{"id":1700,"date":"2011-03-09T05:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2011-03-09T05:49:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T10:49:43","slug":"new-logos-acquired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=1700","title":{"rendered":"New logos acquired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No decision was taken as to whether we should move to a new logo, improve the one we already have or keep our existing logo just the way it is. What we&#8217;re planning is an overall refreshing new look for our websites, including the main website, the blog, the forums and the community website. We&#8217;ll organise contests and seek the best look and feel for our websites in the near future, but before we do that, it&#8217;s important we know what we want from our logo going forward. With this in mind, we organised a contest on our logo.<\/p>\n<p>An artists called <a href=\"http:\/\/secondalternative.deviantart.com\/\">Vast<\/a> improved our current logo by adding contrast to it, more depth and a silver look:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/designs\/7117418-original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/designs\/7117418-original\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/designs\/7117418-original\"><\/a><strong>Click on the picture to make it bigger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We were also impressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/people\/bogicevic\">Lazar Bogicevic<\/a>, who designed a logo which retains our identity and is more workable\/handy for branding than our current one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/designs\/7119936-original\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/99designs.com\/designs\/7119936-original\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Click on the picture to make it bigger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our logo is our identity and it&#8217;s not easy to change. A long process and reflection is ongoing about this as to whether and when we should switch and\/or improve our logo. We acquired the copyright for both designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No decision was taken as to whether we should move to a new logo, improve the one we already have or keep our existing logo just the way it is. What we&#8217;re planning is an overall refreshing new look for our websites, including the main website, the blog, the forums and the community website. We&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}