On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

Jos Poortvliet - 14:00 18.05.12 wrote:

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Andi has made a (for now) final version of the poster. It is in Github - for anyone who thinks he/she can improve it further :D

Link to a small render: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20600dpi%20.5cm%20bleed.png

Got some feedback:

a) Gentoo logo doesn't fit that well with the rest, it's too plastic/3D.   On artwork page is a plain variant, but actually I think what you did in   mockup made it fit more. We can maybe use Larry the cow, which would        fit, but some people might not get it.

b) if it is meant as a general poster to promote whole conference, it   shouldn't say in big letters openSUSE conference

that is because having the conferences together does not have a common theme. It would have been wiser to talk to these other committees about their ideas on their own conferences. Putting these logos together might probably not do justice to the other group's intentions and ideas about their own conferences. Hopefully they understand what we tried to do. However, if changes are needed, we can make them. Andy (anditosan)

btw. Here is the svg version of LinuxDays logo: http://cloud.hrusecky.net/public.php?service=files&token=52e440c27997dce7f22e24fb2411c73db7d564c8&file=/logo-final.svg

Fonts are from http://iotic.com/averia/

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

andi robert - 8:17 18.05.12 wrote:

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

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Jos Poortvliet - 14:00 18.05.12 wrote:

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Andi has made a (for now) final version of the poster. It is in Github - for anyone who thinks he/she can improve it further :D

Link to a small render: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20600dpi%20.5cm%20bleed.png

Got some feedback:

a) Gentoo logo doesn't fit that well with the rest, it's too plastic/3D.   On artwork page is a plain variant, but actually I think what you did in   mockup made it fit more. We can maybe use Larry the cow, which would        fit, but some people might not get it.

b) if it is meant as a general poster to promote whole conference, it   shouldn't say in big letters openSUSE conference

that is because having the conferences together does not have a common theme. It would have been wiser to talk to these other committees about their ideas on their own conferences. Putting these logos together might probably not do justice to the other group's intentions and ideas about their own conferences. Hopefully they understand what we tried to do. However, if changes are needed, we can make them.

So far they like the idea, with two minor points I pointed out on top. The idea behind the poster is great and nobody spoke against it. The thing they didn't like is that the text is openSUSE specific, so they can't use it without change for their promotion as well, so what's the point in having common poster than. If openSUSE Conference text wouldn't be the main theme and maybe even dates would get a little bit adjusted to refer to the part we have all in common... We can have extended dates on our own poster - the other one with just geeko. Or write common dates and mention that SUSE part is continuing...

I can try my Inkscape skills on sources, but don't believe in them much ;-)

Regarding dates, I'd propose to use the superset of the conferences, not the cross-section. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

Sent from my iPhone On May 18, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

Vojtech Pavlik - 16:36 18.05.12 wrote:

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

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andi robert - 8:17 18.05.12 wrote:

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On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 7:25 AM, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

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Jos Poortvliet - 14:00 18.05.12 wrote:

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Andi has made a (for now) final version of the poster. It is in Github - for anyone who thinks he/she can improve it further :D

Link to a small render: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20600dpi%20.5cm%20bleed.png

Got some feedback:

a) Gentoo logo doesn't fit that well with the rest, it's too plastic/3D. On artwork page is a plain variant, but actually I think what you did in mockup made it fit more. We can maybe use Larry the cow, which would fit, but some people might not get it.

b) if it is meant as a general poster to promote whole conference, it shouldn't say in big letters openSUSE conference

that is because having the conferences together does not have a common theme. It would have been wiser to talk to these other committees about their ideas on their own conferences. Putting these logos together might probably not do justice to the other group's intentions and ideas about their own conferences. Hopefully they understand what we tried to do. However, if changes are needed, we can make them.

So far they like the idea, with two minor points I pointed out on top. The idea behind the poster is great and nobody spoke against it. The thing they didn't like is that the text is openSUSE specific, so they can't use it without change for their promotion as well, so what's the point in having common poster than. If openSUSE Conference text wouldn't be the main theme and maybe even dates would get a little bit adjusted to refer to the part we have all in common... We can have extended dates on our own poster - the other one with just geeko. Or write common dates and mention that SUSE part is continuing...

