another logo possibility

[kborne at gmu.edu]

Here is my submission, in keeping with Roy's suggestions.
(Pardon the copyright notice at the bottom -- that is the
graphic design site that I used.)

- Kirk


> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:22:53 -0800
> From: Roy Williams <roy at cacr.caltech.edu>
> To: Rob Seaman <seaman at noao.edu>
> CC: IVOA List VOEvent <voevent at ivoa.net>
> Subject: Re: another logo possibility
> 
> Rob
> 
> I'm sorry, I really don't like this sun/moon/hand thing. I know it comes 
> from the Chaco canyon petroglyph, and that is a beautiful story of the 
> year 1054. But taken out of the context of petroglyph, we lose all that. 
> VOEvents do not occur on the moon, and they are not created by human 
> hands. So it is an inside joke.
> 
> I am also not so keen on the <XML/> symbolism, it seems to me we should 
> not be exposing XML syntax, but rather hiding it.
> 
> I think the right logo is a simple simple thing, just an explosion and 
> the word VOEvent, like the Tycho supernova.
> 
> Roy

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Dr. Kirk D. Borne
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and George Mason University, Associate Research Professor, College of Science
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