[open-economics] Fwd: A logo for the Open Economics Working Group

[Guo Xu]

On 8 June 2012 11:12, Guo Xu <digitalepourpre at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks good!
>
> How about an indifference curve? Taking away the bars (arrow instead
> points to the "better than" set).
>
> A half circle also looks pretty nice, I think?
>
> Guo
>
> On 8 June 2012 11:07, Velichka Dimitrova <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I am attaching the suggesting for an Open Economics logo from Sam Smith -
>> you can also see the other Working Group logos and compare it within a
>> context.
>>
>> Let me know what you think about it.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Velichka
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Sam Smith <sam.smith at okfn.org>
>> Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [open-economics] A logo for the Open Economics Working Group
>> To: Velichka Dimitrova <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org>
>>
>>
>> I have been working on your, and other working group logos. I decide to
>> create them as a set, to give some consistency, but more importantly,
>> because they all share the same requirement of needing to work with the OKFN
>> WordPress theme. I have included them all in the attachment so you can see
>> what I mean. Let me know what you think.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>>
>> On 31 May 2012 18:23, Velichka Dimitrova <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I agree - D/S is very blunt and not appropriate anyway - just thinking if
>>> there are any other images associated with Economics that could serve in the
>>> context of Open Economics - PPFs or anything else or just words?
>>>
>>> Velichka
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Dirk Heine <dirk.heine at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Good idea to have a logo!
>>>>
>>>> The specific suggestion of supply and demand functions might be
>>>> problematic, however, as this group is frequently dealing with network
>>>> phenomena where the concepts underlying such functions vary from their
>>>> standard textbook usage. I would therefore favour a different, not D/S
>>>> curve-related, logo.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Velichka Dimitrova
>>>> <velichka.dimitrova at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to ask for your opinion and input about a potential logo
>>>>> for the Working Group on Open Economics. Please let me know about if you
>>>>> have any ideas about what this logo could feature. I have a couple of
>>>>> questions to start on that:
>>>>>
>>>>> - Should it be only text or should it also include an image?
>>>>> - If it does include an image, what could that be? Supply and demand
>>>>> curves?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any contributions and suggestions are welcome!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Velichka Dimitrova
>>>>> Project Coordinator
>>>>> Economics and Energy Projects
>>>>> Open Knowledge Foundation
>>>>>
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