O/H Nicu Buculei έγραψε:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
> Some more thoughts:
> - birds are associated with "brainless" in some cultures. Parrots are
> worse as they add "ornemental" (and mean) to the mix
Around here is an insult to call someone "parrot". But in my
understanding, *any* symbol you use, in some part of the world it will
have a negative connotation.
+1. In greek calling one a parrot means he repeats things he hears without
knowing what they mean (like students copying book paragraphs in exams). I'm
afraid we'll probably have to make a compromise at some point. :)
> - most of the proposals are overly complex or reliant on colours.
The
> mascot must scale gracefully to low-resolution media or those where each
> used colour costs (CDs, T-shirts). That's why successful mascots like Tux
> or the Java guy are designed to degrade gracefully in monochrome low-res
> outline mode
I kinda disagree, the proposals we got so far are mostly black and white
sketches, without having yet colors added, so we may evolve them in such
a direction.
One thing I like about Rodrigo's Arrara: for small size display (like a
favicon or web button) we can use only the head, without the rest of the
body.
I agree with this as well.
-d
PS: What's "arrara"? I tried finding it in wikipedia with no luck.
"Ararauna" is
the closest thing I found:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-and-yellow_Macaw
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