-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 julian wrote: > ..on Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:30:53PM +0200, Özgür BASKIN wrote: >> +1 for elephant-skin picture :)
> i think the cleanest themes are those that simply don't a) try to make a > strong artistic statement and b) don't try to bring the corporeal world > into the digital. > > in the end is just smells like a bad magic trick. > Think again. Your statement tends to put about 1000 years of art and design knowledge into the back seat, lock the door, and throw out the key. It has been proven time and time again that strong deliveries of art / design _will_ have a very obvious impact on both sales(1), adoption, and even perceived 'usability'(2). If you need further proof aside from the general award winning home designs, product design, or pretty much _anything_ else surrounding you in your everyday life, you can always go back to the rather standard comparisons with Apple and Microsoft. Apple's Leopard campaign is a very tight presentation from wallpaper to marketing to website embracing the spacey connotations of their "Time Machine" software -- extending even into the sound design of their promotional video that features a rather funky back masking cue. Vista, aside from their gaudy plastic packaging and such, uses the simple connections to water godrays and like 'tricks' to try and instill the user with 'awe' and 'wow'. The wallpaper works pretty well in this regard. If you are hoping for more bland monochromatic presentations, you might well get your wish as it is pretty trendy in our limited design capacities out here in Free Software. That said, it doesn't make your opinion correct nor founded on any hard reality. Tepid watered down deliveries are not the path of the future. Sincerely, TJS 1 - You can easily look to the advent of album cover design in the music industry. The 1930's, Alex Steinweiss created the first 'album' cover as we know it today. While working at CBS records he had the 'epiphany' that the plain white album jackets were unattractive and lacked any appeal. With the advent of artistic and designed album art hit the business, sales rocketed. Newsweek reported that sales for the designed albums, including Bruno Walter's Beethoven Eroica Symphony broke _all_ records compared to the same release in a non-illustrated package. The rest is, as they say, history. 2 - Consider the 'Aesthetic Usability Effect' as described in "Universal Principles of Design". Loosely, it describes a noted response that designs hitting on the aesthetic sensibilities of a given user will have resultant feedback offered that a design was easier to use and more enjoyed than a design devoid of the attempted aesthetic, despite a similarity of features. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHWLnLar0EasPEHjQRAgTwAKDAYlPtUfbWpI+vIXk56P4k0p75QQCgtaGY 9+zqMVXa0f1rGsCnwdHD/sE= =Mz+0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
