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Daniel, that is beautiful work, thank you. I have shown it to Otto Greenslade, the lead visual designer at Canonical, and we have a few comments.
First, the Dash applications lens icon on the bag is vivid, and has a 3-D inset appearance. This doesn't really match the idea that a bag would be made of thin material. (And USC lets you install things that aren't applications.) I don't think using an Ubuntu logo on the bag would be "confusing" as Jeremy suggested. The only issue (which may be positive or negative) is that it's quite common:
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Next, as far as I know, the four places where this icon will be seen most often are, in order:
(a) the Unity launcher, against a background that averages the colors used in the icon (bug 838050);
(b) the Dash, against a background that is some greyish color, by default greyish-purple;
(c) developer.
(d) "Get this on Ubuntu" or similar buttons on software vendor Web sites, against a background yet to be decided (possibly black).
So the second issue to tackle is that we can't tell whether the icon fixes *this* bug without testing it against (a) whatever orange tint the Unity launcher generates for it. There's more of a difference with your icon as it is <http://
Third, rotating the bag to face straight on does make the icon more distinct at small sizes. However, it also makes the icon look less like a shopping bag at any size (it could just as easily be a suitcase or satchel). And it also means the white sparkles would disappear completely against (c) a white background, because none of the inside of the bag is visible to act as a backdrop for them. So, maybe we should use the straight-on perspective only for the smallest sizes, and keep the angle for larger sizes?