RE: [stellation-res] Any logo artists out there?

["Jonathan Gossage" <jgossage@xxxxxxxx>]

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >[mailto:stellation-res-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Mark C.
> >Chu-Carroll
> >Sent: September 10, 2002 9:53 AM
> >To: stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Any logo artists out there?
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 17:32, Rodolfo M. Raya wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 08:11, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Both of the logos posted so far are pretty good, and I think we can
> >> > work out icon designs based on each.
> >> >
> >> > For Rodolpho's, I think we could take the little moon and
> >stars, drop an
> >> > "S" next to it, and do the gradient over that for a mini-logo/icom.
> >> >
> >> > For Mike's, just taking the S with the sunburst around it would work.
> >> >
> >> > Because we're part of Eclipse, I tend to lean towards the
> >"night-time"
> >> > theme, so, at the moment, I like Rodolpho's.
> >>
> >> Two jpeg images for mini-logo are below. I like the one with "svc". The
> >> corresponding xpm icons (48x48) are attached.
> >
> >To tell the truth, I like the svc better, but for other reasons, I don't
> >want to use it.
> >
> >Dave and Jim have heard my rant on this subject too many times,
> >so I'll keep it short.
> >
> >svc is nice as a command name, because of the way that it puns on cvs.
> >But it gives the wrong impression. In the software engineering research
> >community, version control implies old fashioned single-file based
> >versioning systems like RCS. Software configuration management (SCM)
> >or versioning and configuration management (VCM) are generally used
> >for advanced systems that provide things like project versioning,
> >changesets, etc. I don't want svc, which expands out to "stellation
> >version control" to become the dominant way of referring to the system.
> >
> >So, if we want to go with your icons, the S is preferable. But something
> >about the S icon seems out of balance. I can't put my finger on why, but
> >the svc icon has a nice balance to it; the S icon looks lopsided.
> >
> >On the other hand... I think the starburst logo in blue looks very good
> >if you just pull out the S. (I've attached a copy of it at 64x64.)
> >
> >	-Mark

But SVC has a long and venerable tradition in IBM if you remember back to
your 360/370 assembler language and the Supervosor Call instruction.

Regards

Jonathan

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