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Mariano comments on "MO Poster" (3256)

Mariano — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:39:58 -0800

I had imagined something catchy, to attract attention.

I've always loved the work the Fedora Marketing people do. See, for example, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MarketingCollateral#Posters (They even have a cube!)

Maybe someone knows someone who's good at designing, that can come up with a simple design, with a small catchy phrase describing what MO is and which looks nice. I'll see what I can do.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "MO Poster" (3253)

Anton Geraschenko — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:17:56 -0800

I designed the logo in Inkscape, so I do have an SVG version, but the SVG version isn't "clean." In particular, the missing part of the rightmost edge of the rectangle is actually a white rectangle and I never bothered to figure out how to export a tight rectangle into SVG format. To generate the logo, I use Inkscape's export a bitmap (which does export a tight rectangle) and use GIMP to replace the white rectangle by transparent pixels and export a fairly small PNG with little extraneous information. It's not a great procedure, but it's not like I have to do it very often.

If there's a good reason to make a nice clean SVG version available, I can put it a bit of time to figure out how to do it.

Harry Gindi comments on "MO Poster" (3250)

Harry Gindi — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:33:55 -0800

@Anton: You don't have any sort of SVG version?

Anton Geraschenko comments on "MO Poster" (3248)

Anton Geraschenko — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:08:47 -0800

I have some small stickers, but it sounds like you want something larger (and it might be a pain to get the stickers to you). What kind of a poster did you have in mind?

Have a look at http://mathoverflow.net/logo. There's a link to a high-resolution version of the logo. You're welcome to use it to make any kind of goodies you like. You can even sell MO goodies you make, so long as you don't generate much of a profit.

Mariano comments on "MO Poster" (3247)

Mariano — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:00:08 -0800

Is there a MO Poster or something I could hang on my office door? I'm organizing an algebra school later this year mainly addressed at graduate students and having a nice, colorful poster would help in evangelising...