New logo for AlekSIS

changed due date to January 10, 2020

added part::non-technical workflow::discussing labels

The logo should:

• Convey that this is an app for schools
• Convey that it does something with data/information
• Be understandable in as many regions and by as many cultures as possible
• Maybe contain a reference to Greece/something easily connectable to the word Aleksis
• Be usable both in a Material icon and elsewhere (maybe that means: design in different colours for marketing, but also good-looking in monochrome)

changed due date to January 24, 2020

should be square

should be understandable in small form factors (which means less details etc)

We should design it as easy as possible so everyone understands what it means.

assigned to @fph

Assigning to @fph in order to do anything required to get proposals/drafts/etc. from Katharineum students. Ideally, we should have news within two weeks, so we can use the logo or a draft at FOSDEM and CLT.

Drafts: Antique school building

Here are two logo drafts, or better, one base draft in two variants.

The base for the logo is a regular, antique, Greek building, with a clock in its roof to make it look more like a school. In fact, that's pretty much what they looked like - like a temple with a clock ;).

Both logos can be colorised in different ways:

• In greyscale, like depicted below for simplicity
• In a colour palette built from the primary and secondary CI colours of the school or whatever
• In monochrome, e.g. white, to use it as an icon

In small variants, the details of the clock can be removed.

Variant 1 - Antique school building with upwards chart

The first (left) variant has the columns of the building stylised as a bar chart, with an arrow reinstating the meaning like a chart with an upwards trend. It symbolises both that AlekSIS works with data, and that it makes everything better.

Variant 2 - Antique school building with compass

The second (right) variant has the three middle columns replaced by a compass, to visualise the relation to schools and education even better. The ruler in its middle makes up the horizontal line of the letter A (for AlekSIS).

I think the left one looks more like a bank or something with shares.

I slept a night over it and thought again about the second draft. For some reasons I started to like this one .

It meets our requirements and if you can customize it via the settings, it would adapt great to the rest of AlekSIS.

removed due date

changed due date to February 07, 2020

changed due date to February 21, 2020

Listing ideas from the challenge:

• Should be square
  • nothing to discuss
• Convey that this is an app for schools
  • book
  • school building
  • pencil
  • academic cap
  • board
  • greek temple?
• Convey that it does something with data/information
  • binary code
  • letter i
  • some squares
  • puzzle
• Be understandable in as many regions and by as many cultures as possible
  • using symbols
• Be usable both in a Material icon and elsewhere
  • nothing to discuss
• Should be understandable in small form factors
  • nothing to discuss
• Maybe contain a reference to Greece/something easily connectable to the word Aleksis
  • colors from greek flag
  • letter alpha
  • AlekSIS in greek letters

mentioned in merge request !167 (merged)

Current draft as a result from dev meeting and a new idea.

added part::non-technical workflow::discussing labels

closed via merge request !167 (merged)

mentioned in commit 42f82670

changed milestone to %2.0a2

unassigned @fph