[Nfd-dev] NDN/NFD for Android

Wed Aug 12 09:27:35 PDT 2015

On Aug 12, 2015, at 8:51 AM, Burke, Jeff <jburke at remap.ucla.edu<mailto:jburke at remap.ucla.edu>> wrote:

Alex,

When do you want the block resolved?  Do we have time to at least try a logo design effort for a week or two, if this might be applied more broadly?

Given the amount of time it dragged me, I would like this particular block resolved asap (in whatever preliminary form).  At the same time, I want to use the opportunity to have a more coherent set of logos designed.  Though I don't want the design process to last too long or to distract us from other more important things.

Ok.  We are getting people together to do the "life of an NDN packet" video that was discussed at the last NDNComm, so might have artists that could generate a set of logos for discussion quite quickly.  Let me check.

Jeff

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Alex

From: Alex Afanasyev
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 8:49 AM
To: Jeff Burke
Cc: Lixia Zhang, "nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu<mailto:nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>"
Subject: Re: [Nfd-dev] NDN/NFD for Android

On Aug 12, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Burke, Jeff <jburke at remap.ucla.edu<mailto:jburke at remap.ucla.edu>> wrote:

On Aug 12, 2015, at 7:40 AM, Burke, Jeff <jburke at remap.ucla.edu<mailto:jburke at remap.ucla.edu>> wrote:

As long as we are talking about a logo for the NFD icon only, I much prefer this one<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0l03dtbw8vomhl9/AABsNwxhUFpqAwxROXRCdSoBa?dl=0&preview=1.png> from Alex's set.  (One could add just "NFD" or "NDN" to it if desired).

1/ I believe the logo is for "NDN platform on Android", not just NFD

Ok.  It is unclear to me why this should be branded differently than the NDN project as a whole, but I don't want to slow down the process if this is blocking something else.  Maybe it will generate something that is adapted into an NDN logo later.

It is more than just NFD, but it also shouldn't be tied specifically to android.  I wouldn't call it a platform (as this has a slightly different meaning, given we have NDN platform as a collection of NDN related software), may be just NDN stack.

I also wouldn't brand it differently, though I don't have many things to choose from.

2/ My main concern about this one (the first one from Alex's set) is this image of "core" or "center".  We'd want to promote "distributed" notion for NDN. Even for NFD, I'd view it as a muxer, not center in a device

Ok. But none of the other icons imply this clearly either – at least not for the general public.

Is something like these better?
http://www.isgtw.org/images/GridUNESP_logo.jpg
http://www.grid2010.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/opengridforumlogo.jpg
http://youthvillage.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/ubuntu-logo.jpg

Do you want to borrow aspects of Android branding or make it independent?
http://media.dunkedcdn.com/assets/prod/22884/700x0_p17s2uapu13mv116v1k151tqn197t3.png
Jeff

I'd suggest picking something that looks good as an icon (very little or no text, careful use of detail, unique looking), does not feel like it is from another era, etc.      That one is a little close to the services icon, but adding text would work for NFD, esp given NFD is a surface.

To me, the others in his set have too much detail (2, 3), feel old or are graphically of poor quality (2, 4), or have graphics that don't imply the concept (3).   The first is abstract enough but roughly fits NFD.

(If we are talking about changing the NDN logo for the project, that needs to be a longer discussion and not a hasty decision.)

Jeff

From: Nfd-dev on behalf of Lixia Zhang
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 5:17 AM
To: "bzhang at cs.arizona.edu<mailto:bzhang at cs.arizona.edu>"
Cc: "nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu<mailto:nfd-dev at lists.cs.ucla.edu>"
Subject: Re: [Nfd-dev] NDN/NFD for Android

On Aug 12, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Beichuan Zhang <bzhang at cs.arizona.edu<mailto:bzhang at cs.arizona.edu>> wrote:

On Aug 12, 2015, at 12:13 AM, Eric Newberry <enewberry at email.arizona.edu<mailto:enewberry at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:

The first one is a good logo. However, I agree with Wentao that it looks too generic.

add a letter “N” to the center of the first logo?

or add NDN to the center

but my problem is: what dos the graph mean?

As such, I prefer the second or fourth logos, as they have "NDN" in them and show that it is a networking system. I think the third one is too "busy" for an app logo.

Eric

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The University of Arizona
Vice President, University of Arizona ACM Student Chapter

On 8/11/2015 11:36 PM, Wentao Shang wrote:

On Aug 11, 2015, at 11:30 PM, Alex Afanasyev <alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu><mailto:alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu> wrote:

Hi everybody,

A small issue has been (mentally) stopping me to make the NFD app more easily available in binary form (e.g., google market): we don't have any logo that I can use for the app icon.

In the past we had a few attempts to come up with a general logo for NDN and a few people, include Xiaoke, drafted some basic logo for NFD.  I would like to unblock myself with the choice of some logo, here are the options I have right now:  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0l03dtbw8vomhl9/AABsNwxhUFpqAwxROXRCdSoBa?dl=0

I'm leaning towards the first one (1.png).  Can you give your opinion, so I can select something.

I prefer the first one, too, although it looks like a generic system control center without NFD-specific characteristics.

Another thing to keep in mind is that the logo for NDN is not necessarily the same as the one for NFD. (Usually they shouldn’t be the same.)

Wentao

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If someone has a suggestion for a better picture, I would be very happy to use it (either right away or in later updates)

Thanks,
Alex

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