Re: Drawing the pretty pictures

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 02:40:54PM +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
 On Sat, 04 Jun 2005 14:02:38 +0200
 Andreas Nilsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  In the long run it would be nice of course to have a style guide 
  for all the flyers and printed stuff, gnome.org web and other stuff to
  make it all fit together nicley. But that is a whole bunch of work and
  coordinating the art on the liveCD is satisfying for now.
 
 sri mentions on his blog that he heard Steve Gerrity is working on
 www.gnome.org (layout, I assume). This seems to be a good chance to
 establish a style that is usable across different media. Sri, any more
 info on that?

Yeah, Jeff was telling me about that.  I liked Steve's work on planet a lot
and I had mentioned that Steve should tackle w.g.o next.  So I think Steve
is a good person to talk to.

 Maybe Sebastien likes to help, too? He made several suggestions for
 posters, and is doing the gnome.org splash screens.

I think I got my brother to check out Ubuntu and he's a graphics artist
but I'm not sure if he'll do it for free.  Maybe I'll just pay him. :-)

Sebastian did some nice ones I remember.


sri
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Re: Drawing the pretty pictures

[Simos Xenitellis]

Welcome Andreas!
It's really good to have people that have proper background in artwork.

There is something already you may want to look into! Sorry in advance
if I dump too much information, too soon..

When you boot with a GNOME LiveCD, the very first screen shows a Boot
splash image, such as
http://planet.hellug.gr/misc/elliniko-gnome-final.PNG
http://project77.info/gnomelive/

Now, how the first screen appears is quite important for first
impressions in a marketing way, so the boot splash should look good.

My suggestion would be to have a different boot splash for every release
of the GNOME Live CD (happens every six months, next is around
September). So, for each LiveCD release a new boot splash, one that will
be similar across different languages (French, German, etc) of the
LiveCD.

To create such an image, see
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/LiveCDCustomizationHowTo
and specifically the section Customizing the bootsplash. In that
section there is a reference to an .SVGfile
(http://planet.hellug.gr/misc/gnome-greek-logo.svg)
which can be edited with programs like InkScape. This file has been used
for a few LiveCDs already.

Therefore, around September there will be a need for a new super
fabulous boot splash.

I am not sure if anyone wants to recommend working for a new boot splash
for potential new LiveCDs based on Ubuntu 5.04.

Simos


 03//2005, 19:09, 
/ Andreas Nilsson
: 
 Hello there!
 Some of you probably met me at Guadec, but I'll do a short presentation 
 for everyone else.
 My name is Andreas Nilsson and I am a 23 year old guy with an education 
 in illustration and graphics design and I am interested in doing artwork 
 for various gnome stuff.
 I have already promised Dave Neary to draw some artwork for the live cd 
 intended for some french conference, but I'll be happy to draw 
 everything else you trow at me.
 - Andreas

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