comradekingu
Glowing ember
The task to design a logo is very much, as i understand, a community effort based on what the community wants and needs. So your best bet is to make a guess, and then consult the audience based on that guess. Since for the most part nobody knows till they see it, its mostly a road of guesswork and craftmanship with no finality in sight unless you are looking directly at it. Apart from that, ideas beyond this, from the ones who do know, are mostly the ones who have ideas different enough to produce a whole range of results. We are as critics, makers and in between, only qualified in our ability to learn, I like that environment.
Its not about who wins, nor so much how, but foremost about the opinion of the community. Making a logo of your own liking is easy in comparison, you are at your own disposal, and you like what you like. The opinion of one person is just like that, a subjective truth. If nothing more is known, and there isn't a constructive process back and forth, then that is just random.
The same is true for a community approach, but given what the scope is, doesn't it matter what the community has to say about it also in the manner i described?
With votes I can learn from feedback. Instead of guessing, much the same way I assume ED did/does, If I learn something about perceived aesthetics and ED gets more data to make his decision based on, also casting light on his sampling, aren't we both better off? Maybe I just want to believe it has the answers, maybe I don't. If anything it doesn't hurt, the majority is the same people who would make up a silent majority. It just bums people out less if they can be a number, big or small. In the best kind of vote, each voter represent an increasingly small deviation on the whole, and people can agree no matter what the results are.
On a personal level not only do i want to learn, I want at the very least something to vote for that I can understand, after that its out of my hands, an even playing field where everyones opinion is respected in that it's represented somehow.
TL;DR The input of a singular person is a game of chance in the bigger picture. With respect to the latter, the feedback of a singular person is the same. Apply one to the other, and its still a game of luck that nobody knows the odds to. If we understand where the foundation lies, its only a matter of sampling it till we can have a accumulated second hand reconstructed account of how to approach the answer. The rest is only doing the work.
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