March 2013 - openSUSE Artwork - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-artwork] Linux Action Show reviews 12.3 - loves our artwork
by Richard Brown 09 Apr '13

09 Apr '13

Well this review made my day, http://youtu.be/FsTQc0ME1eo?t=33m12s At http://youtu.be/FsTQc0ME1eo?t=50m25s they talk about our artwork, they really seem to dig the wallpaper, the Grub2 theme and the fade-in during boot (which they seem to mention again as they end the review.. "It boots sooo good!" http://youtu.be/FsTQc0ME1eo?t=1h1m11s) Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen - It's really nice to see all of our hard work be picked up and noticed like this..we really need to make sure 13.1 is just as good, or better! :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] [osc13] New tasks
by Stella Rouzi (differentreality) 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hey all! There are a couple of things we need for osc13: 1. I have added a new task in trello [1]: I need to resize the conf poster to 2m (height) x 0.80 cm (width) so as to print it in a big standing banner. Note: text should be max up to 1.70m height so that it shows when we unroll the banner. 2. Moreover, I need to use some of the designs in Carlo's g+ to produce a design for t-shirt (not conf t-shirts. We want to print some t-shirts for us to wear during conferences we attend). I am not sure who has the source files. For the back side of the t-shirt: -We want this design [2] with the "13" also in white color. -On top over the image we want to add the word "Greeko" (just like other t-shirts have Staff or sth... a bit big letters.) For the front side: We want this design [3] but a bit bigger, so that letters will be visible from some distance (for example if I am standing making a talk, people should be able to see the text from a couple rows back). Like a huge circle in the middle of the t-shirt. 3. I have already sent to Andy a button design we need altered (trello task here [4]) Generally the printing companies can use the designs in pdf's, but availability of project files would also be appreciated, just in case. Thanks so much everyone!!! Stella [1] Banner task: https://trello.com/card/resize-poster-to-2m-height-x-80cm-width/50c9f627390… [2] back t-shirt design: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-lIi_twbj1-o/UR-pp193_II/AAAAAAAAHJ0/sIzg… [3] front t-shirt design: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k06iP-VP87g/UPSXUd1UK8I/AAAAAAAAG90/sduD… [4] Trello task for button: https://trello.com/card/buttons/50c9f627390884e80700997e/59 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Design Submissions for 13.1
by Andy Silva 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Hello everyone! I first would like to congratulate everyone on participating with ideas, hackathon, submissions, comments and so on for the release of 12.3. It definitively took a lot of work to get it ready, but it was done and there is ample positive reception for it. I am glad that those who worked on theming were on the spotlight in every article that I read about the release. Since the recent suggestions for design on 13.1 by some of our contributors it is now the time to ask all of you to start sending your submissions in order for them to work on 13.1. The main idea is to base our work on your submissions. These can be wallpapers, color palettes, marketing artwork, wiki artwork, etc. This time around, there are a few ideas that we would like to keep and others to advance. For any questions, please note this email by Ilmehtar on the subject. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-artwork/2013-03/msg00025.html Additional to the "core" artwork that will be packaged, please remember that this time we also want to push a little extra so that not only one wallpaper makes it into the distribution but also package a set of "extra" wallpapers for it. Please keep in mind the theming guidelines for openSUSE. For any questions, please send a reply here or contact the rest of the team on IRC #opensuse-artwork. Let's make 13.1 another awesome release! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Suggestions for 13.1
by Richard Brown 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '13

