Moin, On Tuesday 14 September 2010 16:29:15 S.Kemter wrote:
Am Dienstag 14 September 2010, 15:18:15 schrieb Michael Loeffler:
Moin,
On Tuesday 14 September 2010 06:08:21 Helen wrote:
Ricardo Varas Santana wrote -
we as openSUSE Community should and must take our own path, creating our own and awesome t-shirt design.
Absolutely!
Using another
distro or project designs would be like we're following and not leading.
Yes, as I said - it's to be inspired by the variety of approach, not to copy.
I like the most simple stuff out of Threadless though.
I agree - some of the stuff is very clumsy and busy. I think simple, even elegant, and uncluttered are useful ideas and fit well with openSUSE. It's possible to be expressive and artistic within that - it doesn't have to be stiff and boring.
When combining inspiration or concepts, I feel it's important that they gel successfully and you don't have unrelated images just pushed together, or too many design elements competing for attention.
For the OSC, or "general purpose" t-shirt?
I guess the OSC designs wouldn't translate well to a general-purpose shirt as the skyline is rather place-specific. (on the other hand, I have an Edelrid shirt that has "Made in Germany" stamped across it, which I rather like...) But perhaps the design elements could work, adapted - the heavier logo to one side, a lightweight linear design across with alternative logo/text to anchor the other side.
Is there any reason that a print-to-order shop like Cafe Press or Zazzle is unsuitable? I've never used these, but it seems to be a good way to offer a choice of designs. (I guess this has probably been discussed in the past... apologies for my extreme noobiness today!)
We have that - http://shop.opensuse.org/ But we don't treat it well. That means we created the stuff 1 or 2 years ago and never touched it again :-(
michl had some time ago a conversation with henne about that shop and push some of my motives like "Super-SUSE" or the japanese geeko or the graffiti motifes to it.
I have a little conflict doing this, on the one side I know the money from the shop is directly reused for buying marketing stuff. But otherwise I saw ugly things like this black stuff I didnt realize for what it is and noone liked it on events, u know what I mean.
So michl, when I work as a non paid designer and give away may graphics for nothing, can I see for what the money u earned with it is used? Just checked the latest accounting stuff we received from spreadshirt. We're talking about roughly € 100 per quarter income. Currently this income goes to Novell as openSUSE itself isn't able yet to receive money. And now we're again on the foundation which could solve this.
Best M
br gnokii
Best M
best,
Helen
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