Re: Euphoria Logo Contest, will you participate?
- Posted by prickle Sep 07, 2009
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I think Gina's logos are very well made, despite the fact that blue sunbursts appear to be a signature mark for laundry detergents. 
My personal favourite is #6, I love the "o" although might I suggest removing the square brackets and periods from "open", it makes it look optional to me.
Euphoric's logos have potential as icons (the ones that don't immediately resemble existing company logos) but convey less meaning. An outsider would not know from looking what the logo represents without extra explanations, and I think this is important.
Now for my two cents. It's vaguely relevant. Uninterested readers turn away now. What follows is all my own worthless opinion but I put it forward anyway for your consideration.
Why I think Euphoria never did as well as it deserves: It's the name people! "Euphoria" sounds to me like someone is trying really hard to sell something. It has it's roots in the original commercial release where I think it worked well. The open community seems to regard it with some suspicion though, a humorous or technically clever name might be much more appropriate and suitable.
The other problem with "Euphoria" I see is as a name it is too easily overlooked, forgotten or otherwise makes less of an impression than it should. A name that is a unique word and promotes a moment's thought somehow by being clever or funny should make it stick in the mind and may promote more "Oh, I remember that.." moments for people.
Now I am terrible with names and can only offer criticism not suggestions but I really needed to get this off my chest. Phew.
Cheers, Nick.
