[okfn-labs] okfnlabs rebranding

Wed May 29 01:29:58 UTC 2013

Hi Gregor,

Great to get feedback and this. I think you are spot on that this
should have the sense of "a fun place to hang around and hack on
interesting stuff" and its up to us as a community to get something
that fits this.

Would you have concrete suggestions for improvements - be that
examples of inspiration or even, if you were up for it, a mockup?

(Aside: it would certainly be nice to add back some nice artwork
including my favourite hodge-podge transformer
https://github.com/okfn/okfn.github.com/blob/master/img/hodgepodge.png
...)

Rufus

On 29 May 2013 00:07, Gregor Aisch <gregor.aisch at okfn.org> wrote:
>
> Oh no, what happened to the dark & wam & geeky okfnlabs theme?
>
> To me the new look feels rather cold and emotionless, like a bright, windowless office room illuminated with neon tubes, lacking any sign of personality and human life. Not a fun place to hang around and hack on interesting stuff, but a serious place to do serious work on (probably boring) projects.
>
> While I see that this is formally correctly representing the OKF corporate identity, the design has moved far away from attracting geeks and hackers, which I thought used to be the purpose of of the site.
>
> Best,
> Gregor
>
>
>
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