Re: [ubuntu-art] YAM (Yet Another Mockup) - Tropical Feather: Renegade

2007-12-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 20:41 -0500, Nanley Chery wrote: Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Feather Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/sets/72157603534841580/ Looks orange, not golden to me. Very strong contrast. I'd call that brutal. Outlines of

Re: [ubuntu-art] Union Theme

2007-12-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 00:58 -0500, Ken Vermette wrote: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union The gradient on the panel menu is a bit dark on the top. Makes it look heavy and doesn't provide as much contrast to the text as it should. How will all the transparency look

Re: [ubuntu-art] Union Theme

2007-12-25 Thread Julian Oliver
..on or around Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 12:58:17AM -0500, Ken Vermette said: A few days back I said I'd create a theme based from my own work: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Hardy/Alternate/Union what i really like about this is: it's actually feasible. the softness shared across

Re: [ubuntu-art] Union Theme

2007-12-25 Thread Julian Oliver
..on or around Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 12:35:15PM +0100, Álvaro Medina Ballester said: 2.- Maybe transparency in the active window will not work well, and the background colour of the content area should be white (I mean, the place where there will be the icons if you're on nautilus or your

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 10:04 -0800, Troy James Sobotka wrote: Thorsten Wilms wrote: Having a clearly defined target audience would be of advantage. But I have to say that during my industrial design studies, this part was mostly guesswork. Then you didn't go to a very good school or

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Damian Vila
Troy James Sobotka escribió: The point of choosing an audience is not exactly as murky as you wish to paint it. It is perhaps one of the most valuable discussions this list has _ever_ seen. Unfortunately, in the end, the default installations presence and audience are outside of the scope

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thorsten Wilms wrote: For projects taking 4 months max, the time you can spend worrying about your target audience is quite limited. Perhaps ignoring the time constraints is worthy? Maybe get the 'broad' strokes in place then finesse in the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Troy James Sobotka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Damian Vila wrote: And Ubuntu won't be brown, that's for sure. I wonder if the trend toward eco friendly products could be embraced by a very 'earthy' feeling operating system. (Well 'earthy' in the 'idea', not the presentation) Unbleached CD

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread julian
..on Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 06:19:28PM +0100, Damian Vila wrote: Troy James Sobotka escribió: The point of choosing an audience is not exactly as murky as you wish to paint it. It is perhaps one of the most valuable discussions this list has _ever_ seen. Unfortunately, in the end, the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Union Theme

2007-12-25 Thread Ken Vermette
Thanks for the input everyone, I'll have a batch of improvements ready for tomorrow night. If I missed you, please tell me. Anyway, several issues were mentioned, I'll recap them and cover solutions, since this theme I hope to handle differently than BasicIdeals, I'm going to explain the design