1. Create Blender Character/Mascot eg Suzanne – with 3 orange dreadlocks – like Blender logo for hair.

2. Create high quality short story around this character – perhaps explaining the Coming of Age of Blender/Suzanne.

3. Distribute as BBB and Durian, contact all companies listed in sightings above, and actively encourage the re-use of this story for demonstrations.

WATCH for sightings where Blender character/mascot/logo to be seen in demos (as above) – advertising Blender not just a big bunny.

AND / OR:

Use a small version of the blender logo in the 2.5 GUI as icon button for click changing between views/modes/modules… so any demo will show the Blender logo in it – regardless of the media content eg video/animation/models.

This way the Blender logo becomes synonymous with what Blender does – the blending of amazing features.

And hopefully – lots of sightings are everywhere.

And lastly, it's a nice way to 'put the icing on the cake' of 2.5.

Afterall, if some on cgtalk have their way, Blender may end up being customised to look like Maya/Max/XSI/etc.

It's been said that a successful install of Maya in a studio means it won't look anything like Maya once customised.

But wouldn't it be cool to use the Blender logo as a unique, useful, and powerfully recognisable logo in Blender's 2.5 interface regardless of how the user customises the interface?

Just my 2 cents.

I thought the same thing. Plus, as somebody who's actually used Blender under Parallels (don't ask why) I couldn't help but remember what a nightmare hotkeys were… Definitely not a good example of a reason to use Parallels. Still, cool to see Blender (and the Apricot splash screen) make an appearance.