MOSS Logo/slogan

[hussain....@gmail.com]

lets re-open this thread- http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/browse_thread/thread/ea31dff965b350d6
as a competition (winner get a gift) and also what about a slogan for
MOSS?

rgrds
Hussain

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi all,

Find attached a sample logo (on black and on white) that I have been working on!

Your suggestions and comments are highly encouraged!

Also note you all are free to submit logo's and slogans for MOSS.

Just my 2.09 cents on this! :)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

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Salam,
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Naail AbdulRahman]

very nice. This just SCREAMS to be printed on t-shirts!

btw once we have something finalized, I was hoping we could have a
"badge" thing that moss members and advocates can display on their
blogs/websites etc preferrably linking to the moss website. I reckon
that would garner some attention towards the movement.

[Ali Akram]

hello everyone! thought i'd drop some contributions from my side.

here are some logos i've been working on for MOSS, let me know your ideas about this work so i can make further alterations.

[Ali Akram]

do view it LARGE

[Inash Zubair]

Hello Akram,

These are excellent. Can we meet up sometime with the working group to tweak the logo? Please email me your contact. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

Hi Inash,

Thank you, I'm currently in India and will go back to Male' after 5 or 6 months. I guess online meet up is the option we are left with and please do acknowledge my contact no. +919902358110.

Thanks

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Cool,

I like the M2, but might need to change the color... Say orange or yellow!

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

Hello Akram,

Will you be able to get online on IRC #moss on freenode tonight at 11 pm Male' time? If that works for you anyone who wants to discuss about the logo are welcome to join the conversation. Cheers.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Ali Akram <macrof...@gmail.com> wrote:

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

sorry Inash, I forgot to get online at that time and not quite familiar with IRC. anyway we can still communicate with mail or chat.

just a slight change in logo

your comments are welcome about the colours, typo, design, etc,
cheers.

[V Shah]

Excellent work. Like all your other works too. Great to have a
talented artist contributing to MOSS.

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Sent from my mobile device

[Rasheed]

Personally I like Akram's M1 than the variations with the red, green
and white.
I suggest to get some professional advice for this. There are a lot of
talented young Maldivian with a good design skills. Get them
involved.

And at least get the logo artist to write a two paragraph description
of what the logo represents. It would be very helpful to write a small
brief for the designers to work with... what should the logo represent
(what does MOSS represent)?

Tomato Rach

>  m7.png
> 101KViewDownload

[Dosbe]

Akram's M1

[Vishah]

I prefer M2. :)

[Inaz]

here's my shot at a logo..

the principles:
as SIMPLE as possible. doesnt look like it represents some complicated stuff
looks OPEN to all.. to reflect the open source-ness!
easily replicable..

cheers
Inaz

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, hussain....@gmail.com <hussain....@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ali Akram]

totally agree with Rasheed to get professional advice for the logo

i think we need more exposure to get this going, i mean why not open up a design contest on facebook? i know there are lot of Maldivian designers out there. likewise use twitter for the campaign.

[Inaz]

SWELL idea on facebook/twitter!

[MrCrΛft]

Hey,
What a surprise bro! Glad to know that you are a part of this
community.
Excellent work!

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Sure some nice logos! Keep them coming...

Here are some more concepts that I have been working on!

Enjoy!

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[chopey]

M1 and M2 of Akram is my choice too.

On Jul 27, 5:57 am, Ali Akram <macrofict...@gmail.com> wrote:

> hello everyone! thought i'd drop some contributions from my side.
>
> here are some logos i've been working on for MOSS, let me know your ideas
> about this work so i can make further alterations.
>

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Naail AbdulRahman <kuda...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
>
> > very nice. This just SCREAMS to be printed on t-shirts!
>
> > btw once we have something finalized, I was hoping we could have a
> > "badge" thing that moss members and advocates can display on their
> > blogs/websites etc preferrably linking to the moss website. I reckon
> > that would garner some attention towards the movement.
>
> > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 02:20 +0500, Yusuf Abdulla Shunan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
>
> > > Find attached a sample logo (on black and on white) that I have been
> > > working on!
>
> > > Your suggestions and comments are highly encouraged!
>
> > > Also note you all are free to submit logo's and slogans for MOSS.
>
> > > Just my 2.09 cents on this! :)
>
> > > Salam
> > > Yusuf Abdulla Shunan
>

> > > On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, hussain.maldic...@gmail.com
> > > <hussain.maldic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >         lets re-open this thread-
>

> >http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/browse_thread/thread/ea31dff965...

