[Design-team] Wallpaper proposal: mosaic glow

[Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira]

Em 28-07-2009 14:39, Máirín Duffy escreveu:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 14:34 -0300, Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira wrote:
>> The wallpaper must have a icon that represents the name, I guess.
>
> Actually we have no such rule for the artwork.

Yes I know, but it helps to create a visual identity for the release. 
With it we can create a Media Art, Web Banners using the same concept.

>> Like the "Constantine I" statue, Pilar or gate proposed by Jayme or the
>> Lion proposed for Fedora 11 by Samuele.
>
> If you must associate the wallpaper with a noun (which I think is bad
> practice) it is very clearly a mosaic, so you could say "Mosaic."

Humm. IMHO it's important and is a good practice

We dont have a theme for each Fedora Release or bi desktop changes, so, 
we need to stamp the Fedora release name in the Wallpaper using a 
visible concept/icon.

>> I'm not a artwork specialist, these are my comments based in
>> conversations with brazilian users about the Fedora 11 wallpaper.
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>> This proposal is very abstract and the relationship with the name is
>> very subliminal.
>
> Totally the intention!
>
> `M


My US$0,02

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Rodrigo Padula de Oliveira
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