I can try my Inkscape skills on sources, but don't believe in them much ;-)

Regarding dates, I'd propose to use the superset of the conferences, not the cross-section.

Ok, they complained mainly about the big openSUSE Conference title in the middle, nobody mentioned dates (yet), I just noticed and added them to the list of complains, but I'm ok with using superset.

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Hey Michael, it sounds like you are doing some artwork. U want to take it on your own to do it? If so, just make sure that you own the roghts to the back picture that u placed there. After that everything is cool. Please work on the poster and submit it to git. Propose the idea to the team and get it passed. Andy (anditosan)-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Saturday 19 May 2012 08:58:01 andi robert wrote:

Since there have been some changes to the poster idea. Please let us know what's in your minds. Also, have a clear cut message. Way, if you need us to work on something, we know what direction to go.

Basically I am asking the thread to define their request and have us work on it, if necessary.

Thanks

Andy (anditosan)

What I read from Michael are the following: - it should not say 'openSUSE Conference'. I would be happy to call the whole thing LinuxDays*, then say something like what I said before - "4 conferences, 1 location" or so. - the logo's should be made to fit I think Michal meant the logo's should be more like in my mockup, fitting the design more. - the colors are icky :D This one is hard to solve as that's the core of the idea... But it could be possible to simply try to take the exact colors Andy Warholl used in his Marilyn thing. I made a version of the SVG which incorporates these comments, albeit not exactly perfect.. Removed the gradients from the Gentoo logo to make it look less plastiky, made the SUSE Labs one fit in better (no text) and fixed the name & link on the bottom (bootstrapping-awesome.org is now there). http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20poster%20after%20feedback.png Not done: * I don't have the pretty background Anditosan used in his earlier version I used for the mockup so Anditosan will have to add that himself. * I didn't try to fix the colors. I really can't - andy and possibly michael will have to try that one :D The source is in github Better, Michal? /Jos * because LinuxDays is the most generic one AND I expect they will attract most visitors.

2012/5/21 andi robert :

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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On Saturday 19 May 2012 08:58:01 andi robert wrote:

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Since there have been some changes to the poster idea. Please let us know what's in your minds. Also, have a clear cut message. Way, if you need us to work on something, we know what direction to go.

Basically I am asking the thread to define their request and have us work on it, if necessary.

Thanks

Andy (anditosan)

What I read from Michael are the following: - it should not say 'openSUSE Conference'.

I would be happy to call the whole thing LinuxDays*, then say something like what I said before - "4 conferences, 1 location" or so.

I called it Linux days. See if it works for you. http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/?action=view¤t=Tiled_poster_final2.png

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- the logo's should be made to fit I think Michal meant the logo's should be more like in my mockup, fitting the design more.

- the colors are icky :D This one is hard to solve as that's the core of the idea... But it could be possible to simply try to take the exact colors Andy Warholl used in his Marilyn thing.

That's what I tried this time around and, to me, it still is hard to show "punch" with it. But take a look anyway.

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I made a version of the SVG which incorporates these comments, albeit not exactly perfect.. Removed the gradients from the Gentoo logo to make it look less plastiky, made the SUSE Labs one fit in better (no text) and fixed the name & link on the bottom (bootstrapping-awesome.org is now there).

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20poster%20after%20feedback.png

Working with the Gentoo logo for this poster is really hard. It does not fit the "natural" feeling that you get from the other logos. Gentoo's is a letter.

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Not done: * I don't have the pretty background Anditosan used in his earlier version I used for the mockup so Anditosan will have to add that himself. * I didn't try to fix the colors. I really can't - andy and possibly michael will have to try that one :D

The source is in github

Better, Michal?

/Jos

* because LinuxDays is the most generic one AND I expect they will attract most visitors.

