Re: [ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
On Aug 22, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi guys > > We had a fantastic experience at LinuxWorld San Francisco last > week, with tremendous interest in the community and commercial > stands for Ubuntu at the expo. Jane briefed me on feedback from the > conference, and there w

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Michiel Sikma
I think we have gone a little off-topic. :) On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:33 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote: > I cannot stress enough how 'knee-deep' we are in it > right now folks -- the deadline is coming _fast_. We > must demonstrate serious work ethic and finish this > task -- as tedious and repetitio

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Troy James Sobotka
On Tue, 2006-22-08 at 19:04 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Well, we also have some time "in the bank" with the designer who did > the Dapper icon set, so we expect to get some changes and improvements > to that icon set in for Edgy. If you have specific icons that you > think need to be done (

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Frank Schoep wrote: One goal I set for myself was to _only_ use ideas and sketches that came up during our collaborative brainstorming. I want the artwork we're producing to be the sum of our collaboration to showcase what we can do with the team, basically the end-goal of our new proc

[ubuntu-art] Some guidelines for consideration

2006-08-22 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Hi guys We had a fantastic experience at LinuxWorld San Francisco last week, with tremendous interest in the community and commercial stands for Ubuntu at the expo. Jane briefed me on feedback from the conference, and there were a couple of items that I think are worth passing on to you, becau

Re: [ubuntu-art] Excellent sound work

2006-08-22 Thread Peter Savage
Hey everyone,I've been away for some of this weekend, but after a meeting with Frank last week we decided to pick three of the themes and develop some kind of logout sound for each of them.  I have done this and they can be found below, I have renumbered, and the older samples will now not be devel

Re: [ubuntu-art] Starting the Produce phase for Edgy Eft

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
On Aug 19, 2006, at 4:50 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Just a quick note to say thanks to Frank for getting the ball > rolling on the Produce phase. Having had a look over the "Propose" > phase results I'm very, very excited! I think there are some > excellent visual themes there that will m

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Who
> > > > I hope you can do this. I think Ubuntu just has too many loading > > screens. :) > > I don't think we can pull off amazing things like this for Edgy. > We'll probably have to work within Dapper-like constraints for most > of the artwork which implies that the login splash can only use 1-bit

Re: [ubuntu-art] Creating Human Iconset SVGs

2006-08-22 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello everybody, On Di, 2006-08-22 at 14:25 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote: > Things I know are that Dapper does ship with some SVGs (mostly > filesystems IIRC) and that there seems to have been some effort by > "Orro" (if I'm not mistaking). Also, as I mentioned earlier, Troy has > sent me some

[ubuntu-art] Creating Human Iconset SVGs

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
Hello artists, Following up on the mail I just sent, I'd like to gather the details on the previous and current efforts on completing the SVG set of Human icons. I haven't been following this closely I'm afraid, so if you have any pointers to activity regarding this, they're all welcome. Th

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:33 AM, Michiel Sikma wrote: > On Aug 19, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Who wrote: >> Personally, I was struggling to produce much that I liked with all >> out >> gloss, I think that matte/gloss will be much easier to produce work >> that is easy on the eyes and has a positive impact. Do

Re: [ubuntu-art] Styles/looks discussion

2006-08-22 Thread Frank Schoep
On Aug 22, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Michiel Sikma wrote: > On Aug 19, 2006, at 2:22 PM, PingunZ wrote: >> My preferences are " Rounded " and " Matte and Gloss " >> >> What I like about Rounded : >> - A face browser for the GDM. This is really popular on sites like >> gnome-look. I'd really like to see it