for the contest Webmin Logo
Regarding design #62
The third one looks really good. Very professional. But, it doesn't have a lot of personality. I'm not sure it gives any feel for what Webmin is. But I like the two tone color scheme and the very font with nice custom accents. The dot on the i is a particularly nice touch.
Regarding design #63
The 3d versions are too much. It holds up reasonably well in the monotone green version at the bottom...but I don't know if it's got any real meaning or personality beyond looking nice.
Regarding design #64
This one is cool. Really cool. The WM looks awesome. The colors are bold and distinctive. Font choice is nice. All around I like this logo. It doesn't say anything about what we do, but it looks good as hell doing it.
Regarding design #66
This one is kind of cute. It reminds me of Sun and Ubuntu logos, and that's not bad. We're not historically a hugely "community" kind of project...but connectivity is a huge part of what Webmin enables, so this connecting people up theme is nice. Nice use of fonts and colors, as well. Maybe the lighter blue could be something a bit more grey, but it's nice as is.
Regarding design #67
This one is probably even better, but it looks more like three "m"s than "WM". That might work, since the Webmin project is the parent to Webmin, Usermin, and Virtualmin. Maybe three m's should be our logo!
You've got a real professional style. Very clean, and you let the design and font choice do the talking, rather than too many elements fighting for attention. I like that (I'm only one of three people deciding, though!).
Regarding design #68
Ooh, the top one here is gorgeous. But it would suck on a T-shirt. The stacked WM version at the bottom works pretty nicely, though.
Submitted design #105
Well, with only two colors and can be put on a shirt with same excellent impact.
Look at the gift tags... ;)
By me ... a logo should work excellent in flat colors and then you can add the web 2.0 impact. Marketing materials aren't quite printable in web 2.0 colors, or at least it's very expensive. That's why i have provided additional logo placings, to create your self an image of what it's possible and what it's not, while usually the client always wants impact from the first view.
Regarding design #105
The proof is in the pudding. Or the T-shirt. I stand corrected. ;-)
Regarding design #105
Well i am glad, if you would like to see some additional marketing materials and placing idea, i will be gladly helpful.
Cheers,
Emi
Regarding design #130
I like this, too. You're a real pro! All really solid executions. This one has a nice flower-like feel for the WM. Like tulips. It's pretty cool. (Though the WM isn't very legible...kinda more like a WN...or a nN.)
Regarding design #189
The second and third one are nice--the third is not as good as webmin3 above, but the second is a nice possible alternative to 6.
I don't like the icon or the font on the first of these--too busy, way too much going on.
The remainder ones on the bottom are likewise too fussy. The font is wrong as well as the icon having too many elements at war for attention.
Regarding design #67
Hey ulauts,
Kevin has chimed in with his thoughts on this one (it's his favorite):
"The icon developed for this logo is a very clever design combining three Ms or three Ws (depends on how you want to look at it), to create a very pleasing and friendly shapre that also seems to doubles as a sort of anthropomorphic webmin character/mascot. The fact that it works well as both 3D and 2D elements is also a nice plus. However, I think I would have liked it facing the webmin typography rather than walking away from it, so it looks like it's posing with rather than standing against. The web typography is very appropriate for the design and I like that he kept it simple.
As Joe stated in his comments, I think what takes it up a notch for me is that the triumvirate character can also show that Webmin is the foundation for not just Webmin, but Usermin and Virtualmin as well."
So, Kevin's ringing endorsement (and the fact that Jamie and I like most of your work) brings it into the running and puts it in the top five or so entries. If you have time to make a few more runs at this idea, perhaps with Kevin's suggested change, it'd probably be a great idea. ;-)
