Please post your logo idea or image here.

Ideas without Graphics

  • Adobe bricks spelling the name
  • A clothesline with each shirt having a different letter on it
I like this suggestion of the clothesline and letters. As a guess, I think separate shirts would be challenging to pull off, but a single shirt, potentially embroidered or otherwise bearing the name, hanging on a clothesline would be cool. This scheme also seems like it would work somewhat independently of choice of name. --Curtbeckmann 15:32, 24 September 2006 (PDT)

Ideas with Graphics

1. just an idea --Lonny 13:10, 1 July 2006 (PDT)
2. yet another idea --Lonny 09:44, 7 August 2006 (PDT)
3. I like hands --Curtbeckmann 21:54, 29 September 2006 (PDT)
4. Developed by Paul Moers of saulmade --Curtbeckmann 21:54, 29 September 2006 (PDT)
File:Istockphoto 2070082 solar cooker.jpg
5. Is this AT? --Curtbeckmann 19:26, 1 October 2006 (PDT)
6. el concepto mio --Tressie 22:26, 3 October 2006 (PDT)
7. revision 2 shadows --Tressie 11:00, 23 October 2006 (PDT)
8. rev 3, moved text --CurtB 10:06, 27 October 2006 (PDT)
8a
9. Appropedia Logo - Vectorized Tressie 16:51, 5 November 2006 (PDT)
9a


The hands photo is a "concept". I propose either a handshake, or a "high five" with appropriate stuff in the background. The photo above is okay, multiethnic, but kids. The micro photo is a "favicon" made from a section of the same photo. If you use Firefox, you can associate the favicon (click on it to download to your machine) with Appropedia by downloading the appropriate version of Favicon_Picker extension (see http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=321562). It's an xpi file that I didn't know what to with at first; open the "extensions" window in Firefox and drag the xpi file into it. Install, restart Firefox, right click bookmark, select properties and it's straight forward. --Curtbeckmann 22:08, 29 September 2006 (PDT)

The iStock solar cooker photo is easy to buy (about $1). I think the teapot spout detail of the solar cookers could be picked up as favicon. I'll try that when I'm bored. --Curtbeckmann 19:26, 1 October 2006 (PDT)

Solar cookers are an excellent example of AT, but wrot with controversy over failed aid-based projects. That said, I do think we should try to incorporate solar elements into the logo if we can. Just some intial comments. Let's keep putting out ideas for awhile. --Lonny 20:08, 1 October 2006 (PDT)
I like the concept of 7. el concepto mi. Sun, wind power, water in different forms, plants including cattail (wastewater treatment plant). I would like to see this more finished, with the name more apparent and with some people in silhouette (is that possible?). Thank you Tressie for the great draft.--Lonny 00:42, 4 October 2006 (PDT)
Added my hacked version (8) as a suggestion that Tressie might make gorgeous? --CurtB 10:06, 27 October 2006 (PDT)
I like Tressie's (#7, or #8 is my hacked version) so much, I made a new favicon (8a). Looks cool as the mini-logo associated with Appropedia in my Firefox browser (see above on how to do that...all that work is not necessary once we choose an official logo, we can also define the favicon). --CurtB 22:21, 29 October 2006 (PST)

Hi All, What do you think of the new logo and favicon? I was thinking maybe a favicon that included the 3 grey radial parts of the logo... but I like this for now. In addition, we need to keep working on a subtitle. Awesome work, Tressie! --Lonny 18:41, 5 November 2006 (PST)

Subtitle

Rather than "The Free Encyclopedia" on the top left of every page, how about something like:

   * A living library of appropriate technology
   * A living library of appropriate technology and development issues
   * Appropriate technology, development and sustainability 

While I always like to be comprehensive, something short and snappy would be best for a subtitle... --Singkong2005 t - c 23:19, 28 June 2006 (PDT) (from Village pump)

I propose:
   * A collaborative how-to guide to building a better world for all
   or
   * A collaborative guide on How to build a better world
   or
   * A collaborative guide to building a better world

Isn't that what we're trying to do from a "destination" perspective? That is, aren't appropriate and sustainable technologies and development techniques a means to that end? Well, really I was just aiming for snappy --Curtbeckmann

===List of possible subtitles

  • A living library of appropriate technology --Lonny
  • A living library of appropriate technology and development issues --Singkong2005
  • Appropriate technology, development and sustainability --Singkong2005
  • A collaborative how-to guide to building a better world for all --Curtbeckmann
  • A collaborative guide on How to build a better world --Curtbeckmann
  • A collaborative guide to building a better world --Curtbeckmann
  • A living library of sustainability and enhancement (I do not like this one, but I want to address people in poor conditions feeling like sustainability is about sustaining their poor conditions). --Lonny
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