Re: what with the logo

[Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>]

'rick' wrote: 
> 
> > what is it with the crappy logo of the bull and egg, i mean, really,
> > the GCC home page is embarrassing to say the least in a design sense
 
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 11:39:53AM +0100, Rupert Wood wrote:
> :-p Well, I quite like it. I think the logo is simple, effective and cleanly
> done. It's a cut above a lot of logos you see on the internet. The egg is a
> reference to the egcs project in GCC's history.
> 
> Similarly the site: it's simple, effective and usable. What's your
> complaint? Did you have a problem finding some information you needed?
> 
> And you're on very dangerous ground: IIRC the logo was drawn by somebody
> important's wife.

David Miller's wife Nina created the egcs (which some people pronounced
"eggs" for short) logo.  I suggested the design:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1998-10/msg00664.html

and, as you can see from the message, you can blame me for it being a JPEG
as well. :-)