On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Bryen M Yunashko
On Sun, 2012-12-30 at 20:08 -0800, Drew Adams wrote:
Hey everyone,
Those of us involved with working the openSUSE booth for SCaLE 11x 2013 had the great idea for a custom banner for the booth... one problem though... we don't have a design, and non of us are skilled in computer graphics. If there is anyone who could help us design a Southern California themed banner, that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
-- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project
Drew,
Good to see you continuing to put energy into the preparations for SCaLE. I'm sure it will remain awesome thanks to your participation and leadership.
If I may make a suggestion, you will get a faster turnaround response to your design request if you give some specific ideas of your vision. "Southern California-themed" is still rather broad.
For example, maybe you have a vision of Geeko sitting on a hammock between two palm trees, or a vision of Geeko roller-blading down Venice Beach. Or Geeko walking the red carpet in sunglasses at a Hollywood movie premiere, and the fans along the velvet rope are all hackergotchis from Planet openSUSE.
The more you give a direction of the concept you want and what you want to evoke to booth visitors, the easier it will be for an artist to crank out what it is you want in a very short period of time.
Also, don't know if I gave the link before, but we've been printing our banners in the U.S. at Banners On The Cheap. Quality is very good, good pricing and fast delivery. http://www.bannersonthecheap.com/
The banner you and I were using for the past year was a 4 foot tall x 8 foot wide banner. If I were to do it again, I would actually split the design into 2-3 banners and hang them all vertically like a mosaic next to each other.
FYI: Banners are printed on vinyl with screen printing. That means you only need up to 100dpi quality images. And because of the screen printing, you can actually take a smaller sized image and stretch it into the upload box on the website and it will still look great. But if you want high-detail imagery, don't do it on vinyl banners.
Just my two cents!
Bryen
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Bryen, Thank you so much for your input on this... I don't think I even knew about bannersonthecheap.com. I do realize that in my attempt to keep my email brief it was not very clear in what I had in mind. Though, I must admit that anything that incorporates Geeko into a scene that uses commonly associated imagery from Southern California, would be great. (example: Geeko pressing his hands into cement with a crowd of flashing cameras around him... or any of the ideas that you tossed out). I think the one we go with may be dictated by what the person creating the image feels their skills will permit them to do best... perhaps I am wrong by that, but I am not a computer graphics person. Perhaps they are equally as easy or difficult to do? I really can't say. -- Drew Adams Member & Ambassador, openSUSE Project -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner@opensuse.org