Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (72 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/12/11 Marcus wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> > I agree, the mathematical shapes denote continuity. I simply wonder
> > how many people will understand the idea or even appreciate the
> > artwork. That was all. Hopefully Marcus continues to work with the
> > guidelines he has set. However, he cannot dismiss good artwork,
> > simply because "it's not what we want," that is why I suggested
> > that artwork that's proposed be used accordingly. It could be used
> > as an extra theme for kdm, or an extra wallpaper in the current
> > set of wallpapers.
>
> It's not about dismissing good artwork. It's about concepts.
>
> Take a look at e.g. how Fedora does it.
>
> Wallpaper submissions should fit into that concept.
>
> One idea is e.g. to create a surface for every release, and let ppl
> create artwork based on that. And within these rules everyone is free
> to do whatever he/she wants.

fwiw, I agree. And the idea of JDD having some shape and for each 
release and tell people to use it somehow is very good.

Meanwhile, for 12.1, I like where your work is going. It's a bit too 
smooth for my taste - look at what piotr did with the background. Maybe, 
the two pieces of work fit together - the flower-like shape on the 
background (which also features flower-like things). In any case, 
something flower+mathematics is awesome, I like that stuff.

But as usual - I'm not an artist and suck at judging art too :D

> Greets
> Marcus