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I don't mean to be disrespectfull or anything, neither my intention is to troll but isn't this poster undermine a bit the oSC? I perfectly understand the whole idea of a common poster but I would like to see 'more' openSUSE, I can't really say this happens because of that or this thing in the poster but the generall feeling I get when I see it is not what I would expect and to me it feels wrong. Unfortunatelly I have no idea to give or a suggestion to make since I am far from an artist myself so feel free and just ignore me if you like. Just my 2 cents Kostas 'Warlordfff' Koudaras -- --- \m/ --- http://opensuse.gr      http://os-el.gr http://amb.opensuse.gr   http://www.kde.gr http://warlordfff.tk --- \m/ --- me I am not I --- \m/ --- Time travel is possible, you just need to know the right aliens -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

andi robert - 22:53 20.05.12 wrote:

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Jos Poortvliet wrote:

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On Saturday 19 May 2012 08:58:01 andi robert wrote:

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Since there have been some changes to the poster idea. Please let us know what's in your minds. Also, have a clear cut message. Way, if you need us to work on something, we know what direction to go.

Basically I am asking the thread to define their request and have us work on it, if necessary.

Thanks

Andy (anditosan)

What I read from Michael are the following: - it should not say 'openSUSE Conference'.

I would be happy to call the whole thing LinuxDays*, then say something like what I said before - "4 conferences, 1 location" or so.

I called it Linux days. See if it works for you. http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/?action=view¤t=Tiled_poster_final2.png

Looks great, more contrast then previous one. One comment though, similarly as LinuxDays guys didn't liked openSUSE Conference, some of us might not like LinuxDays although the conference name is quite generic. I liked what Jos did - called it something like '4 in 1' or 'four conferences, one place', something among that lines depending on what would fit from design point of view... As for not screaming openSUSE Conference, we have transparent hover, for printed version I could imagine something like watermark (if more people think like Kostas that there is no clear openSUSE Conference reference), but I'm personally pretty fine with current state. -- Michal Hrusecky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On May 22, 12 10:59:06 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

On Monday, May 21, 2012 20:32:35 Michal Hrusecky wrote:

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I called it Linux days. See if it works for you. http://s1108.photobucket.com/albums/h414/anditosan/?action=view¤ t=Tiled_poster_final2.png

I just printed it out - and the first question I got: Where is it? We need to print PRAGUE in a more prominent way.

This is the first time this kind of 'Linux Days' conference is done. So yes, it definitly needs to tell location and date in the biggest possible letters. At Linuxtag, we showed the poster at our booth. I received the following feedback: * The colors were great for the Andy Warhol Rip-off we had earlier. But now, nothing indicates that we still refer to Warhol. The artistic idea of for color separations is gone. * The gentoo logo differs from the others as it has a 3D look and shading, while everything else is flat. * The cameleon in the lower left has no luminance contrasts. It is drawn with with fully saturated colors only. The comment about full satuaration is not entirly correct. The green on purple is better than green on pure red, but it still hurts to stare at it for a while. One other note from myself: I have seen several printouts from the above url. Some of them had the colors far off. cheers, JW- -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de back to ascii! __/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 say #263A!__/ (____/ /\ (/) | _____________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, J.Guild, F.Imendoerffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg), Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany SuSE. Supporting Linux since 1992. ☺ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org

On Friday 18 May 2012 20:06:10 Michal Hrusecky wrote:

Jos Poortvliet - 14:00 18.05.12 wrote:

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Andi has made a (for now) final version of the poster. It is in Github - for anyone who thinks he/she can improve it further :D

Link to a small render: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/Conference%20600dpi%20.5cm%20bleed.png

(I did make 2 adjustments: add links & fix date & add a little text, and resize logo's and the whole thing to add some bleed. None of that is moved to github yet, maybe Andi would prefer to do that himself... Or anyone else up for doing a better job that I could?)

Andi promised to make a logo next. I also would like to ask him to put the sources on-line for this one: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29347181/oSC_Logo2_anditosan.png

my gf likes it a lot and tells me we should make a poster out of that one, too :D

So maybe we can have two posters, one showing the 'full' event, the other talkin' about the openSUSE part.

Ok, I was showing the posters to my brother and his feedback was that he really disliked the combination of the colors and that city contour is barely noticeable and overall meaning was too hidden in the poster. I told him that anybody can jump in and design the poster, so he did:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/oaietsr6owrri58/suse2.jpg

To be honest, this looks like the average 'I know little about design' linux conference poster... I like the background but it completely doesn't fit with the logo's etc. Then again, I'm even less an artist than the average person reading this, I bet :D