Ubuntu logo/Mandelbrot set separated at birth?

[Scott James Remnant]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:26 +0200, Myriam Rita Schweingruber wrote:

> Am Montag, 11. September 2006 13:13 schrieb Eamonn Sullivan:
> > This is just a random thought and may be old news, but is the
> > similarity between Ubuntu's logo and the Mandelbrot set [1] a
> > coincidence or by design? I could imagine a connection between the
> > ideas of "order through chaos" and the free software movement being on
> > purpose, but that may be just me reaching a bit....
> 
> I think, the logo derives from the original 3-people ring [0] which was on the 
> cover of the first Ubuntu release. But to be sure we should ask Mark or Jeff 
> Waugh who seem to be those who created the logo. 
> 
Actually, the logo was created by a South African design company called
ImageNation (or something like that);  they also did the original CD
artwork, etc.  The "three people" was a feature of the logo from the
start.

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
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