Re: author of PostgreSQL logo

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:47 PM, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
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>> On 19 Apr 2016, at 21:18, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> > On 19 Apr 2016, at 20:00, Oleg Bartunov <obartunov(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> >> I found on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pg_logo.png, that
>> >> author is Jeff MacDonald, but actually, it was Daniel Lundin, who
>> used logo by Dmitry Samersoff (slonik.gif, elephant in diamond) and made
>> logo for postgresql.inc. Jeff made 'powered by" with Daniel's elphant. I
>> specially checked archives and wayback machine to refresh my memory.
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>> http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/obartunov/24248903/38652/38652_original.png
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>> >> Should we bother about this ?
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>> > Probably a good idea to get that fixed. It shouldn't take huge effort,
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>> > can find someone with permissions to make the change. :)
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>> This seems to be the blog for the correct Daniel Lundin too, if you want
>> to ping him first to confirm. :)
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>> http://www.eintr.org
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>> It has email, twitter, GitHub info on there for him.
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> Will ask.
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Daniel confirm, that he is author of this logo and that he used "elephant
in diamond" by Dmitry Samersoff, so I edited information on wikipedia and
corrected several broken links to pgfoundry.

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Daniel Lundin <dln(at)eintr(dot)org> wrote:
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>> Haha, yeah that was indeed my doing, waaaaay back when. :)
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> Great, you remember :) Do you use "elephant in diamond" as starter ?

Oh man, I think so yeah. IIRC used it for inspiration, then sketched
up the vectorized one in illustrator as best I could manage.

Cheers,
-d

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>> Regards and best wishes,
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>> Justin Clift
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>> "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those
>> who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the
>> first group; there was less competition there."
>> - Indira Gandhi
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