Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-artwork (81 mails)

[Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 18 May 2012 20:06:10 Michal Hrusecky wrote:
> Jos Poortvliet - 14:00 18.05.12 wrote:
> > 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