Design Team meeting tomorrow!
by Máirín Duffy
Hi folks! :)
Just a friendly reminder our second weekly meeting is at 7 PM UTC today
in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net.
On the agenda are:
- new www.fpo design for F14
- F14 schedule - reminders about upcoming deadlines
-- F14 Artwork concepts & development... status?
-- We need some guidelines / writeup for the supplemental wallpaper
process. It should include licensing & theme guidance and maybe some
general what-makes-a-good-wallpaper guidelines.
-- New script for collecting supplemental wallpapers
-- We need someone to own feedback collection for the F14 artwork
- Our trac queue
- Congrats on first biweekly design bounty finish :)
- Biweekly Design Bounty for this bi-week :)?
- Any other business you might want to bring up.
Below is a time conversion listing for folks who filled out the
whenisgood.net meeting time page.
~m
Luya: 12 PM
Ian: 2 PM
Tatica: 3 PM
Martha: 3 PM
Máirín: 3 PM
Onyeibo: 8 PM
fabsh: 9 PM
wonderer: 9 PM
Martin: 9 PM
Nicu: 10 PM
Pierros: 10 PM
13 years, 6 months
Conceptual Design Phase -same concept
by Catalin
We need initiate a project vision/ strategy.
This part of this process may involved extensive public and community input.
Maybe we need conceptual sketches, digital models to promote same concept.
13 years, 6 months
Re: [Design-team] Concepts for F14
by Kyle Baker
Hi Design Friends,
In the last email I was inspired by the project name Laughlin and the phrase ' The whole is more than the sum of its parts.' I saw this as an opportunity to push the visual concept of cut and paste. Replication of the same simple shape to make a very complex design. How far can you push it. Something as simple as a line can be pushed pretty far. Here are some links:
http://ffffound.com/image/f66c6f2b56f058f65f07de831ff41764c7a9d726
http://ffffound.com/image/40a9d9f63206e3a4b2f6b095431fd1727070f0fe
http://ffffound.com/image/f07eeae06727922c461a1a28f01f7e197fcc21d6
http://www.justinmaller.com/showcase.html (more or less)
http://ffffound.com/image/3c4689564b36a005b824a992e685a6651d19ad31 (more or less)
The cut and paste concept would work with any shape. I am going to just take a simple line and push it. I did a pencil concept sketch for a line illustration idea I had. Anyone is welcome to pursue it with me.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts
There are a lot of great inspirational resources out there I use that are available to you.
http://ffffound.com/
http://www.behance.net/
http://www.cpluv.com/
Hope this helped with some inspiration!
Kyle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Máirín Duffy" <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>
To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:59:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Design-team] Concepts for F14
> > As for the deadline, AFAIK we have not yet the dates set, so it will be
> > announced later, but it will probably be some time before Alpha
> > (probably something between 1 and 3 weeks before Alpha freeze to give us
> > enough time to decide on a final concept, to put it in enough shape for
> > alpha and to package it).
One of the suggestions for visualizing the theme for Laughlin was,
"Something that can illustrate the emergence concept, like multiple
objects combined to create a new one (more complex). "
The work of Robert Laughlin, who "was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in
physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Moreover he argues for emergence which is a concept that says 'The whole
is more than the sum of its parts.' Fedora is more than the sum of its
software."
Visually I think this concept could make a nice theme. It could be cool
to use objects or phenomena from nature to illustrate it. e.g., many
drops of water making a stream or whatnot. Do you have any ideas on how
we might visualize this?
BTW Tatica put together some mockups around a atomic theme:
http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/F14/
I think the backdrop of atomos.svg is nice - with a bit of tweaking it
could make a nice abstract pattern.
~m
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13 years, 6 months
No team meeting this week
by Máirín Duffy
Hi folks,
Sorry I flubbed up the meeting this week. We were supposed to have one
yesterday, but I have been traveling away from home and didn't get a
chance to send out a reminder email.
We're new to this, so hopefully we'll start getting consistent the more
we meet. I will send out a meeting reminder the night before or the
morning of our next meeting, which should be next Tuesday 7 PM UTC.
~m
13 years, 6 months
MgOpen Modata & accents
by Máirín Duffy
Luya's blog post tonight [1] reminded me of an ongoing issue we have -
our secondary font, MgOpen Modata, doesn't have basic accent marks (I
can't even write my own name in it.)
Do we want to consider switching to a different font that does? There
are more openly-licensed fonts than ever, far more than when we
initially decided to go with MgOpen Modata. I found this font that has a
similar rounded look (it's a wider and more widely-spaced font, but I
think that's okay) and it seems to cover all the basic accents including
acute, grave, umlat, circumflex, etc.:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Quicksand
It's called Quicksand. The author has said he has released it
'license-free' and commercial use is permitted. We would need to get in
touch with him and see if he would be amenable to releasing it under a
recognized open font license before we could include it in Fedora, but
he does seem responsive in the typophile forums [2].
What do you think?
~m
[1]
http://blog.thefinalzone.net/2010/06/mgopen-modata-andet-accents.html
[2] http://www.typophile.com/node/50437#comment-346232
13 years, 6 months
Fluxbox style
by Andreas Wallberg
Hi Design Team!
I am a long-time Fluxbox user and recent Fedora convert who miss an
official Fedora style for Fluxbox. I have been playing around with the
colour palette from the Icon guidelines available over at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/EchoIconGuidelines to create a
minimalistic (in the traditional spirit of fluxbox) yet appealing look
with a familiar "Fedora feel" to it. For speed and responsiveness, I
have chosen not to use pixmaps at all but will stick to the native
colour and gradient rendering in Fluxbox which is easily specified
with RGB codes.
