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["Mr. Pindar Wong" <pindar AT pacific.net.hk>]

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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