[Cc-hk] A possible CCHK logo
Mr. Pindar Wong
pindar at pacific.net.hk
Tue Apr 8 08:19:25 EDT 2008
I'm presenting to a 200+ person audience tomorrow on CCHK and will do
take a first impressions sampling on the existing logo.
p.
On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:06 PM, Ben wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for all of your valuable comments :-) I will send the designer
> with the following notes and see if he have get even more idea. Will
> also explore the possibility Oiwan suggested.
>
> 1) it is a good idea to incorporate CC into "Hong", however, it makes
> the chinese characters too big, while creative commons is like its
> decoration...
> 2) Too squared, may end up getting shrink in web design. A longer
> rectangular shape is better
> 3) The word "Creative Commons" in red make the Chinese Character of
> "Kong" not exactly below it
>
> Ben
>
> 2008/4/7 Rebecca MacKinnon <rebecca.mackinnon at gmail.com>:
>> Thanks Oiwan. Good points you make. I look forward to more people's
>> comments.
>>
>> The logo was designed by our in-house designer at the JMSC,
>> Matthew. He had
>> made one other design but it looked too much like the CC license
>> button
>> itself, so upon consulting with Catharina we decided against it.
>> However I
>> think if we give him our feedback, we can ask him to make some more
>> modifications to this logo or try other ideas. While the student
>> project
>> effort is a nice idea, I'm a little worried about the amount of
>> time it will
>> take, and who will organize this effort, and whether the time and
>> effort of
>> organizing it will take energy away from core launch planning -
>> which we are
>> already struggling to do well.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rebecca
>>
>> 2008/4/7 Oiwan Lam <oiwan.lam at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> i think we need to consider the logo with the toning of the
>>> website and
>> other materials. for example, whether red and black is the major
>> tone? if
>> not, better change the colour. it is a good idea to incorporate CC
>> into
>> "Hong", however, it makes the chinese characters too big, while
>> creative
>> commons is like its decoration...
>>>
>>> for the website purpose, perhaps we can just use CC-香港 first,
>>> and find
>> time to discuss with the designer about hk cc's style, colour
>> toning, etc.
>> we can even ask ployU students to take it up as a project... their
>> students
>> will do researches, interviews and come up with various colour tone
>> and
>> designs for our choice. but of course it will take more time...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Ben <chpapa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> While we're creating the CCHK official website (if you can help to
>>>> write the content, please let me know!), we've come across the
>>>> issue
>>>> of making a CCHK logo design. We've got a funny one here (attached
>>>> with this message). Please comment and we may use it on the website
>>>> (which will be posted here separately for comment) if there are no
>>>> strong disagreement and other suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> The logo incorporate the Chinese characters "香港" into the
>>>> original
>>>> Creative Commons International Logo.
>>>>
>>>> Personally I think it looks nice ~ isn't it? :-)
>>>>
>>>> Bests,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
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