Hi Johannes! Am Donnerstag, den 17.02.2011, 17:46 +0100 schrieb Johannes Bausch: > Weird, I thought I'd have subscribed to the design list. Seems as if I have > cancelled the subscription by accident. And I wondered why noone works on > this stuff ^^.
:-) Glad to have you back!!! Cheers, Christoph > 2011/2/17 Bernhard Dippold <bernh...@familie-dippold.at> > > > Hi Joey, all! > > > > You're totally that we want to go on with the Community Design. > > > > But this will happen on the design list, not on marketing. > > > > So please: everybody interested in this task: Join our Design Team. > > > > The Kick-Off for the Design Team has reached it's third step: Introduction > > of the Team Members: > > > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off#Step_3:_Introduction_of_the_Team_Members > > > > The Community Design is one of the main points in Step 7 - probably to be > > started in a few weeks, while the steps in-between are necessary to be > > solved before. > > > > CC'ing the design list, so the people there are aware of this mail... > > > > Best regards > > > > Bernhard > > > > (for the design list I keep the full quote) > > > > > > Johannes Bausch schrieb: > > > > Hey folks, > >> > >> as far as I have followed the development so far it seems that both logo > >> and > >> icons (which make the gross of our branding) for the current release (3.3) > >> have been used quite extensively and seem to be the ones we will settle on > >> in the long run. I still want to share some thoughts about that. > >> > >> 1. What happened to the community branding? As the current logo has been > >> used so much, I must say that I want to speak *against* changing it again. > >> 2. The wiki branding site is still full of ideas for logos, mascots, icons > >> etc. and it seems as if nothing is decided yet. And this is the official > >> position, isn't it? Having said that, I'd like to encourage you (us) to > >> somehow finalize the branding. There are so many great artists (see the > >> wallpaper renders of the icons) who use, yes, which drafts? - The official > >> one? The ones they like most? - for their work. I think it would be better > >> if we had a clear decision regarding branding, and that as soon as > >> possible. > >> 3. There is no central place to look for resources (yes, since we haven't > >> decided upon an official version yet, I begin to repeat myself). The > >> wallpaper renders, for example, where are the source files for these > >> icons? > >> They look like Bernhard's, but even better. *They *should be the ones used > >> in the application. > >> > >> Now some minor issues which I still don't like about the current > >> "official" > >> files. > >> 1. The "LibreOffice" still has no proper ligatures. From a typographic > >> point > >> of view the text looks cheap. > >> 2. There is no proper spacing/connection between logo and logo text: > >> http://tinyurl.com/6kt8n8q > >> For me logo and text look like two distinct parts. There are several > >> reasons > >> for this. The edges on the logo are rounded while the text has sharp ones. > >> The lines of text and logo are not the same width. > >> 3. I don't like the emboss effect on the "contemporary color" version > >> (while > >> this might be my personal opinion, I still want you to consider that for a > >> second. In my eyes it just looks like a cheap gimp filter added to the > >> normal version). > >> > >> As far as I can remember, we thought about starting work on the official > >> branding after 3.3 is released. I am willing to spend some time on this > >> issue over the next few months, but only if we can decide upon a goal in > >> this discussion. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Joey > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org > > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ > > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > > > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
