Comments on: DRM-free label for all your DRM-free stuff http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 23:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: TheOven http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1686108 TheOven Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:17:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1686108 Please see my comment above. In my opinion you should put the text in a green circle to get the point across. It's simpler and an already understood semiotic. Here's an example of Ontario's Driver's handbook for an example: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section3.1.1.shtml Please see my comment above. In my opinion you should put the text in a green circle to get the point across. It’s simpler and an already understood semiotic.

Here’s an example of Ontario’s Driver’s handbook for an example: http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/dandv/driver/handbook/section3.1.1.shtml

]]> By: TheOven http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1686104 TheOven Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1686104  Yeah. It should be in a green circle since they seem to be riffing off the  iconography of the NO symbol. (crossed out circle)  Yeah. It should be in a green circle since they seem to be riffing off the  iconography of the NO symbol. (crossed out circle)

]]> By: oasisob1 http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685888 oasisob1 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 18:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685888 I'd love to see a version of this logo that prints 'VOID' when printed out or is run through a copier. DRM on the DRM Free logo! I’d love to see a version of this logo that prints ‘VOID’ when printed out or is run through a copier. DRM on the DRM Free logo!

]]> By: evilpeacock http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685559 evilpeacock Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685559 As the designer I would like to note that the design is intended to play off of or even mock the cliche "anti-DRM" iconography that is already common. The slash being removed isn't going to be completely obvious to everyone at the first glance but after creating and reviewing varied alternate designs we all felt that this was the most simple and flexible design. To me the very issue of DRM labeling is countered by the existence of this logo. We could always just write out "DRM-free" and call it a day as some have been doing for years, but having a standardized logo is another way to keep the DRM conversation pointed in the right direction. This logo needed to be simple and timeless while also being symbolic while still having a subtle — or not so subtle — shout-out to the cliche red anti-slash graphic. My thanks to the Free Software Foundation for approaching me and asking me to do this based on a comment I made on the original logo design over a year ago. They were also gracious enough to go through a multi-round logo process with lots of options, rational and exploration as I would do with any paying client. It's also appropriate that I listened to a lot of Girl Talk while making this happen. As the designer I would like to note that the design is intended to play off of or even mock the cliche “anti-DRM” iconography that is already common.

The slash being removed isn’t going to be completely obvious to everyone at the first glance but after creating and reviewing varied alternate designs we all felt that this was the most simple and flexible design.

To me the very issue of DRM labeling is countered by the existence of this logo. We could always just write out “DRM-free” and call it a day as some have been doing for years, but having a standardized logo is another way to keep the DRM conversation pointed in the right direction.

This logo needed to be simple and timeless while also being symbolic while still having a subtle — or not so subtle — shout-out to the cliche red anti-slash graphic.

My thanks to the Free Software Foundation for approaching me and asking me to do this based on a comment I made on the original logo design over a year ago. They were also gracious enough to go through a multi-round logo process with lots of options, rational and exploration as I would do with any paying client.

It’s also appropriate that I listened to a lot of Girl Talk while making this happen.

]]> By: beejamin http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685262 beejamin Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:35:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685262 Is a BY license appropriate here? If I use the logo on my DRM-free product, I also have to include a credit for it somewhere in it?  Is a BY license appropriate here? If I use the logo on my DRM-free product, I also have to include a credit for it somewhere in it? 

]]> By: Bruno Bord http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685227 Bruno Bord Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685227 Am I the only one to think that there should be a big-red-ugly label for DRMized files, and leave the DRM-Free products as "the norm". Every time I'm taking a picture that I'm uploading on the web, every time I'm pushing *anything* on the Internet, "DRM-free" is by-default. DRM-included are result of a process. And this process should be labeled on the product. Am I the only one to think that there should be a big-red-ugly label for DRMized files, and leave the DRM-Free products as “the norm”. Every time I’m taking a picture that I’m uploading on the web, every time I’m pushing *anything* on the Internet, “DRM-free” is by-default.

DRM-included are result of a process. And this process should be labeled on the product.

]]> By: R S http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685211 R S Fri, 22 Mar 2013 06:47:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685211 I doubt this graphic will propagate if for no other reason that it has a double-negative that just automatically makes one cringe. I doubt this graphic will propagate if for no other reason that it has a double-negative that just automatically makes one cringe.

]]> By: a_w_young http://boingboing.net/2013/03/21/drm-free-label-for-all-your-dr.html#comment-1685200 a_w_young Fri, 22 Mar 2013 05:28:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=220163#comment-1685200 Nice. The more freedom is pushed into mainstream commerce, the more the population at large will treat it with the respect and admiration it deserves. Nice. The more freedom is pushed into mainstream commerce, the more the population at large will treat it with the respect and admiration it deserves.

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