Design Doc: Logo
SiteMesh needs a logo.
A design contest shall be hosted on 99designs.com (funded by money made from AdSense on the existing opensymphony.com site).
Update: July 2009 Contest complete. Winning design at: http://99designs.com/contests/23286
‘A tagline goes here’ was originally a placeholder by the designer for us to replace. But actually we decided it itself was a good tagline, so decided to keep it.
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Logo for popular open source project
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Clean, simple and modern logo for web page layout framework (SiteMesh)
Describe your design task briefly (around 80 words) to grab designers attention.
SiteMesh is a popular open source framework that allows web site developers to separate content from look and feel, and break their site down into components that can be ‘meshed’ together. For 10 years it has survived with no logo, but with a major new release on the horizon, the time has come to give it a strong identity.
This can be the website address, your company name or a product brand.
SiteMesh
Give a list of things your design must have, for example a particular tagline, color scheme or style.
- Font: Feel free to use whatever font you like, or create your own. Remember that SiteMesh is associated with clean and simple. If you use (or derive from) an existing font, please specify what font this is and where it can be obtained.
- Background: The logo should be on a flat (single color) background, so it is easy to place in different places. If the background is not white, please also supply a variation of the logo that has a white background (e.g. to use in print outs).
- Color scheme: Up to you.
- Theme: Clean, simple, modern.
- Variations: Would like two variations of the logo:
1. The worded logo: This focus of this must be the word ‘SiteMesh’. It will typically be used in the header of every page of the website, documentation, etc.
2. The icon based logo: This would typically appear in small square placements (e.g. a desktop icon). It does not need to contain the text ‘SiteMesh’ but should be easy to recognize as associated with the worded logo. Should look good at small sizes (e.g. 42×42).
- Format: Please supply original high-resolution files of whatever tool you use to create the logo (e.g PSD, EPS…), so I can make modifications and rescale in the future as necessary.
Give a list of things you don’t like, for example capital letters or rainbows.
- Contest complete. http://99designs.com/contests/23286