<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">On 19 Jun 2019, at 20:05, James Cole <<a href="mailto:james@openstack.org" class="">james@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi everyone,<br class=""><br class="">Thanks again for all your feedback on the last round of logo ideas. As someone in a non-technical role, your expert perspectives have been really helpful when designing. Before going too far down any rabbit trails, I wanted to update you on some logo progress.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">After our last email exchange, I decided to scrap a majority of my concepts because some were too similar to Ubuntu’s mark and others were a little too generic. While the epicyclic gear idea generally seemed to have the most potential, gear icons have come to represent very unspecific things like system settings or unrelated things like bicycle shops and manufacturing. A gear might also introduce confusion between Rust-VMM and the Rust programming language, which uses an R inside a gear as its primary symbol. It seemed like a worthwhile exercise to try something different.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">One problem with any iconographic representation of this project is that the functionality is too complex to distill into a simple visual symbol. I emailed Andreea Florescu for some advice and further explanation about the project, and she suggested thinking about Rust-VMM as a sort of collection of puzzle pieces.<br class=""><br class="">After a lot of iterations, I came up with an R icon that is constructed from puzzle pieces. It is simple, easily recognizable, and doesn’t depend on the functionality of the project to make conceptual sense. I’ve mocked it up in a few different ways to show how it could live on a shirt, sticker, and as a GitHub avatar.<br class=""><br class="">I would love to get your feedback on idea in the attached PDF and if you think something like this could work. The PDF is also available online here. Please let me know your thoughts.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); float: none; display: inline !important;">It looks great. Also, it is fundamentally monochrome, so we could for example use color variations for specific aspects of the project (e.g. for specific crates, etc)</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); float: none; display: inline !important;">Thank you for the great work!</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); float: none; display: inline !important;">Christophe</span><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class="">Thank you!<br class=""><br class="">James Cole<br class="">Graphic Designer<br class="">OpenStack Foundation<br class=""><br class=""><Rust-VMM_LogoConcepts_R2.pdf><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Mar 19, 2019, at 4:29 PM, James Cole <<a href="mailto:james@openstack.org" class="">james@openstack.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Greetings Rust-VMM Team,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">My name is James Cole and I’m a Graphic Designer with the OpenStack Foundation. We’ve been working on some logo concepts for Rust-VMM and wanted to share them with you. I’ve attached a PDF to this message, or you can view the document online here.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">From your earlier brainstorm, it looked like a popular visual concept centered around the use of an epicyclic gear to illustrate the idea of systems within a system. Page 1 of the PDF shows a few examples of epicyclic gears from around the web and Page 2 shows a simplified epicyclic gear we created in a triangular configuration. <br class=""><br class="">Page 3 shows some of the more illustratively complex ideas for icons, although you’ll noticed detail can get lost at small sizes. Page 4 shows some additional variations and configurations of the triangular epicyclic gear idea.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Pages 5 and 6 are mostly there to show how some of the icons can work beside the name, although we haven’t really dug into typography yet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">I’d love to get your thoughts on this stuff and see if you’d be interested in pursuing any of these ideas further. I’ll be checking this thread for your feedback over the next few days before making changes or exploring more colors and typography.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class="">Thanks! Looking forward to hearing what you think!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">James Cole<br class="">Graphic Designer<br class="">OpenStack Foundation<br class=""><br class=""><Rust-VMM_LogoConcepts_R1.pdf><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Rust-vmm mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org" class="">Rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://lists.opendev.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rust-vmm" class="">http://lists.opendev.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rust-vmm</a></blockquote></body></html>