Everyone's input needed: voting and feedback on Fluid Engage logos

[Alistair Jones]

I was just reflecting on Jess's point on how the F can't be used as a
stand alone image.  Maybe having just having that last 'e' surrounded
by its dots could work as a stand alone image?

But maybe there's still problems with that, too.  For example, it
might be hard to do an entire rebranding along that line...

I dont know how much of the day I've spent staring at these logos
already, and I think each of them have been my favorite at some point.
 Great work!

Alistair


On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Jess Mitchell <jess at jessmitchell.com> wrote:
> Jutta just brought up a great point -- L seems to have a screen/monitor
> which limits us and limits who the image represents (excludes some of our
> community of museums).
> L is close...
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> On Nov 10, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Jess Mitchell wrote:
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> These logos are amazing -- fantastic stuff!
> I'm risking being a conversation killer, but here are a few thoughts:
> F:  The dots in F are nice, but are quite abstract.  This logo is the most
> popular, so I want to question a few areas I think will be problematic.  We
> want to be able to use the 'Fluid Engage + image' and sometimes just 'Fluid
> Engage' and sometimes just 'image'.  To do that we need a logo that is
> flexible, visually representative of our project, crisp, and clean.  For me
> the dots don't meaningfully enough capture the essence of Fluid Engage as I
> find it too abstracted to represent the specific project.  And I couldn't
> use just the dots to represent the project both because they are too
> abstract and also because they are integrated into the text portion of the
> logo.
> L:  L, N, O, and P are variations on roughly the same logo with some
> variation in fonts.  See below for more comments, but to me L captures the
> essence of what we're doing, shows people engaging with each other and with
> an object, shows the simplicity, depth, and can also be used in pieces...
>  My choice is L.  "all for the delight of the visitor!"
> N:  N to me seems to represent law, politics, or banking.  My first thought
> was people were looking at the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. -- to me, this one
> does not capture what Fluid Engage is about and might even take us to
> another field.
> O:  This logo is cute too, but it is too close to an advisors logo:
>  http://www.ideum.com/ and the PIXAR lamp from the beginning of their
> movies.  It also doesn't directly connect me to FE.
> P:  Folks are seeing associations in this one that not only stray far away
> from Fluid Engage and what we're doing in the project, but also connect with
> corporate groups -- not an image we want to foster.  For me, the 'e' does
> not meaningfully connect to FE and our goals and work and does have a
> corporate feel:  insurance, medicine, or consulting of some sort...
> We're working on making a fluidengage.org index page and here is the copy
> that will appear on that page.  With this as our guide, I think that L best
> captures the project goals, the work, the outcome, and the community.
>
> Blurb:
> Transforming museum content for mobile, web, and in-house experiences -- all
> for the delight of the visitor.
> Paragraph:
> Fluid Engage is building flexible software tools to enhance the visitor
> experience in museums and cultural institutions.  Engage makes it easy for
> visitors to connect with content, interact with objects, and extend the
> museum visit.  Prepare for a full-featured visitor adventure.
>
> Best,
> Jess
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> Jess Mitchell
> Boston, MA, USA
> Project Manager / Fluid Project
> jess at jessmitchell.com
> / w / 617.326.7753  / c / 919.599.5378
> jabber: jessmitchell at gmail.com
> http://www.fluidproject.org
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> On Nov 10, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
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> On 9-Nov-09, at 5:13 PM, James William Yoon wrote:
>
> We've come up with five good candidates for the Fluid Engage logo.
>
>
> Very nice work!
>
> I very much like the idea of the circle of people somehow "affecting" the
> letter 'e' - I think it captures some of the principles of Engage well -
> people contributing to the exhibits with tagging, etc.
>
> I also agree with the comments about the tilted 'e' reminding them of the
> Internet Explorer logo. Perhaps the 'e' could be modified in some other way?
> Enlarged a bit, or bolded, or otherwise embellished? Lots of people seem to
> like the 'many dots' logo - perhaps the circle of people could somehow be
> adding the many dots to the 'e'? :-)
>
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> Anastasia Cheetham                       a.cheetham at utoronto.ca
> Interface Developer, Fluid Project      http://fluidproject.org
> Adaptive Technology Resource Centre   /   University of Toronto
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