A new logo for coreylib, an open-source PHP library
a logo project by aaroncollegeman

Brief updates

7-Sep-09 8:17 p.m. GMT

We're getting a lot of submissions that use the color palette of our existing logo and Web site. This is not preferred. Please try to be creative in your color choices. We're not look for rainbows here, but departures from the current palette of orange and blue are acceptable. (We are personally partial to blues, but are will to entertain almost anything with respect to tasteful choices in color.)

Please submit all designs on white - including both the two- and four-color proposals.

Please emphasize the symbol in the logo over the text. Remember: we're looking for an image we can use to brand the library. The name is important, but not as much as the image.

A little bit more about what coreylib is. For one thing, the "lib" in "coreylib" is short for "library," but is _not_ "library" in the traditional sense of a place where you go to borrow books. Instead, it is "library" in the sense that it is some code that a programmer can use within his own application.

In the case of coreylib, our library makes it possible for a programmer to access a bunch of information - like Tweets from Twitter, photos from Flickr, and books from Amazon - and transform that information into something that serves his application's purpose.

There are three things that coreylib does really well:

1. It reduces the learning curve associated with accessing Twitter, Flickr, Amazon, and other services in the process of adding information from those services into one's own products.

2. It is a unified approach to doing #1. In other words, you learn to do things the coreylib way, and once you've learned this approach, you don't have to learn a new programming pattern for the next project.

3. coreylib makes it really easy to combine information from multiple sources into a single source, and then sort that mix of information by date. To our knowledge, coreylib is the only Web service library that has this feature.

Good luck to all the Creatives!

8-Sep-09 2:23 a.m. GMT

Doing some more thinking about the Panda. We would welcome submissions that retained the Panda theme. But instead of the whole body, we'd love to see a Panda, face-forward, just the head, with a big smile, some bamboo hanging out of its mouth, and a bit of the Asian-persuasion in its eyes. Try that one on for size.

Also, we like the idea of using a heavier font weight on the "lib" in "coreylib" to make it stand out. The name of the project is given to the guy who came up with the idea, sponsored its development, and promotes the heck out of it everywhere he goes. But emphasis on the use of it belongs to the word "lib".