Hi Trey, Do you have enough help for your shirt design or are you just lloking for ideas now?
TAG Trey Ethridge wrote: > Hello all! > > I'm riding in two charity bike rides this year. One is for Multiple > Sclerosis and the other is for Diabetes. I've requested and received > permission from Canonical to create custom jerseys for use on these > rides. My team is going to be called "Team Ubuntu". > > This is a chance for the community to show that we can roll with the > best jerseys that we often see for companies like Microsoft, Red Hat, > Cisco, and Nortel. I'm am hoping that we can use some Ubuntu culture > for the theme of the jersey. Ubuntu has a unique mascot for each > release. My thought was that we would design a jersey that > incorporated the mascots of our releases. The style of the Hardy > Heron wallpaper was pretty popular and would probably look good on > jerseys. Here is a link to the wall paper I'm referring > to: http://images.google.com/images?q=hardy+heron+wallpaper > > The jersey could include the current supported releases or we could > try to incorporate them all. The jersey isn't limited to a predefined > set of colors, so we really have a lot of leeway in our design. > > Here is the list of mascots so you don't have to look them up: > > Lucid Lynx > Karmic Koala > Jaunty Jackalope > Intrepid Ibex > Hardy Heron > Dapper Drake > > Gutsy Gibbon > Feisty Fawn > Edgy Eft > Breezy Badger > Hoary Hedgehog > Warty Warthog > > I realize that there is a wiki page for Ubuntu Jerseys, but I feel > that we want to push the boundaries more than these designs. The > jerseys appear to be limited by the number of colors that they can > contain due to manufacturing limits. Plus, they appear to just reuse > a lot of logos and I'm hoping for something new and exciting. > > Here is a link to some designs that another cycling team in the > Multiple Sclerosis ride received when they placed a bid on the > crowdspring.com <http://crowdspring.com> design site. > http://www.crowdspring.com/project/1283223_cycling-jersey-logo-vin/ > > Check out the Ubuntu jerseys here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuCyclists > > I've picked out a company to print our jerseys. They require that the > design be in the SVG format. Here is a link to the templates that > they recommend using when designing. > > Jersey template: > http://champ-sys.com/media/SS%20Raglan%20Without%20Side%20Panel.pdf > > Shorts template: > http://champ-sys.com/media/FullWrap%20U%20Panel%20MBI040.pdf > > They have some notes about the black areas of the templates. The > black area can be one of seven pre-dyed colors. I recommend checking > out the notes on the page. > > http://champ-sys.com/custom/cycling/formsandtemplates > > The Diabetes ride is in June and the Multiple Sclerosis ride is in > September. The manufacturing process takes 6 to 8 weeks, so we have > some time to design. > > I look forward to hearing from the group. This is an exciting > opportunity for your artwork to be seen by thousands of participants > in these events. Please let me know if you have questions or need > additional information. > > Sincerely, > Trey Ethridge > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2681 - Release Date: 02/11/10 > 02:35:00 > > -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art