> > >         as a competition (winner get a gift) and also what about a
> > >         slogan for
> > >         MOSS?
>
> > >         rgrds
> > >         Hussain
>
> > > --
> > > Salam,
> > > Yusuf Abdulla Shunan
>
>
>

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[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

I personally like Akram's logo too! But let us not stop there, feel free to submit as many logo's as one want. In addition with the spirit of MOSS I would like to propose one more thing.

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Everyone is free to take these concepts and build upon them and make them better in any way they want. Like the FLOSS way. It is ok, for others to use our work and improve them.
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Once we have our website up and running we can initiate an online voting of the 5 most promising logo's and come to a conclusion.

Until than, feel free to submit as many logo's as you want.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[afaal]

http://mlugmv.googlegroups.com/web/moss001.jpg?gda=FFpUMD0AAAAa_xp2sYuG5rKSCmCMEHiFpYvmuuo_EwLsupbhx3wkvSWr0VK5nCb4IyHcUuGNVDjlNv--OykrTYJH3lVGu2Z5

[afaal]

http://mlugmv.googlegroups.com/web/moss002.jpg?gsc=ywOScgsAAABKSv9eeAPvZdzlkWWCiyYZ

http://mlugmv.googlegroups.com/web/moss003.jpg?gsc=ywOScgsAAABKSv9eeAPvZdzlkWWCiyYZ

http://mlugmv.googlegroups.com/web/moss004.jpg?gsc=ywOScgsAAABKSv9eeAPvZdzlkWWCiyYZ

[MrCrΛft]

Guys, gimme your feedback on these.
http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/web/text3730.png
http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/web/text3731.png

Salaam,
Sobah

[Inash Zubair]

Hi,

A small description of the logo would be nice. I suppose if we use the font used by Akram in his logos, it'd be really nice. And what's with the baby logo?

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Inash Zubair

[MrCrΛft]

hehe. Inn, I tried to curve them to make and an M in the shape of a
man together with the head as O. And the other leg curl is suppose to
mean S.

I like bro's M1 but i think there must be a symbol/icon together with
it.

On Aug 20, 4:34 pm, Inash Zubair <inash.zub...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A small description of the logo would be nice. I suppose if we use the font
> used by Akram in his logos, it'd be really nice. And what's with the baby
> logo?
>

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hehe

The looks of a baby!!!! :)

I still support the M2 or M7 by Akram!

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

On Aug 20, 4:34 pm, Inash Zubair <inash.zub...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A small description of the logo would be nice. I suppose if we use the font
> used by Akram in his logos, it'd be really nice. And what's with the baby
> logo?
>

[Naail AbdulRahman]

Hey guys.

Since this logo/slogan deal doesn't appear to have an end in sight, I
propose setting a deadline date for submitting logos so we can finalize
things already.

I was thinking about a month or two should be enough?

peace
SoE

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Sure, we will need to set a deadline in the next weekly meeting.

[Ali Akram]

guys, just tweaked M2 version with new linked letters and changed font of the text. give me your feed back on this.

[Ali Akram]

typo error: feedback

[Inash Zubair]

Hello Akram.

I just learnt from Sobah that you're his brother. It's good to know that and to have your support. As for the subject at hand, I would like to congratulate you on the revisions of the logos and these two are exceptional as your previous work.

I like M2 but it needs to have the title text of M2.1. I would consider that a perfect logo and final from my perspective. We could then go for a community vote with the rest of the logos.

