Pandora Logo?

[jmetal88]

P&|A

I love it.

 

[Vorporeal]

p&|a would be amazing if it was engraved (the inverted embossing that someone was talking about earlier but couldn't think of the word for) on the outside of the top half. printing it on in a different color would work too. i think we all want it to appear on there somewhere.

 

[cappuchok]

Detailed explanation: (& = logical AND operator, | = logical OR operator). Most programming languages use these.
As in many languages copy these operators straight from C, where &, |, ~ and ^ are bitwise operators (and, or, not, xor), while &&, || and ! are logical (and, or, not). p&|a is invalid syntax, as there's no operand between the two operators, but a cute way to write pandora.

That's an even better explanation. I forgot that a single & or | isn't a logical operator, thanks for clearing that up (been almost a decade since I wrote anything in C).

 

[dabomb3627]

Detailed explanation: (& = logical AND operator, | = logical OR operator). Most programming languages use these.
As in many languages copy these operators straight from C, where &, |, ~ and ^ are bitwise operators (and, or, not, xor), while &&, || and ! are logical (and, or, not). p&|a is invalid syntax, as there's no operand between the two operators, but a cute way to write pandora.

i knew it!

 

[StealthBagel]

jesus christ stop it. No one buying a professional product wants to see such ridiculous things on their consumer electronics' cases.... they'd think some insane graphic designer, drunk with power or rum, mashed random keys before mass production and no one caught the error. You might as well just write Pandora in wingdings for how well it will come across to regular consumers.

 

[Squidge]

jesus christ stop it. No one buying a professional product wants to see such ridiculous things on their consumer electronics' cases.... they'd think some insane graphic designer, drunk with power or rum, mashed random keys before mass production and no one caught the error. You might as well just write Pandora in wingdings for how well it will come across to regular consumers.

Your just being negative

 

[kanzlr]

jesus christ stop it. No one buying a professional product wants to see such ridiculous things on their consumer electronics' cases.... they'd think some insane graphic designer, drunk with power or rum, mashed random keys before mass production and no one caught the error. You might as well just write Pandora in wingdings for how well it will come across to regular consumers.

seconded
maybe it has something to do with me feeling insulted if someone thinks i'm a geek :rolleyes:

 

[Clad]

Well, buying the Pandora sort of make you a geek anyway, you can't do much about that.

That being said, I don't like the p&|a idea myself.

 

[Nova]

jesus christ stop it. No one buying a professional product wants to see such ridiculous things on their consumer electronics' cases.... they'd think some insane graphic designer, drunk with power or rum, mashed random keys before mass production and no one caught the error. You might as well just write Pandora in wingdings for how well it will come across to regular consumers.

seconded
maybe it has something to do with me feeling insulted if someone thinks i'm a geek :rolleyes:

Thirded, I think it's a fucking retarded idea.

 

[xcen]

P&|A really rocks.

WTF, how is being geek insulting? May you need to assume yourself more =P

As for L33T: 17'5 n07 d34d, pwnd!1

Seriously, using ONLY P&|A is probably not the 'best' idea... although, as it is the case for the GP2X, I don't see how this device would appeal to non tech savyy (avoiding the term geek as to not inslt certain people here haha) people... so who cares really.

Point is, I think we definitely need a box shaped logo, which could have P&|A beneath it...

Just put a friggin' "Why P&|A?" FAQ on the homepage =P

I'll check in with my graphic designers to see if I can concretize something cool =)

EDIT: as for a Tag Line... I was toying with the idea 'Open Box'.... or 'Open Box : Open Source' ya know... bridging the ideas of the pandora box being open as in mythical greece open, as well as in open source open =)

 

[atomicthumbs]

P&|A +1

 

[Peter R]

while(not_official())
P&|A += 1;

 

[rokdcasbah]

we're talking logos right? p&|a would be more of a type treatment, although it's quite cool.

 

[_VWV_]

Well, I would like to offer something. It's no a logo (i don't think this can easily be printed on plastic), but it looks interesting.. might be helpful for advertisement or something.. I've found this picture on a German site. I don't speak German so I have no idea whether we can freely use this picture.

http://www.ordix.de/ORDIXNews/1_2004/tux_box.jpg

 

[Alex.]

@rokdcasbah: I really like the second one, and I think it would also look great in solid colour. Very creative

 

[Shiny]

jesus christ stop it. No one buying a professional product wants to see such ridiculous things on their consumer electronics' cases.... they'd think some insane graphic designer, drunk with power or rum, mashed random keys before mass production and no one caught the error. You might as well just write Pandora in wingdings for how well it will come across to regular consumers.

seconded
maybe it has something to do with me feeling insulted if someone thinks i'm a geek :rolleyes:

Thirded, I think it's a fucking retarded idea.

Fourth'd.

 

[Goity]

 

[LevelPlane]

@rokdcasbah: I really like the second one, and I think it would also look great in solid colour. Very creative

Agreed.


So if this logo is going to be a box-shape. It will make Pandora feel like Pandora's box and the user feel like Pandora.

 

[Clad]

Don't you think being logo-less, at least on the case, would be better ? or at least a removable sticker for those of us who prefer plain virgin looks.

 

[rokdcasbah]

i dunno about case design, but i'm sure they're gonna want some sort of logo, as well as a type treatment, for marketing and such.

for the name, i was doing lucida bright, lowercase, with tight spacing between the letters, and though it looked cool. will post later.

the reason i did a gradient on the second one was because there's nothing there, so i'm not sure how i would draw the other side...it's just empty. it works when the rest of the box is there (see #3), but without it, you end up having to draw "nothing". but i will see what i can do.