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New design: mostly fine, logo sucks

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Hi,

the key to determine the associative and energetic mood that any graphic work propels is to listen to yourself during 1-st half-second while watching. My mind says that a 3-year old baby has played too much with radioactive plasticine when I look at the logo. The new version of Vanilla logo is definitely worse, since it is not at all related to the concept, and is against the major laws of graphic design.

As to the rest of the graphic part, its mostly fine, yet too microsofty/slicky/nanny looking.

Any thoughts to add?
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  • Mike.XIIIMike.XIII
    Posts: 43
    The side panel lists with "PanelList" class look a bit strange to me, other than that I have no complaints.
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    Thanks for sharing your opinion!
  • LoOkOuTLoOkOuT
    Posts: 278
    LOL Mark!

    If you look in the blog a month back you'll find the designer's notes detailing the ideas behind the new Vanilla, Garden etc. logos and design. I found it interesting and like the new logos.
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    @LoOkOuT, could you link? I'd find that interesting and don't see it on the blog here.

    I think the logo is a little ridiculous, a little sexy, and a lot flavor. I dig it.

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

  • LoOkOuTLoOkOuT
    Posts: 278
    Linky
  • mis-onemis-one
    Posts: 223
    People that start posts like this normally have the worst sense of style/design.
  • SubJunkSubJunk
    Posts: 657
    Mm I'm not a great fan of the logo, but then I never thought the Google logo was anything great either... :p
  • TomTesterTomTester
    Posts: 669
    Just complained about the design/new color scheme in another post. Not meant as a diss, it's just heartfelt.

    FWIW, I think the new logo is nice, but probably not original. Haven't found the original yet (I'm not really looking either) but it just looks familiar to me. Now this could be a good thing, if it were a true original, but I get the feeling I've seen it before (on a trip to France to be exact).
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    It's quite original. See LoOkOut's "Linky" above.

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

  • HamedHamed
    Posts: 812
    I like it
    its actually pretty cool
  • hlfcodinghlfcoding
    Posts: 4
    the most non-software logo for software, so +1 from me

    tho the implementation for the new design does feel rushed, compared to version 1, though this is probably just a recency/maturity issue in the software

    for the line-breaks, maybe something like git/so-flavored markdown would be nice
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    Third time I've seen Markdown mentioned in 2 days. PHP version: http://michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/

    I'm going to have a look.

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

  • bennobenno
    Posts: 49
    @Lincoln - Did you get any where with Markdown? I was considering it as an alternative to a bbcode plugin on Vanilla 2?
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    @benno Not yet; I've been working on my importer first so I have something to test it on :) I'll make a discussion for it when I have something to report.

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

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