However, I have a question:
The Clearlooks Metacity the Fedora icon themes clearly go hand in hand
in terms of the soft blue tones (are they based on the Tango
palette?). I am using the "Fedora Blues" for the windows and toolbar
in my draft but the colours look a tad bit off compared to icons,
scrollbar and other blueish widgets on the Gnome/Gtk desktop. So here
it goes: when creating a style from scratch like this with the aim of
inclusion in Fedora, should I prioritize an "official" Fedora
trademark palette (if there is one), which boosts the Fedora identity,
or the palette which integrates best with the default widgets and
icons (which I presume results in the smoothest experience for the
user)?
A draft for the theme is available here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1879450/Fedora/Fluxbox/fedora/theme.cfg
And a screenshot can be found here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1879450/Fedora/Fluxbox/fedora/1920x1200_fedora_fl...
Best regards,
Andreas
13 years, 6 months
Re: [Design-team] F13 Feature Profiles (first design bounty) and introduction
by Berryhill Daniel
Hey Jef, Here's the stuff I had worked on for the design-bounty. I made the realese-notes banner smaller so that all four corners would be rounded (instead of the two on the left being chopped off). The minibar allows for more content on subsequent pages. I only kept the "features" bubble from the four-Fs since this document is all about new features - but it wouldn't be a big deal to swap it out with anything. Finally, Mo had mentioned getting some screenshots on the document. I pulled a picture of the BFO from the fedora Wiki and added a "dramatic" angle and drop shadow. I hope this helps! Let me know if you need help getting different headers into your OOo document (it took me a little while to figure out!).
:Daniel
--- On Sat, 6/5/10, Jef van Schendel <jefvanschendel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: Jef van Schendel <jefvanschendel(a)gmail.com>
Subject: [Design-team] F13 Feature Profiles (first design bounty) and introduction
To: design-team(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010, 10:02 AM
Hi everyone,
I'm Jef (or Schendje on IRC and my new Fedora People account). I'm the one who wanted to give the first Fedora Design Bounty a shot as can be read here:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/fedora-design-bounty-f13-feature-p...
So I made a first mock-up (work in progress!) which can be found here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2061418/FedoraFeatureProfiles_mockup.7z
I included all the materials and sources I used. F13-feature-profiles_edit1.pdf is the main one, I also included an annotated version at F13-feature-profiles_edit1_notes.pdf.
Things I wondered about (besides the annotations):
- I follow a lot more of the Ubuntu world, and wasn't sure of any trademark designs Fedora uses. I quickly made a simple background, but have no idea if it fits with your brand. I used only the official Fedora colors though.
- How far I can go with the fancy-schmancy designs. I don't want to overdo it, because that would not only look bad but also get in the way of readability and such (mchua already pointed out the background might conflict with a black and white version, which is why blackWhiteTest.png is there).
- What's the final format I should design for? Will it be on paper, pdf, do I need to keep the margins for any printers, things like that?
I'd love to hear what you guys think. All comments/questions/remarks are welcome!
Jef
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F13 Feature Profiles (first design bounty) and introduction
by Jef van Schendel
Hi everyone,
I'm Jef (or Schendje on IRC and my new Fedora People account). I'm the one
who wanted to give the first Fedora Design Bounty a shot as can be read
here:
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/fedora-design-bounty-f13-feature-p...
So I made a first mock-up (work in progress!) which can be found here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2061418/FedoraFeatureProfiles_mockup.7z
I included all the materials and sources I used.
F13-feature-profiles_edit1.pdf is the main one, I also included an annotated
version at F13-feature-profiles_edit1_notes.pdf.
Things I wondered about (besides the annotations):
- I follow a lot more of the Ubuntu world, and wasn't sure of any trademark
designs Fedora uses. I quickly made a simple background, but have no idea if
it fits with your brand. I used only the official Fedora colors though.
- How far I can go with the fancy-schmancy designs. I don't want to overdo
it, because that would not only look bad but also get in the way of
readability and such (mchua already pointed out the background might
conflict with a black and white version, which is why blackWhiteTest.png is
there).
- What's the final format I should design for? Will it be on paper, pdf, do
I need to keep the margins for any printers, things like that?
I'd love to hear what you guys think. All comments/questions/remarks are
welcome!
Jef
13 years, 6 months
A Few Questions (from the new guy :)
by Berryhill Daniel
Hey guys!
I sat in on the meeting today and it was great. I also got a chance to check out the video nicubunu posted and the way you guys organize and run your group is awesome. I just had a few questions after the meeting I wanted to ask:
(1)Right now are we (as a group) primarily focused on designing wallpapers for the Alpha release of Laughlin? (And the alternate wallpapers too)
(2)If so, is there already an agreed-upon set of themes that we would like to focus on so that we aren't pulling in a hundred different directions (artistically speaking)?
(3)Is there a preferable format for these wallpapers? As in: are .svgs preferable to photos and edited pictures? Are we targeting a resolution or screen ratio or simply making a flexible image that can be adapted to a variety of settings?
Finally, I'm having a bit of trouble with the design service queue. It seems that almost everything, whether it is showing an owner or not, has already been worked on. Are there any simple (Quick & Easy) tasks I could work on? (The artwork wiki suggested that I could ask to be assigned a task, so here I am.) If there's nothing at the moment, that's quite alright, I'll happily work on the aforementioned wallpapers. :)
Anyways, thanks for letting me tag along with your merry band.
-Daniel Berryhill
13 years, 6 months