Hi Team, So, 12.3 has been released to positive reviews, and our artwork in particular seems to have gone down well So lets start the discussion about what we're going to do for 13.1 Schedule - For 12.3, we didn't do a great job at getting stuff done at the right stage for proper testing and feedback by the distribution. Let's see if we can turn that around this time for 13.1 Coolo is yet to publish the 'official' 13.1 timeline, but my expectation is that with the release penned in for November, we want the artwork pretty much finished by Sept 31 Personally, I prefer the approach of 'release early and often', and I would love it if we're able to get something in to factory before the first Milestone (which I'd estimate to be in May), so we can constantly receive feedback and iteratively improve as the development of 13.1 moves forward - it worked even with the accelerated schedule for 12.3, I imagine it would work even better with 13.1 Colour / Palette - The decision to 'go dark' and use green as a highlight rather than a base colour seems to have gone down well. I think we should stick with it. In previous releases, we've been keen to dramatically change our colour schemes with new releases Given that the KDE team have used the same colours in their theme, and are unlikely to want to do a major retheme for 13.1, plus the possibility that GNOME will be using a new theme also based on the same colours, I strongly suggest that we don't do a dramatic palette change for 13.1 My recommendation would be to stick with the existing colours we used in 12.3, or to pick colours that compliment and co-exist with those currently in use. This will also cut down a lot of the polishing work for stuff like GRUB2's theme - I like the idea of being able to reuse as much of what we did for 12.3 as possible :) I would like to see us also be able to offer a 'light' version of the default wallpaper, because dark clearly isn't to everyone's taste - doing this while still being true to everything I just said might be a challenge, but shouldn't be impossible :) Design - The 'minimalist' approach in 12.3 went down well. Having a largely plain background with a single graphical element was a bold choice which I'd like us to consider sticking with for 13.1 This also enabled us to do the fancy Grub > Plymouth > Default Wallpaper fade-in transition which seems to have gone down very well with our users and reviewers. I think we should keep doing that, I know we talked about not tying all 3 together in the past, but we got it so right with 12.3, I think we should push to do it again for 13.1 Obviously, we probably don't want to stick with the vine idea (or do we?), so I'd suggest something equally organic (trees? leaves?), or perhaps something more abstract, circles, shapes..I dunno, but I do think we should be careful to keep it simple, and not have too many visual elements which may seem overwelming after 12.3's very clean and crisp aesthetic (the Twitter and Google+ covers are a good example of what I think would NOT be a good idea for 13.1 - while they work great as Social Media covers, they're awfully busy, and I do think we're on a good thing with much 'quieter' wallpapers) Alternative Wallpapers - This time around, hopefully we can get folk to submit wallpapers in the correct formats (png/svg) and at the appropriate aspect ratios (5:4, 4:3, 16:9, 16:10), and with the appropriate licenses of course, so that I can package them up so we can offer our users a full selection of designs from the team, rather than just the one that forms the basis for the Bootloader, bootsplash, and default wallpaper. Generally, I suppose my thoughts for 13.1 are "we did 12.3 well, why don't we learn from what we didn't do right, and build upon what we did" rather than our approach in previous releases which I feel has been more of a "start from scratch" each time. What do you all think? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] Any design for sweater please?
by Marguerite Su 12 Mar '13

12 Mar '13

Hi, all, I plan to produce some (<= 20) openSUSE sweater/mug for Chinese openSUSE lovers (preordered on forums). So anyone can tell which pattern I can use? It better be a recent one like the design for 12.3 is really suitable for a black sweater, XD. PS: do I need authorization from here or some other people? if it is, please tell me who I can talk to... Greetings Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] [Kind Remind] G+ profile banner just got bigger!
by Marguerite Su 10 Mar '13

10 Mar '13

Hi, all, I just noticed G+ profile banner just got bigger! http://susepaste.org/89550741 but our promotion material for 12.3 is still for the old size. can we modify this before the release? I don't know if the original author has time these days. PS: can anyone tell me the source of this picture? https://news.opensuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/geeko-RSS.png I need the source of the green geeko to make a new G+ icon, because I'm the maintainer for bento theme on gitorious. or I'll create a whole set. Greetings Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] 12.3 DVD cover
by Kenneth Wimer 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

Hi, The deadline arrived for the DVD covers so I took the existing design (where possible) and created a printable version. It is a bit different but similar. Oh, and I also made the files for the 32bit and 64bit stuff on the inside of the DVD as well. I put it in git if you want to check it out. In addition I rotated the old pdf so that when you open it it can be viewed properly. -- Kenneth Wimer SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-artwork] T-shirts
by DuBois, Scott L. 06 Mar '13

06 Mar '13

I spent the last couple of days working off and on with this shirt design if it is still of interest to anyone. I thought a "tribal" design might look cool on a shirt. https://www.dropbox.com/s/9twbyna2xnwsxx0/t-shirt_4_green.png On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Victor hck <correohck(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Scott. Here's the treath about T-shirts. > Here you can share your design with all. -- God bless ! Scott DuBois www.ROGUEHORSE.com openSUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] image for GM
by Victor hck 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Hi all !! I was playing with GIMP for make a cool image for the next GM announcement I was working with this image: - http://www.iwantcovers.com/change-may-be-just-around-the-corner/ And this is the result: - https://www.dropbox.com/s/gjkfl0jy8zmq172/openSUSE_esquina.jpg?m I don't know if the original image is free of licenses Mine, of course! CC-by ;) Feel free to say whatever, and to use if you want... Bye! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-artwork+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-artwork] letterhead for announcement?
by Jos Poortvliet 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Dear creative minds, I've got something for you to chew on: how about we make a nice letterhead for the otherwise boring press announcement? Of course, we send a just-text version, but many journalists get it in a docx file (heresy, I know) or ODF (much better). And we can include a nice letterhead there. Should NOT be 1.7 mb, by the way ;-) I don't have a good suggestion on what it could look like - but it should at least look professional, not playful (we have a release announcement on news.o.o which can be all playful, this one is for official business). What'd yah think? It isn't a MUST HAVE but we have at least a week so maybe someone can come up with something... /Jos

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