or the project.
There’s a difference between discussing, providing opinions and deciding on the outcome. The discussion was and is open. 🙂
The Mageia Board and Council will be there for that (taking decisions, directions and responsibility with regard to the project goals, roadmap and discussions/views in the community).
In the meantime (elections will happen during the FOSDEM), the Mageia founding members board (temporary, in place of Board and Council) is here for that.
With Discuss i mean an passionate but respectful and constructive exchange of opinions 😉
Pingback: Mageia ya tiene logo oficial « ext4 Blog, el rincón de Malcer
I do not like the logo. It is very simple. We will have to get accustomed I coincide with the opinion of Annubis
I have not participated so have no right to comment, although I felt that commenting was pointless, would be ignored, but for me this is ugly and looks to me like a sideways pacman vomiting.
Even the shape is nothing like a cauldron and I’d never have known if I hadn’t have been told. I see nothing to connect it with Mageia and the only thing it seems to have going for it is conforming completely with the guidelines. Although losing the circles and replacing them with a crooked stirring stick in an ‘M’ form would at least link it to the brand.
“looks to me like a sideways pacman vomiting.”
Im thinking the same thing. The shape of that cauldron is just wrong.
In all these comments I see the same balance as in the mailing-list discussions. There are some that like it and think it is the best of the proposals, and there are some who do not like it at all, and then some who do not like it but find it acceptable.
It’s the usual balance of comments after any such decisions. All these comments before the final voting have been read and taken into account. Then the decision was made. The result should be accepted.
As has been said, there will be shaping and coloring, in the end you may not find it so ugly at all 🙂
No era mi favorito, pero ahora ya es el mejor.
Felicidades.
Unfortunately, I don’t like this logo. I really admire the effort and work, but I think it had much better options :/
Maybe just try using some gears instead of bubbles, then the people who want some more technical looking stuff in it would also be happy 😉 It would also bring the “community interacts together like the gears in a clock” aspect more clearly to it. Tough I am not sure if it would look horrible that way, but maybe its worth trying.
As wobo said, you’d better comment before the final choice. The proposal list was impressive, even wit the so called “flaws” in the guidelines. I hope we can reuse some of all other logo proposals. Who knows? If the guidelines were in alpha stage, may be this logo is just for the alpha version 😉
Now, about the simplicity, how complicated is the Mandriva logo: a star! How complicated is the debian logo: a spiral! How complicated is the ubuntu logo: a circle with three dots! How complicated is Slackware logo: a S! And you can go on with the exemples…
There you have the Mageia logo: a cauldron with bubbles!
I think that there’s a lot of potential in this logo and it can be derivate a lot and colored like a rainbow if we like it like that (to suggest good magic 🙂 )
Just imagine a mouse busy cursor theme wit popping bubbles 🙂
Just imagine what Mageia could do for you!
Hello to all, thanks for your interest. I know this logo was not the favourite of everyone.
However, please keep in mind that it will be refined, and the black&white first proposition will be declined. For example, the logo has been adapted for twitter : https://twitter.com/mageia_org
The mageia colors have not be defined for the moment. It won’t stay black and white.
Great work ! and nice choice.
Well, to me the cauldron is fine, for it´s simple enough to be a decent logo, and I also don´t mind if we add bubbles.
Yet, is the “mageia” lettering a part of the logo? Was it taken from a font which is publicly available and which has already existed or was this also a new creation?
What I do not like so much in particular is the way the letter “g” of the “mageia” lettering in the logo was designed. The other letters are ok; it´s just my opinion.
Maybe the outlines of new logo will evolve – it´s a kind of magic the change from one form to another: e. g. from the pot with little stars above the water level instead of bubbles to the shiny big star.
Question: did you officially invite the graphics logo-professionals from groups amateur/professionals to take their part in the competition?
The announce was posted on the blog, on the mailling list, on twitter and identi.ca, on irc and maybe on facebook too. I assume that people forwarded to their friends and so on. And it was open to everybody.
Great! That was my favourite one! Good choice 🙂
What about the colours scheme?
Pingback: Habemus Logosu | Mageia Blog (Türkçe)
Hello mageians:
One question:
Will the alpha be available to download for everybody or just for a group of testers?.
For everybody, but remember: that will be an alpha (unstable, for testing/developing/debugging purposes).
Thank you.
It will be interesting to see whats new in mageia
No me gusta nada = I don’t like, but I assume that Mageia have more height and quality as your logo…
It’s not over, give is colour scheme and present finished combination :] .
The choice is ok, even if I personally prefered different logos. This is simple and symbolic. Nice. I like it.
I like it. Good choice.
I like the simplicity of the new logo.
Smells good! What’s cooking?
I made some investigations and finally found strong fuel for ideology, public relations and propaganda.
At first I can tell, that I wasn’t much impressed with new distribution logo having stared at it for the first time – I saw just cauldron, but as was said it is not final refinement of design, the base is fine.
Also I took mystical primer:
Karel Weinfurter, Mystický slabikář I, s. 105 (from reedition according to II. edition published in 1936, předmluvu napsal Karel Weinfurter v roce 1929):
“Nádoba, symbol člověka, ať je jakéhokoli tvaru.”
It means this: Vessel, the symbol of man whatever form it has.
(other synonyms for “vessel” found in internet wordbook are: vase, receptacle, bin, calabash, dish, bath, can, receiver, gourd, …)
I think, that the creation of pots in many forms and designs is favourite activity for many cultures, so everyone in the world can identify with its own Mageia pot’s version. The graphics from antique krater to modern art deco design etc. can now appear on welcome screens of Mageia distribution, on T-shirts, coffee cups, vases and other pottery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot
Personally…., I feel horrible this logo, sorry but I don’t like
my question is…,Why do you choose?
Pingback: Proyecto Mageia: el no opinar y participar se paga caro « ext4 Blog, el rincón de Malcer
not like it very much, but very close with the guidelines…
Pingback: Logo Resmi Mageia Linux » Luthfi Emka
It was not what I expected, (I congratulate you ofaurax), but I think they were better designed, with excellent colors and more noticeable in black and white, those of AlexN83, gejobj, ennael, mondze and Hurdman. For me, and I think that is the feeling of many.
Pingback: Habemus logo | Mageia Blog (Español)
Folks, it’s a start that can be manipulated to become a final logo. Logos should be rather simple and scalable from very large to tiny, and still be discernible. I was just messing with the current choice, and I came up with these variations on it. Others can probably come up with more ideas to mold it into a final logo.
http://tinyurl.com/2c67xck
One of the few that followed the guidelines! Liked that one, because it’s simple, because it has a clear identity. I see a lot complaining it’s too simple, but are Nike, Coca Cola or BMW logos complicated ? Nice work Olivier 😉
Simple, but nice!
Let’s rock!
Congratulations for the nice logo. It suggests me there are also nice people behind it, cooking cool things for us to enjoy. Can you smell the magic? I do.
Go, Mageia, go!
I prefer likely the mystics. 🙂
It’s perfect!
And sorry for my disappearance, I was busy with my graduation.
Sorry for the dearth of contributions from my end.
New role in the main job’s eaten into my time on this project.
Hope to be ore useful with wallpapers and apps.
Have we chosen a tag line to drive the logo’s “brewed environment” message? Maybe a forum contest for that?
Looking forward to help.
Loving the logo…it’s so unique in its potential and reflects the open attitude prevalent.
Good show and EXCELLENT choice.
Shashank