Hi and welcome, Thorsten! Thank you for the introduction :) I see you are in the Fedora Design chat which is a great start. I am most involved in badges design(more towards the cutesy page about cats end of things ;) )- but I would point you to https://gitlab.com/fedora/design as a starting place to check out what the Design Team is working on lately. I think Máirín will be best suited to help you find you an issue to work on.
I would suggest joining into the weekly Fedora Design Team Live session if you're able, here's the next one: https://calendar.fedoraproject.org/design/2023/1/23/#m10057 A video call link will be posted in the Design Team channel right before the meeting starts. Cheers! -- Marie Nordin Code of Conduct Specialist - Senior Community Architect Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> She/Her/Hers IRC/Element: riecatnor <https://red.ht/sig> On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:12 PM Thorsten Panknin < thorstenpank...@mailbox.org> wrote: > Hi, > > just subscribed to this list after joining the Matrix chat. > > I'm from Germany, so not an English native speaker. > > I'm new to the Fedora community and currently figuring out what I could > contribute to. Besides text-related work like translations and editing > German texts, I'm currently getting back into design. > > I completed a two-year occupational retraining as an online media designer > 20 years ago (yes, really), but never worked in the field due to health > issues. I am still, or rather again, interested in basic vector stuff with > Inkscape, especially since the multi-page feature got introduced. I > contributed a few vector works to the Openclipart project eons ago, which > are still available and stem from my time with the German Inkscape forum > back then. I'm not really a raster design person, I actually don't like > pixel work much. > > I just installed Penpot locally (thanks to the great Podman article by > linuxgrrrrl) and would like to get into grid-based design work, too, say a > 12-column design grid. I love it when stuff is aligned to other stuff and > to the page. And I like basic typography. I'm not a great, creative > designer I'd say, meaning that my stuff is mostly informational and a bit > neutral, maybe using some nice font and color, but not creative as "make a > funny page about cats, it should be cute an colourful". Not sure if you get > what I mean. > > I sometimes translate rules-light roleplaying games to German and mostly > provide a PDF as well, but mostly as ashcan versions without much image > design, because I lack the routine. If you're interested in seeing some of > my PDFs, please ask. I'd rather noch put links to my stuff in here > unsolicited. I'm currently applying a 12-column grid to my stuff so I get > some rhythm to my designs. Looking forward to Penpot's release on Jan 31st > when new layout features should be released, including a Flex-based layout. > Hoping that will make multi-column text frames possible. > > I sometimes suffer from Imposter syndrome and would love honest feedback, > because mostly I work alone and that can be hard. > > If you have any questions, feel free to ask here or in the Matrix chat of > the Design team where I started lurking. > > Cheers, > > Thorsten from Germany > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list -- design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to design-team-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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