Guess the next "X"...
...and win a prize!
When OS X first came out, the logo/packaging that accompanied it was blue and looked like candy and seemed to sit well with where Apple was at the time (the colored, curvy iStuff). That big blue X set a tone and defined a "look" (for Apple AND quite a few others) for several years.
Then came Jaguar. Uh, yeah. The spotted coat. Ties in with the animal (so much so, in fact, that I would've bet a lung that the Panther "X" would be covered in black fur).
So as we all know, we're on to Panther now and it's cool, bold/blocky "aluminated" X, calling to mind the Finder, Safari, the G5, PowerBooks and the iSight.
They've all looked cool. They've all sparked a small revolution in desktops at macdesktops.com (go look if you don't believe me).
So a year from now, when Panther 10.3 is old hat and "been there, done that...now what, Apple?", we'll all be gearing up for 10.4 (Calico? Lion? Roy's Tiger?), what do you imagine the look for it being? I'm curious to see what others think, this far out. Remember how absolutely cool it was to see that big blue gel-like "X" for the first time? I thought it was GORGEOUS and would sit and study it for minutes at a time. Just when we were getting sick of it, here comes Jaguar.
"FUR?!?! Are you KIDDING me?"
But we came to dig it, of course. And when we all thought "okay, Panther...black fur", they TOTALLY go in another direction. We zig, Apple zags. Very cool. So, any guesses? A year from now, what's going to be on Apple's front page and promo material, hyping 10.4?
I shall go on record and say this: it'll be a script or handwritten treatment. And it'll have some sort of texture or surface to it that NO ONE will have predicted or expected. It might even tie in with a cool, hallmark technology or feature slated for 10.4. I'm thinking that perhaps this handwritten/Inkwell thing will be a centerpiece of of 10.4, hence the scrawled "X" (see, I put some thought behind it)
We've had a plastic serif. We've had a fur-covered serif. We've had a heavy-duty slab face. I say we have a ink-laced script/handwritten "X" next time out...
Someone tag this thread and check it out next year.
When OS X first came out, the logo/packaging that accompanied it was blue and looked like candy and seemed to sit well with where Apple was at the time (the colored, curvy iStuff). That big blue X set a tone and defined a "look" (for Apple AND quite a few others) for several years.
Then came Jaguar. Uh, yeah. The spotted coat. Ties in with the animal (so much so, in fact, that I would've bet a lung that the Panther "X" would be covered in black fur).
So as we all know, we're on to Panther now and it's cool, bold/blocky "aluminated" X, calling to mind the Finder, Safari, the G5, PowerBooks and the iSight.
They've all looked cool. They've all sparked a small revolution in desktops at macdesktops.com (go look if you don't believe me).
So a year from now, when Panther 10.3 is old hat and "been there, done that...now what, Apple?", we'll all be gearing up for 10.4 (Calico? Lion? Roy's Tiger?), what do you imagine the look for it being? I'm curious to see what others think, this far out. Remember how absolutely cool it was to see that big blue gel-like "X" for the first time? I thought it was GORGEOUS and would sit and study it for minutes at a time. Just when we were getting sick of it, here comes Jaguar.
"FUR?!?! Are you KIDDING me?"
But we came to dig it, of course. And when we all thought "okay, Panther...black fur", they TOTALLY go in another direction. We zig, Apple zags. Very cool. So, any guesses? A year from now, what's going to be on Apple's front page and promo material, hyping 10.4?
I shall go on record and say this: it'll be a script or handwritten treatment. And it'll have some sort of texture or surface to it that NO ONE will have predicted or expected. It might even tie in with a cool, hallmark technology or feature slated for 10.4. I'm thinking that perhaps this handwritten/Inkwell thing will be a centerpiece of of 10.4, hence the scrawled "X" (see, I put some thought behind it)
We've had a plastic serif. We've had a fur-covered serif. We've had a heavy-duty slab face. I say we have a ink-laced script/handwritten "X" next time out...
Someone tag this thread and check it out next year.
Comments
Originally posted by iPeon
Ice
That's what I think, something that is very glassy or ice-like
maybe it'll be Y
OS XI would have to be codenamed Tufnel
Originally posted by Eugene
Originally posted by pscates
What font is that?
I just grabbed something quick from the already-on system fonts in my Illustrator menu.