We have also decided that we will close this issue between 10th and 15th September.

One other thing. A color scheme needs to be selected as well. We could concurrently vote for a color scheme as well, probably just a single color, a complementary scheme, analogous or monochromatic with 3 to 4 variations.

Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Inash Zubair]

Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_scheme for reference for the community.

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Inash Zubair

[Abdul Hameed]

Akram,

I like the first one, M2. But I think it'd be better to capitalize 'Maldives' in da first logo.

Very good effort.. congrats.

salaams,

Hamitte

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

I second the opinion of Inn, the first logo is good but the text that
is in Times New Roman need to be changed to another font! The second
logo typesetting looks better.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi all,

I am stuck in Seenu Hithadhoo with lot of time, a PC and internet. So
to kill time here is a color scheme for the MOSS Logo.

I have made Myriad Pro as the default font, but you all are welcome to
suggest alternatives.

I have also made two version of the logo proposed by Akrum, one
vertical and one horizontal.

The supportive colors are chosen as they are the colors that best
match with the chosen blue. These colors can be used as the
background, typesetting and other graphic uses.

As always comment and suggestions highly welcomed.

Akram, can you send the vector form of the logo! For this document I
have traced the logo so when zoomed to extremes it will show the mess.

I will do a proper usage document of the logo once everyone agrees
with this logo and it is finalized.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

Akram, Shunan:

I vote for what's been finalized now. Shunan, excellent job on compiling the typesetting document. Consider it final from me.

We should also buy the font, unless Shunan owns it. As far as I know Myriad is a pack of commercial fonts. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

hey everyone, I have a new design to show.
in this version I have added 3 similar crescents inside 'O' with red, green and white colour, basically to give it a Maldivian identity.
the font used in the text is Telegrafico.
pour in your views in the comments.

@Inn, as for the colour scheme, I think Shunan has done a pretty good job in his pdf about the colour scheme and typeface.

@Shunan, great job with your pdf and I don't have that font you've used in that document so I had to stick with the font I used previuosly. Lastly, I have included inkscape file, so feel free to make your own tweaks.

Regards,
Akram

[Ali Akram]

sorry wrong image in the previous post and pls find the inkscape file here.

[Inash Zubair]

Ok. We can pour in the crescent enhancements. Does they look good over black backgrounds?

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Inash Zubair

[Yasiph]

I like this one. m9 with cresents. but I suggest to make the cresents
thicker to maybe represent a curl. I think we should see this logo with
a thick x3 cresent/curl etc... and check how it looks.

great work people


tc
yasiph

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>

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi

I like the crescent version, however, we have tried and used the
present logo in presentation and others and it look pretty cool
without the crescent. I guess the name M stand for Maldives and it is
good enough to indicate the logo belongs to Maldives. :)

In design I guess the most difficult part is to know when to stop, huh? ;)

So I will vote for the logo as it was before M2 and as outlined in the
color scheme doc.

And yes I do own the Myriad Pro and find attached the font for anyone
who need to use it for MOSS.

[Ali Akram]

hello,

I have tried to make the crescent thick but another issue is how can we make the white crescent visible on a white background?
Red and Green works fine on white and black background. I hope you know what I'm saying.

I think we better stop here with the previous version as lot of members liked it the way before without crescent.

And regarding the text, I think it'd be good if we use the same font size through out the text because when we make the logo small in size the 'open source' part gets quite difficult to read. refer M9 in the previous post to see how it looks with the same font size.

what do you guys say?

[Inash Zubair]

Shunan: agreed!. We'll go with what's been finalized with the typesetting, right before the crescent enhancements. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Yasiph]

agreed. Carry on ppl.

so its m8 dho. Great!

[Ali Akram]

cool, we'll go with what's finalised,

but I have a point to note as said before, about the text, are we going to use the same font size or with size variations in the text?
there might be a problem of visibility in the 'open source' part when scaling :)

Akram

[Inash Zubair]

Akram,

You pose a good point. But I guess it will be alright. We wouldn't be using the logo on very small scales. And where necessary, we could always remove the text and just use the MOSS part. Let's go with this. We can come back and revise when ever the scaling problem happens. Savvy?

