One symbol to rule them all

[optictopic]

If you go to the bottom of the thrivemovement page linked below there is a really cool interactive navigation setup. http://www.thrivemovement.com/get-informed
The buttons slowly rotate inside a torus shape and the labels can be easily read.
What if we took your designs and put them on a buckyball with hexagonal sides like this,

I think that could make for an awesome navigation interface!

[Safety1st]

“I really liked your design” @happybeing, " Keep it simple" @000, “IMO your design is perfect” @BIGbtc.

I understand your reservations and encourage you to improve on your design if necessary. All I ask is that you mostly cater to the Maidsafe audience, the " privacy sensitive people" and not to the critics who will not value privacy until it is too late to reverse the damage done due to a lack of it.

[BIGbtc]

@Safe

All I ask is that you mostly cater to the Maidsafe audience, t

The Maidsafe audience is thin … the theater is virtually empty, they’re in the audience over at the ethereum, storj and bitcoin theaters. The marquee of MAID must efficiently and effectively cater to the uninitiated.

[Safety1st]

I understand your point and enjoyed your empty theater analogy. But, considering the long standing nature of icons/symbols/logos which typically only change slightly over a long period of time once initially established, isn’t there other ways to market to the fickle and uninitiated without compromising the message of our core values as illustrated in whatever icon/symbol/logo we choose?

Edit: You know what, as long as the network provide true privacy as advertised and we have mass adoption, we will all be happy here right? Please excuse my idealistic rant.

[nowfeelsafer]

@Safe

I understand your reservations and encourage you to improve on your design if necessary. All I ask is that you mostly cater to the Maidsafe audience, the " privacy sensitive people" and not to the critics who will not value privacy until it is too late to reverse the damage done due to a lack of it.

I agree that trying to please everyone can be counter productive when establishing an identity. I am still not clear on how to use the keyhole, as it is a bit redundant with the heaxagonal blue contour acting as a frontier between honeycombs.

@happybeing

a matrix of people holding hands but also connected by proximity of feet with shoulders (perhaps), and how this pattern might be another basis for the honeycomb matrix

Humans instead of boxes is a powerful proposition: the structure emerges from individuals, and is made of people, and then that also solves the problem I had of loosing the individuality vs the collective.

@BIGbtc

1. The round section of center part becomes a globe - 2. The center part becomes a person with the keyhole outer layer denoting an encryption tunnel3. The shape as-is could be maintained across all segments of SAFE but color, texture, theme, would all change depending on where the logo is used

I would like as much as possible to keep the number of elements in the logo rather low, so that it can be identifiable down to a 16x16 pixel size. As big as an app icon, but also as a (safe)browser favicon. I agree that including the idea of encryption as you suggested is important.

@optictopic

What if we took your designs and put them on a buckyball with hexagonal sides like this,

Your link and the picture made me think about the following: the network as structure is never visible in its entirety. What you have is mere humans with “a point of view” on the network. When one individual looks at it from his perspective, what he sees is his own data. If he takes another point of view, the network loses all meaning to him. Two individals standing next to each other can indeed “share” a similar -not identical- view on the network ( = they “share” some of their files to each others), but ultimately, who I am and where I stand is the only key to my safe. In addition, nobody has an overarching, embracing view of the network (except maybe in beta ).

An optical illusion is a good vector at conveying this idea that meaning arises and is undone depending of the position of the observer.

But I am not sure if I can transcribe these good ideas myself so your contributions will be very helpful !