Here are two old wood cuts of a phoenix, a bit intricate for a logo, but they could be redrawn or gimped and reduced in detail as needed, so that they would reproduce better as a logo. They have the "T" shape and I like the "attitude" they display <grin>.
I also own a nice line drawing logo, of a woodpecker, that I had made, for a business I started in the 80s, which I would donate if you are interested. I would have attached it but I have to go find it in my archives first, and don't want to bother unless you are interested in seeing it.
Keith
On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Alexandre ac586133@hotmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the info; I had no idea as there is no such connotation in English! Dragons don't exactly have a good reputation in English though, and crows even less so unfortunately.
No, there is no hard and fast reason for the mascot having to be a bird; my thoughts were just that we already have a big flightless bird as the Linux logo, and birds are lightweight and fast.
But my cat is big, strong and fast, and it is certainly flightless :)
We could pick another mythical beastie--gryphon? Salamander ("blazingly fast")? Pegasus (flies and carries loads->fast and can support your business)? Heraldic antelope (well, okay, I'm not really serious about that one)? A phoenix might be appropriate ("rising from the ashes of KDE3"), but we'd have to be careful to avoid treading on the toes of the old Firefox logo (from the days before they got into a trademark dispute with Firebird and had to change their name).
E. Liddell
E. Liddell,
I love your idea about the salamander, and I'll also consider the Heron! I saw that some apps can convert pictures to SVG, but I don't know if they worth it. Ill have to test.
I bought for my work a Windows 8 (required for industrial software...) Lenovo Ideapad S210 touch, so I'll see if it work well or not to draw with the touch screen. Pretty impressed with this machine for now!
Thank you! -Alexandre