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

alright, then i guess its final now.

for now, we will keep as it is, right.

Regards,
Akram

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

HI again!

Thanks for finalizing the logo, find attached the logo color scheme
and usage guideline version 1.1.

Feel free to comment and voice suggestion is any.

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Salam,
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

This is awesome.

Shunan, please select a license for the logo to be reproduced and derived from. Creative Commons is ok as well. Any other open culture art derivative license that is compatible with our society would be alright as well.

Can I have a vector file of the logo to put up on the website?

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

good job Shunan,

one more thing, can you make the text a little bigger? so that it goes in line with top and bottom edge of whole MOSS part, giving it a fit look, hope you get my point.

excellent work again.

Salaam,
Akram

[Naail AbdulRahman]

glad to see that this is finalized. Congratulations bro!

when are we getting a formal declaration of this?


on a side note is anybody officially maintaining a time-line for MOSS
and important events like this one? I think it's important to document
our history.

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Akram,

Thanks for noticing, will make that modification and excellent work
for you my friend.

Inn,

With respect to the copyright, just two questions,

1. Do we allow commercial uses of the logo?
2. Do we allow modifications of the logo?

Naail,
Well, we do have a calendar for events that are scheduled in the
future, but not for milestones. I guess one has to dig into this
mailing list to see the history now.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Naail AbdulRahman]

I don't see a problem with allowing commercial use (within limits of
course) and small modifications (to suit a particular purpose as long as
the essence of it is not lost)

we aren't big brother after-all :)


side-note: on the time-line thing - I suppose for the time being it will
suffice. recommend incorporating the feature into the website.

[Inash Zubair]

Shuna,

* We won't be allowing either commercial use of the logo unless certified partners use them for promotional materials of events and affiliated causes with MOSS, not their services or products.

* Modifications of the MOSS logo is not allowed where ever it is reproduced by 3rd parties for which ever material it's used on. Only the approved versions may be used.

* As for derivative work, the logo can be used to base other logo design work on. The similar use of font and typography can be replicated, so long as the original work is attributed.

* It doesn't matter if another party uses the same logo with the same font and colors for their logo work, eg: APP1 (title text: The Number One App).

That's what I've had in mind. I'll prepare a more appropriate version and get back to you. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi!

Here is the final MOSS logo in SVG format (patterned!)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[MrCrΛft]

Hi,
Bro, an excellent job I must say, many thanks and congratulations!
Good to know that the logo is on it's final stages.

Guys, I think the font used in M8 looks much better, guess it's
calligraphy is attractive for me. I like the logo as it is in M8!

Shunan,
I think the file isn't accurate. I think a part of the file is
truncated.

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi

I the file optimized for InkScape and if you open in CorelDraw your
system will get corrupted and you will have to reinstall Windows. :)

Dude, in short try opening it in InkScape!

[Naail AbdulRahman]

hahah nice one shunan.

[MrCrΛft]

I tried to view the file you have shared above. I'm using Jaunty ;)!
Event the downloaded svg file looks the same as well... LOL check it
out!

[Mohamed Shaafiee]

Shunan,

I am impressed with the logo guideline document. Very nicely done.

[Naail AbdulRahman]

have you installed the required fonts?

you can find it in one of these posts by shunan

[Ali Akram]

I can see some unwanted lines between the logo text. did u guys notice it?

[Naail AbdulRahman]

nope. looks good to me

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi

The final MOSS logo with a lot of polishing and I have tested this one
both with Illustrator and CorelDraw too!

http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/web/MOSS_Logo_Final.svg

This look cool... :)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi

Find below the link for the Logo document with the License info added
to it.

http://groups.google.com/group/mlugmv/web/MOSS_Logo_V1.2.pdf

I went for the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
3.0, if this need to be changed let me know. I guess this license best
fit in the general idea that is floating around.

