[ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-10-01 Thread rob
> > All the times I've tried to get people who don't really know much > about designing get involved with any work, whether it's print, web > or art, I've been let down because even though you'd expect those > people to be able to give a fully unbiased review from an outsider's > point of

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-06 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Michiel Sikma wrote: That's right. Like I said, I do think that it's a very good idea to work with the community so that we may get feedback from them, but I don't think that it's right to put much weight on such opinions. Julian's mail made kind of made it seem so, but I guess he too thinks th

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-03 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:39:17PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > > I guess we're on the same page, then. I think I misunderstood your first > post to the mailing list, actually. Sorry about that. > bah don't worry about it. text is better for talking to computers than to people. sounds like w

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-02 Thread j Mak
Julian Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote:> > Op 1-jun-2006, om 18:27 heeft Tom Moitie het volgende geschreven:> > >Julian isn't saying that the users should be choosing the direction > >that> >the Ubuntu artwork should go, but to gain

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-02 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Thu, 2006-01-06 at 09:17 -0700, Chuck Huber wrote: > Hopefully what comes from the Paris meeting will be rather broad style > guidelines and not a ton of overly confining details. I'm sure we all > appreciate that as artists we need room for creativity or else "Bad Art" > happens. Details are

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Julian Oliver wrote: ..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: Op 1-jun-2006, om 18:27 heeft Tom Moitie het volgende geschreven: Julian isn't saying that the users should be choosing the direction that the Ubuntu artwork should go, but to gain critique from them, so

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:30:20PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > > Op 1-jun-2006, om 18:27 heeft Tom Moitie het volgende geschreven: > > >Julian isn't saying that the users should be choosing the direction > >that > >the Ubuntu artwork should go, but to gain critique from them, so that > >you

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 1-jun-2006, om 18:27 heeft Tom Moitie het volgende geschreven: Julian isn't saying that the users should be choosing the direction that the Ubuntu artwork should go, but to gain critique from them, so that you, as the designers, can make better choices. Listening to people who don't know

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Tom Moitie
I'm not a graphical designer, but I'm just kind of reading in on these discussions. Hope you don't mind my input. On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 17:01 +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > No. Thinking that it's a good idea to listen to people who don't > know > anything about designing is a foolish thing. Peopl

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Chuck Huber
Public feedback should be looked at as a tool. It certainly should not be the only tool guiding design decision but used wisely(some would say sparingly) it can prove helpful. The least inspiring art I've seen was produced by well thought out and very democratic community decision. Isn't there a

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 1-jun-2006, om 15:04 heeft Julian Oliver het volgende geschreven: ..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:26:29PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: I don't think that's a very good idea. We need to select a theme based on good discussion about the propositions in which we provide good arguments. We're all

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Julian Oliver
..on Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:26:29PM +0200, Michiel Sikma wrote: > > I don't think that's a very good idea. We need to select a theme > based on good discussion about the propositions in which we provide > good arguments. We're all graphic designers, so we know what > usability means and wha

Re: [ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Michiel Sikma
Op 1-jun-2006, om 14:16 heeft Viper550 het volgende geschreven: Now, the future of Ubuntu's appearance rests in our hands, Edgy will feature a huge overhaul of the color scheme and we'll change to adapt! Says who? Don't we have yet to decide exactly which direction we're going to take wi

[ubuntu-art] That's a wrap everyone!

2006-06-01 Thread Viper550
We've all done a great job working on Dapper, and it seems our work has payed off! Great job everyone, even though I don't use Ubuntu, your artwork still looks good on my Fedora Core 5 system! Now, the future of Ubuntu's appearance rests in our hands, Edgy will feature a huge overhaul of the co