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Raspberry Pi - Logo competition winner

31 points by kenver 15y ago

rorrr 15y ago
It's not great, it's not creative at all. Hate the colors too. I love the color of raspberries, not this purple uglyness.
- PerryCox 15y ago
  I don't think it's that bad, but I agree the colors are wrong. They should have used the color that the raspberries are in their blog picture above.
  - IvarTJ 15y ago
    Not an expert on design, but my intuition tells me that having it more red would hurt its clarity as it could have more easily been mistaken for a strawberry.
- joezydeco 15y ago
  Which design submission is yours, rorrr?
  - rorrr 15y ago
    I wasn't even aware there was a contest. But, for the sake of argument, let's say, it wasn't over, and I didn't submit anything. Does it mean I can't criticize it? With that kind of "argument" you can dismiss pretty much any professional art critic.
    - joezydeco 15y ago
      Professional art critics might be a little more detailed than "hate the colors". Do you have enough graphic design experience to properly critique a logo contest, or were ya just out a-trollin'?
      - rorrr 15y ago
        I draw, paint, do graphics web design and sometimes I do design logos.
DanBC 15y ago
>Actually, I think this may be an issue with your monitor. Could you take a screen grab and email me a bitmap if you get a moment? I just want to check there isn’t a colour rendering error What? How does that work? Also, other people see bugs and faces: I see goatse. :-(
- DanBC 15y ago
  Any explanation for downvote? 1) How does a screen grab help diagnose broken monitor? 2) Three blobs on left and three blobs on right are hands, you know the rest. Totally Goatse.
paulofisch 15y ago
I've reproduced my comment from the site here, mostly to address the 'raspberries aren't purple' thing :-) -- I’m Paul, the guy who designed the amazing/abominable* logo above. Thanks for the ‘grats and criticism. I’ll respond to a few of the specific points above in a bit to clarify or address things as I see them (which is my opinion and not that of the foundation, to be clear Generally, yes, the design should appear more raspberry in colour then it seems here. By that I mean, not quite red, but definitely not purple. This is my fault for designing in CYMK on a wide-gamut monitor calibrated for print and then not checking the colour profile was set properly on other monitors when exported from EPS. Looks like RGB #e7113c is closer to what I’d expect. Mea culpa. If I’ve underplayed the Pi/Pie aspect, it because the ideas I tried along those lines always ended up too fussy and indistinct and I felt that the Raspi needed something that would be eye-catching, friendly and recognisable worldwide even when photocopied badly in one colour and without any supporting text. While you can’t please all the people all the time, I did go for something simple enough to have room to grow. It’s be easy as pie to anthropomorphise (y’know, for kids) and some people have already seen this, which makes me smile Influence wise, it might help to think of it as the love child of the Apple logo and Bibendum. http://guru.gg/lovechild.png http://guru.gg/lovechild.png * delete as appropriate.
- mikesaraf 15y ago
  Nice logo and clearly most people like it, there are always some haters. I grow raspberries every year and there are wide variety outside of the sterile and often flavorless red that we see in grocery stores. http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg Also, thanks for that bit of trivia (Bibendum).
- illumen 15y ago
  Ouch. Maybe shouldn't have admitted it was derivative of the Apple logo. They'll definitely have to look for another one now.
turbolent 15y ago
Really liked http://dribbble.com/shots/282948-Raspberry-Pi http://dribbble.com/shots/282948-Raspberry-Pi
Andys 15y ago
Raspberry Pi is doing a great job of keeping up buzz on their site while the hardware isn't ready yet. So many sites peddling vapourware could learn a thing or two here.

31 points by kenver 15y ago

rorrr 15y ago

It's not great, it's not creative at all. Hate the colors too. I love the color of raspberries, not this purple uglyness.

PerryCox 15y ago
I don't think it's that bad, but I agree the colors are wrong. They should have used the color that the raspberries are in their blog picture above.
- IvarTJ 15y ago
  Not an expert on design, but my intuition tells me that having it more red would hurt its clarity as it could have more easily been mistaken for a strawberry.
joezydeco 15y ago
Which design submission is yours, rorrr?
- rorrr 15y ago
  I wasn't even aware there was a contest. But, for the sake of argument, let's say, it wasn't over, and I didn't submit anything. Does it mean I can't criticize it? With that kind of "argument" you can dismiss pretty much any professional art critic.
  - joezydeco 15y ago
    Professional art critics might be a little more detailed than "hate the colors". Do you have enough graphic design experience to properly critique a logo contest, or were ya just out a-trollin'?
    - rorrr 15y ago
      I draw, paint, do graphics web design and sometimes I do design logos.

DanBC 15y ago

>Actually, I think this may be an issue with your monitor. Could you take a screen grab and email me a bitmap if you get a moment? I just want to check there isn’t a colour rendering error What? How does that work? Also, other people see bugs and faces: I see goatse. :-(

DanBC 15y ago
Any explanation for downvote? 1) How does a screen grab help diagnose broken monitor? 2) Three blobs on left and three blobs on right are hands, you know the rest. Totally Goatse.

paulofisch 15y ago

I've reproduced my comment from the site here, mostly to address the 'raspberries aren't purple' thing :-) -- I’m Paul, the guy who designed the amazing/abominable* logo above. Thanks for the ‘grats and criticism. I’ll respond to a few of the specific points above in a bit to clarify or address things as I see them (which is my opinion and not that of the foundation, to be clear Generally, yes, the design should appear more raspberry in colour then it seems here. By that I mean, not quite red, but definitely not purple. This is my fault for designing in CYMK on a wide-gamut monitor calibrated for print and then not checking the colour profile was set properly on other monitors when exported from EPS. Looks like RGB #e7113c is closer to what I’d expect. Mea culpa. If I’ve underplayed the Pi/Pie aspect, it because the ideas I tried along those lines always ended up too fussy and indistinct and I felt that the Raspi needed something that would be eye-catching, friendly and recognisable worldwide even when photocopied badly in one colour and without any supporting text. While you can’t please all the people all the time, I did go for something simple enough to have room to grow. It’s be easy as pie to anthropomorphise (y’know, for kids) and some people have already seen this, which makes me smile Influence wise, it might help to think of it as the love child of the Apple logo and Bibendum. http://guru.gg/lovechild.png http://guru.gg/lovechild.png * delete as appropriate.

mikesaraf 15y ago
Nice logo and clearly most people like it, there are always some haters. I grow raspberries every year and there are wide variety outside of the sterile and often flavorless red that we see in grocery stores. http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg http://tinyurl.com/5wyewjg Also, thanks for that bit of trivia (Bibendum).
illumen 15y ago
Ouch. Maybe shouldn't have admitted it was derivative of the Apple logo. They'll definitely have to look for another one now.

turbolent 15y ago

Really liked http://dribbble.com/shots/282948-Raspberry-Pi http://dribbble.com/shots/282948-Raspberry-Pi

Andys 15y ago

Raspberry Pi is doing a great job of keeping up buzz on their site while the hardware isn't ready yet. So many sites peddling vapourware could learn a thing or two here.