[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython logo redux

[Bob Ippolito]

On Nov 8, 2003, at 12:19 PM, Arthur Elsenaar wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> another comment about the icon issue..
>
> Someone wrote:
>
>>>  > OK, compromise.  What we need is a friendly, totemic, 16 ton 
>>> snake.
>>>
>>> With a big foot that squashes things?  Sort of an upside-down 
>>> Trogdor...
>>
>> Excellent.  I second this.
>
> I thought about this too and like the fact that we can get away from 
> the (terrible..) Apple logo. I did some graphic design today with a 
> big monty python foot squashing a big X.
>
> And indeed, isn't Apple about big X's these days? What versions did we 
> have till now: Aqua blue, Jaguar skin and brushed metal. This made me 
> think of having a big X with a python skin.. but, that wouldn't 
> communicate clearly enough, because it's too subtle. So why don't we 
> go back to Bob's proposal, but exchange the Apple with a big X.
>
> Maybe even better, have the snake (with glasses 8-) curled up -in- the 
> X, like hanging in a tree. I'm an artist, but not the pixel-pushing 
> type, so maybe Bob's artist can have a go at this?

This has been mentioned a few times already, but the apple is not a 
static part of the logo.

> Also, I like the fact that using the X is pointing to where 
> MacPython's future is. (Hmm, maybe a big X made of chocolate -> Cocoa? 
> This is pointing to an old Dutch tradition, so Jack, Just and Guido 
> might like it..)
>
> Arthur
> ps: for the curious, you can see my quick mockups at 
> http://artifacial.org/tmp/

No offense, I don't like the idea of associating a foot with my 
programming language.  I like that less than the 16ton weight.

-bob