MT (the real) has updated WordPress.org/about/buttons with official WordPress logos in pngs and vector image formats.

WordPress Logos and WordPress Buttons

There are also WordPress desktop wall paper in various official colors and sizes. The official WordPress colors are given in a variety of code systems. Pantone 7468 anyone?

Fan Art

The fan art page could use some fresh contributions.

These naturalized WordPress logos would be nice additions:

WordPress India Independence Logo by Allan Fernandes

One or more of the WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul. My favorite are the one’s with the flower for the O:

WordPress Malaysia Independence Logos by Avijit Paul

I love the WordCamp Philippines logo:

WordCamp Philippines Logo by Andrew Dela Serna

What is your favorite WordPress art?

Lorelle’s category icons are brilliant. For example, she uses this image for WordPress News:

Anyone know the creator of this popular images?

Same day correction: previously the article suggested the font is Dante, but both Matts have come to my rescue. It used to be the WordPress logo font. When Jason Santa Maria designed the new logo a few years ago, he chose the lovely Mrs. Eaves.

Adam Freetly identified the creator of the “lens flare” logo as being Dan Philibin.

WordPress "Lens Flare" Logo by Dan Philibin

March 7th, 2010 update: I asked Matt Thomas what font is used on the “W” logo. “It does appear that Jason Santa Maria used Dante for the “W” logo. It’s clearly been heavily modified; no shipping version of Dante has the vertical proportions that our logo does. But yep — when they created the new logo, they kept a little vestige of Dante around. Maybe it’s a good luck charm. ”

I’ve tried it on my iPod Touch. They’ve done a great job! And are urgently working on fixing the worse bugs.

It’s already in the top 50 free apps.

Development has been managed by Raanan Bar-Cohen and the app is designed by Matt Thomas.

WordPress for iPhone has the clean Matt aesthetic, though I expect the iPhone SDK probably doesn’t allow much deviation from clean simplicity.

There is quite some stink up about whether or not we are breaking Apple’s iPhone development NDA by our application being open source, and speculation that Apple will sue us.

John Brownlee of BoingBoing Gadgets writes:

I was curious about the “Open Source” proclamation at the top of its non-App-Store webpage.

WordPress for iPhone is in the App Store. WordPress for iPhone’s Application Description has always stated it’s open source. Someone at Apple approved “WordPress for iPhone Open Source”.

Although it makes for a great story and gives us freetards reason to bang our chests, my thought is Apple has it’s anti-open source clause in the agreement to cover their butts from their code being “poisoned” by a viral license. Butt covered, let the open source applications flow, but no squirting.

Now, I’m taking another look. Why? Because of the WordPress Prologue Theme.

If you haven’t heard about Prologue, it’s WordPress theme that people are calling a twitter for groups, created by the Automattic team: Matt, Joseph, and MT. It is available on WordPress.com or you can download it for your own WordPress install.

I’ll admit I thought it was a lot of excitement over nothing, but my nay saying didn’t diminish Matt’s enthusiasm. Then he announced Prologue, and everyone was really excited about it! The titles of the articles are quite telling, here are a few:

• Twitter – Public Timeline = Prologue
• WordPress’s Prologue: part Twitter, part Basecamp, all business
• Prologue: Twitter for WordPress for Groups
• Will Prologue bring the Twitters back?
• Prologue/WordPress–Private Twitter II

Still I didn’t get it, until I really started to use it. Now, after using it these last couple of months did, I couldn’t live without our private Prologue for sharing with the Automattic team and even more important keeping up with what they are working on and ideas they are playing with. As MT describes it:

Prologue was designed for something different—easily setting up and sharing a dialogue within a fixed group. It puts aside the standard “behind the scenes” method of blogging and makes the act of posting part of the experience. It creates a kind of archived and searchable conversation, like an IM window that’s archived, taggable, and accessible from any web browser.

Every team or group needs a prologue to share tidbits of what you are working on, without the pressure. Is there a similar tool you use?

This is why I’m now turning to Twitter and family to see what use I can make of them.

He has long done much of the design work on WordPress.org, WordPress.com, and the sites for most of our other projects.

Over the couple of weeks, I’ve noticed a large number of image and CSS WordPress development tickets (with fixes!) from iammattthomas. I don’t remember him being so involved in a release previously, so I asked him:

I’d never so much as submitted a ticket before Feb. 18. But I knew it was going to take a lot of OCD-level tweaking to get the admin to match as perfectly as possible the Happy Cog designs, so I jumped in. The only downside of that is now I’m simultaneously redesigning WordPress.org while constantly writing patches for the admin UI.

MT has great taste, is fun to work with, and is a wonderful person. I’m so happy he’s on my team!