In addition some minor corrections were also made in this version,
like moss website address. ;)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

Hi.

With all that confirmed, I would like to ask from you that one of my partner designer has spotted some flaws with the logo and enhancements. So I would like to suggest these minor enhancements and improvements within the following days.

He also mentioned what Akram highlighted about the text being in different sizes and weight, which is a design flaw. So hope it's ok with all of you for the short period I'm requesting to bring about these changes from my side. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

I would love to see it improved by a superior designer.

Carry on, cheers.

Akram

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Hi

I hate when people place logic into design... Design is design, and it
is suppose to convey the message in style. ;)

So we need a professional opinion about the logo?

My suggestion is why not we place the logo to www.logopond.com and see
what they have to say. Thousands of professional's around the world
will see and if asked, will comment on ways to improve the logo.

Since Akram is the original creator of the logo, it would be nice if
he take the initiative and create an account and post the result! ;)

Lets get this finalized once in for all, I think it is taking too much
time.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

Shunan and all,

You say you hate when people place logic into design, yet you have said that logic is applied elsewhere, especially with ideas. A design is an idea and comes from a creative process and it has to be appealing in it's most generic form for all of us. Creativity comes from a logical process and if not given enough time to conjure ideas, a resulting design can be a failure (eg: architectural designs, engineering designs, etc).

We can proceed with how you have proposed and if Akram has the time, he can take the initiative to get feedback from the aforementioned community.

We have to show patience and I urge that this is an area where we need to show a special attention to. If this can be done within the following 3 days including the  weekend, I would have results from my side as well. We can finalize it the following week.

We also need to think economical in our effort of ideas. Since we're at this process, we might as well focus on this and build upon what's been proposed rather than coming back to this at a later time only to dispense more of our time with the same issue.

So I request a little patience from everyone just for a little while longer. Thank you. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

:) dude! Slip of my finger... Actually what wanted to say was "too
much logic!". Anyways, I am cool...

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Inn,

Just to make things clear! As for the logo are we

a) waiting/wanting to modify and amend the current logo or
b) in need of a new and fresh concept or
c) just waiting for something, anything? :)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Inash Zubair]

Shunan,

Not to modify but to amend/fix and make it right. We're not in need of a new or fresh concept. Just a little ironing out. The color scheme and everything is all good. And I think we could use a better font if that might happen to be a case.

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Inash Zubair

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Are we talking about the MOSS part or the writeup?

As someone did raised the fact that the logo from a far looks like
NOSS rather than MOSS!

As for the font of the writeup part, let us experiment a bit, I am
leaving to Male' at 4:30, and will do some font experimentation!

Everyone feel free to post your versions.

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[skair ismail]

[skair ismail]

[Ali Akram]

Shunan, it might happen as letters are very close together, if that's the case we can use M8 version instead, MOSS part is much easier to read and I guess the M will not be confused for N again.

everyone judge it for yourself and have a say about this.

see M8.1 below.

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

I am cool and love this version! ;)

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Abdul Hameed]

Shunan's right. It's damn hot!..

Love da design.. great work! Bravo!!

salaams,
Hamitte

[Yusuf Abdulla Shunan]

Akram,

If there are no objections from any other I guess we have a winner, 8.1.png!

Can we get a vector file of this so I can update the needful!

Salam
Yusuf Abdulla Shunan

[Ali Akram]

I'm cool with it but as Inash raised some valid points I think we need to give it a shot.

Can anybody contact Inash if he has made any progress with fixing the logo?

We need to get this done a.s.a.p.

Salaam,
Akram

[skair ismail]

v salhi

[Inash Zubair]

Hi Akram,

Amendments are pending, although we've decided to use M8.1 for the time being for the current tasks at hand and for the SFD09 event. We will get back to the issue afterwards. Cheers.

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Inash Zubair

[Ali Akram]

all right, get the vector file here.

thanks.
Akram.

[Abdul Hameed]

so this is the final version?