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Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by weaksauce »

ape4 wrote: post #32
srgseg wrote: post #29

http://www.one-tab.com/web/images/tarsnap.png A castle and medieval font to convey security and resilience Use of a font with a distinctive R to help it appear as TAR-SNAP and not TARS-NAP A monospaced font with underscores to convey that this for the UNIX command line Subtle gold/silver colors that convey a history of widely acknowledged value and future longevity Font: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/metamorphous…

Not bad. I think that castle is somewhat busy for a logo.

Maybe just the silhouette would work.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by stevewillows »

AnotherDesigner wrote: post #34

I've wrote about this a few times on HN before. You guys like to downvote me every time I do but here we go again ... Good designers, the ones you want if this is important to you, don't do contests. We have families to feed and bills to pay. "Winning" a popularity contest, not based on substance but instead on style, doesn't allow us to support ourself and our families doing our work. So, who are the designers doing…

You probably spent more time writing this comment than it would have taken to design something simple for them.

I do agree that contests are shit and that we never take part in them. This contest is unique in that he doesn't want a designer as much as someone who 'get it' and doesn't need any direction.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by huhtenberg »

dpapathanasiou wrote: post #10
cperciva wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no idea what I might like. I'm hoping to get some discussion and sharing of ideas -- including from people who don't have any interest in or ability to actually produce a logo themselves. If I knew that, say, I wanted a graphic of a piece of tar being snapped in half, I'd look for an artist and say "here's $500, please draw this for me". But given that I have no idea what I want, I figure the more people I inv…

But given that I have no idea what I want, I figure the more people I invite to provide ideas the better. You can just do what Steve Jobs did with Next: pick a designer you like, and leave it entirely up to him. Ironically not because Jobs didn't have ideas on what he wanted but because the designer insisted: "I asked him if he would come up with a few options, and he said, 'No, I will solve your problem for you and…

NeXT logo is plain awful. I know it comes with 47 page manual explaining why the cube should be rotated by 17 (?) degrees, what the colors mean and all that, but the simple fact is that it simply didn't match the sleek nature of NeXTs themselves.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by user24 »

huhtenberg wrote: post #67
cperciva wrote: post #40

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Good designers, the ones you want if this is important to you, don't do contests. I'm not looking for a good designer. I'm looking for a hacker (ideally a unix hacker) who happens to have some design skills.

Then you should've not offered the $ reward. This motivates wrong kind of people and sure as hell it does not do much to motivate a "hacker with some design skills".

Why? Because money is evil? Because True Hackers don't "sell out"?

And so what if the 'wrong kind of people' start submitting designs. I bet the contest runners would be happier with an arsehole submitting a fantastic logo, than a lovely person submitting a crap one.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by jyap »

neilk wrote: post #66

Did a sketch of an idea here: https://github.com/neilk/tarsnap-logo/blob/master/tarsnap.pn... I wanted to get away from castles and locks and such. You can check out the README if you want to know what my thought process was, but it should be distinctive and appealing without an explanation.

I quite like it.

Note that the font is not free. From the fine print: Use by more than 25 Users, or equivalent Website Visitors, is a breach of this Free Licence Agreement, and instead requires a commercial licence.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by huhtenberg »

user24 wrote: post #74
huhtenberg wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you should've not offered the $ reward. This motivates wrong kind of people and sure as hell it does not do much to motivate a "hacker with some design skills".

Why? Because money is evil? Because True Hackers don't "sell out"? And so what if the 'wrong kind of people' start submitting designs. I bet the contest runners would be happier with an arsehole submitting a fantastic logo, than a lovely person submitting a crap one.

It's one thing to motivate people with a challenge and another is to prey on their need for the money. For me, personally, it's border-line unethical.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by ceejayoz »

huhtenberg wrote: post #67
cperciva wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good designers, the ones you want if this is important to you, don't do contests. I'm not looking for a good designer. I'm looking for a hacker (ideally a unix hacker) who happens to have some design skills.

Then you should've not offered the $ reward. This motivates wrong kind of people and sure as hell it does not do much to motivate a "hacker with some design skills".

Who gives a flying fuck?

If someone was going to make a free Tarsnap logo, they're unlikely to be deterred by the possibility of a small reward for it.

The only downside to the "wrong kind of people" entering is more entries to look through. Who cares what kind of person they are if the logo's good?

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by huhtenberg »

ceejayoz wrote: post #77
huhtenberg wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then you should've not offered the $ reward. This motivates wrong kind of people and sure as hell it does not do much to motivate a "hacker with some design skills".

Who gives a flying fuck? If someone was going to make a free Tarsnap logo, they're unlikely to be deterred by the possibility of a small reward for it. The only downside to the "wrong kind of people" entering is more entries to look through. Who cares what kind of person they are if the logo's good?

There are people who really need those $500 (think - 3rd world countries where this is a luxurious sum on money) and who will enter because they are desperate. Then he makes a face, flips a finger and says it wasn't good enough. Does it not stink to you even one bit?

Of course contestants realize that they aren't likely to win, but if he's doing the right thing by setting up a mud wrestling match? I personally think he's not, so I do give a fuck.

Re: Tarsnap logo contest

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Post by parennoob »

SwellJoe wrote: post #65
cperciva wrote: post #18

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portsnap = SNAPshots of the FreeBSD PORTs tree tarsnap = TAR backups, in a SNAPshotted model (vs. incremental backups). I also liked the fact that it reminded FreeBSD users of portsnap, which is a very popular tool.

I understood the name immediately, but always considered it an awful name for most "normal" users. But, maybe UNIX culture will win in the end and "tar" will become a word everyone knows.

For what it's worth, I do know what 'tar' means -- I mostly use Linux (GNU/Linux if you're being pedantic), so the snap part was what I was asking about.
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