new designer

[Ashlyn Knox]

Hello,

My name is Ashlyn Knox, I'm a fedora user of about 5 years now and I'm
currently taking next steps by reaching out to become an active member of
the fedora community.

I am excited to learn more about the work that the design team is doing and
hopefully be able to work on design projects as well. I've always been a
fan of fedora's aesthetic and design sensibilities.

Over the past 3 years I have done a variety of freelance design jobs
including event advertisements, logo design, web design, document layouts,
and image editing. I work in inkscape, gimp, and scribus.

Thank you for taking the time to read my email, I look forward to hearing
back and learning more about what's going on via the email list!

Cheers,
Ashlyn

[Justin W. Flory (he/him)]

On 7/30/20 6:19 AM, Ashlyn Knox wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Ashlyn Knox, I'm a fedora user of about 5 years now and I'm
> currently taking next steps by reaching out to become an active member
> of the fedora community.
>
> I am excited to learn more about the work that the design team is doing
> and hopefully be able to work on design projects as well. I've always
> been a fan of fedora's aesthetic and design sensibilities.
>
> Over the past 3 years I have done a variety of freelance design jobs
> including event advertisements, logo design, web design, document
> layouts, and image editing. I work in inkscape, gimp, and scribus.
>
> Thank you for taking the time to read my email, I look forward to
> hearing back and learning more about what's going on via the email list!

Hi Ashlyn, welcome to the Design Team mailing list, and welcome to the
Fedora Project community. :)

I'm not hands-on with the Design Team, so another member can offer some
pointers on how to get started or any tasks that need some community
help. You may also want to join either the IRC/Matrix room or the
Telegram group as well!

#fedora-design on Freenode IRC
https://t.me/fedoradesign on Telegram

See you around! :)

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Ashlyn!
Ar 7/30/20 6:19 AM, scríobh Ashlyn Knox:
> My name is Ashlyn Knox, I'm a fedora user of about 5 years now and I'm 
> currently taking next steps by reaching out to become an active member 
> of the fedora community. I am excited to learn more about the work 
> that the design team is doing and hopefully be able to work on design 
> projects as well. I've always been a fan of fedora's aesthetic and 
> design sensibilities.

Wow, this is fantastic to hear, glad to hear from another long-time user 
interested in design!!
> Over the past 3 years I have done a variety of freelance design jobs 
> including event advertisements, logo design, web design, document 
> layouts, and image editing. I work in inkscape, gimp, and scribus.

Fabulous! It sounds like you have some great experience to succeed on 
our team!

Right now our major effort is getting two release wallpapers out at the 
same time, for Fedora 33 and Fedora 34. We have our inspiration for each 
set out:

Fedora 33:
Walter Lincoln Hawkins
An American chemist and engineer widely regarded as a pioneer of polymer 
chemistry. For thirty-four years he worked at Bell Laboratories, where 
he was instrumental in designing long-lasting plastic to sheath 
telephone cables, enabling the introduction of telephone services to 
thousands of Americans, especially those in rural communities.

Fedora 34:
Ub Iwerks

In 1933, former Walt Disney Studios animator/director Ub Iwerks invented 
the first multiplane camera using movable layers of flat artwork in 
front of a horizontal camera using parts from an old Chevrolet 
automobile.[2] His multiplane camera was used in a number of the Iwerks 
Studio's Willie Whopper and Comicolor cartoons of the mid-1930s.

You are most welcome to join either/both of those efforts. Right now, 
with our inspiration set for each release, we're in the messy early 
brainstorming stage to try to figure out effective visuals for each 
design, so as many folks as possible contributing ideas, sketches, 
concepts is ideal right now. Here are the tickets where that work is 
just beginning:

Fedora 33: https://pagure.io/design/issue/687

Fedora 34: https://pagure.io/design/issue/688

We are also going to have an online live hackfest sessions for working 
on these designs the weekend of Aug 7-8-9, most likely on the Saturday 
or the Sunday. We don't have a time block scheduled yet. It's part of 
the Fedora Flock Nest conference (flocktofedora.org.) When we get a 
date/time I'll be mailing this list with the details and I hope to see 
you there :)

Cheers,
~m