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Re: [opensuse-artwork] design for openSUSE t-shirts ?
- From: Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:05:31 +0200
- Message-id: <201008261605.31587.wstephenson@xxxxxxx>
On Thursday 26 August 2010 02:59:58 Ricardo Varas Santana wrote:
That's a linux camouflage t-shirt, right? One we can wear at any geek
conference and nobody will notice we are there.
I do beg your pardon for dismissing this design, but without honest criticism
it won't improve, and I'd love to see you design something that we print and
ship all around the world. This design is a variation of the existing ones we
have.
So I do have a wardrobe full of SUSE, Novell, openSUSE, KDE, Qt, and
associated companies' free t-shirts, and I'm probably jaded. My wife hides
most of the shirts I bring home as soon as she can to stop me wearing them.
If I were designing a t-shirt, I'd aim for something which
*) is recognisably openSUSE
*) would make people think 'I want one of those' and 'I want to hang out with
openSUSE, they must be cool because they have cool t-shirts'.
If you can, go to a Free Software event and spend a bit of time people
watching. Which are the projects who look like A N Other FLOSS Project and
which are the ones you remember? Then go down the high street and see what
the expensive t-shirts in the shops look like, and produce an openSUSE
pastiche. There's no shame in doing that, it's what H&M etc are doing to the
brands that employ good designers do - it's what Gnokii's designs do to Stüssy
circa 1994 :P.
Constructively,
Will
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SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 7:11 AM, S.Kemter
<buergermeister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tonight I'd like to share with you another attempt for the openSUSE
t-shirt. Hope to have feedback.
Back:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5G-iamnQymTM2I3NGMwZDItYzg0Ny00NjIyLWE2N
zgtYzJiZTFmM2IzZmEw&hl=en&authkey=CPmgtcwI Front:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5G-iamnQymTNjVhNmFkNjQtNDZjNi00YjhjLWIyZ
mEtNmIzM2UwOWVjOTUy&hl=en&authkey=CJqMwvMM
That's a linux camouflage t-shirt, right? One we can wear at any geek
conference and nobody will notice we are there.
I do beg your pardon for dismissing this design, but without honest criticism
it won't improve, and I'd love to see you design something that we print and
ship all around the world. This design is a variation of the existing ones we
have.
So I do have a wardrobe full of SUSE, Novell, openSUSE, KDE, Qt, and
associated companies' free t-shirts, and I'm probably jaded. My wife hides
most of the shirts I bring home as soon as she can to stop me wearing them.
If I were designing a t-shirt, I'd aim for something which
*) is recognisably openSUSE
*) would make people think 'I want one of those' and 'I want to hang out with
openSUSE, they must be cool because they have cool t-shirts'.
If you can, go to a Free Software event and spend a bit of time people
watching. Which are the projects who look like A N Other FLOSS Project and
which are the ones you remember? Then go down the high street and see what
the expensive t-shirts in the shops look like, and produce an openSUSE
pastiche. There's no shame in doing that, it's what H&M etc are doing to the
brands that employ good designers do - it's what Gnokii's designs do to Stüssy
circa 1994 :P.
Constructively,
Will
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Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex
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