Jun 27 2008

Flickr revisited – the making of a logo

Published by Rose at 10:21 am under Book Reviews, ILS599web2.0 and tagged: , , , , ,




I’ve been having computer fun recently: I made a wiki. Of course I needed a logo for it. This is where the “fun” starts. Yes, there are other terms for this: wasting time, fooling around, getting bogged down in details…

I searched through all the photos I’ve uploaded to flickr for a picture of books. Of course while I was there I renamed, changed permissions, and added tags to a bunch of other photos and created a new set, called Libraries, for the pictures I take while travelling. My husband collects colleges; I collect libraries.

When I found a suitable picture,

original picture used for logo

I cropped it with a picnik tool to get what I thought would be a good image across the top of my wiki. I like it. Alas, I didn’t realize at that point that the logo that wikispaces.com wants is a square. And not only a square, but one that is less than 150 x 150 pixels.

Here is my first crack at a logo. Feel free to use it:

first logo attempt

Finally, I ended up with this:

logo for my wiki, Not Just for the Young It’s very abstract, while hinting of books, and has nice colors, albeit a little dark.

After all this, it seems that my wiki has no title. The only way I’ve figured out how to include on is to put it at the top of each page. Weh.

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