Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Great artwork

2011-02-21 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Paulo, I just wanted to say WOW (and thank you!). We need this kind of material - the 3D perspectives make the icons striking (and they also bring out your wonderful details). I do, however, think that the most recent images (particularly Wallpaper 1) are too bright. They might make great prese

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Templates

2011-02-01 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Kevin, David, all, On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:36 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:31, Kevin Soviero wrote: >> The default templates for Impress have been terrible since the beginning of >> OOo.  I want to make a beautiful set of templates for LibreOffice's versi

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] branding colors - missmatch

2011-01-17 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Tom, Johannes, Thomas, Christoph, all, On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Jpg does horrible things to pictures especially when not pushing pictures up > to > top-quality when saving.  All those horrible swirls and ripples around corners > remind me of a boat cutting through

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [COMMUNICATION] New Mailing List / Structure Proposal for the SC (Re: Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?)

2010-11-17 Thread Ivan M.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > [... lots of +1s] +1 :) - Ivan. -- E-mail to marketing+h...@libreoffice.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/marketing/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly a

[libreoffice-marketing] Branding Ideas Page

2010-11-17 Thread Ivan M.
Hi all, The Marketing Ideas page was becoming unwieldy again - i.e., far too long. I think it should be used as an initial sandbox/incubator, but once enough momentum has been gained ideas should be moved to their own wiki page) So I've moved all the broader branding proposals to a Branding ideas

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] [DESIGN] Do we need a separate mailing list for artwork/usability/branding...?

2010-11-12 Thread Ivan M.
Hi all, On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > [...] > I'd propose to use the tag [DESIGN], as it covers not only artwork, branding > and visual design, but usability design and UI design too. > > If this tag is not sufficient to differ these topics from general marketing, >

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?

2010-11-10 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:30 AM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi Ivan, :-) > > I understood what you meant. It's a good idea, and I'll bear that in > mind. Meanwhile, if anyone else has any other suggestions, please do > chip in. Just saw this blog post on Planet Ubuntu: http://drupal.txwiki

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?

2010-11-09 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, quick addendum :) On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Ivan M. wrote: > [...] It would be nice to have people from various distros' artwork > teams work together and tell us how we can make our branding stronger > so that they don't end up replacing it all with their ow

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?

2010-11-09 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:05 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > I'm proactively contacting people with graphic design skills, to try > and attract them to join the LibO project. My current source for > possible contributors is http://www.csszengarden.com/, where there's a > lot of bea

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: Res: Res: Re: Change icon?

2010-11-08 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Graham, all, On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > [...] > The paper plane is cool, I like it better than the folded page, however that > is just an aesthetic judgement, from a practical branding POV the paper loses > under the uniqueness criteria. IMO, the paper page is not

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Branding ... Progress, Next Steps, Roadmap, Outlook?

2010-11-05 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Christoph, Bernhard, all, On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi Christoph, all, > > [...] > > Even if I'd like to see different mimetype icons in the final release than > the OOo3.2.0 icons, I don't think we can create some in the short timeframe, > if we want to avoid l

Re: Branding Color Refinement Step 1 of n (was: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming)

2010-11-01 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Jens, Christoph, all, On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Jens Habermann wrote: >[...] > > Colors are fine, but maybe we also should add a grey row with four > greyshades... That's a good point. Graham's email reply to this (earlier) topic suggested a somewhat lighter gray for the LibreOffice l

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Ubuntu 11.04 & Libre Office

2010-10-30 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 9:15 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, :-) > > FYI, I noticed that when I did a clean installation of the Ubuntu > 10.10 beta, it was no longer installing a vast range of software by > default. In times past, popular titles like Gimp, OpenOffice, etc. got > installed

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-28 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Bernhard, all, On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > [...] > > Could you provide better color tones for the lighter greens (and others?). > Even if it would be possible to change them later too, the sooner the better > for everybody using these colors for her/his artwork

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Marc, Christoph, all, On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > [...] > > I actually like the LibO green. It is refreshing and NOT blue. I know that > blue is usually picked for its psychological feeling of calmness, but the > LibO green is a nice departure of this. +1 - it's a goo

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [tdf-discuss] LibO program icon brainstorming

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi Bernhard, all, On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Bernhard Dippold wrote: > Hi Christoph, all >[...] >> And by the way: I also included "yellow color idea" and updated the >> proposal which is based on your proposal ... Some of the colors that have been chosen are quite difficult to work with d

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Invite a pro graphic artist to contribute logo/icon design [was: Conference call tomorrow]

2010-10-25 Thread Ivan M.
Hi David, I'd like to add a +1 to Graham's points in relation to past experiences. I'm not against inviting others to participate, but I am concerned about the mandate(s) that such invitations might imply for reasons I'll outline below. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David Nelson wrote: > Hi G