[Design-team] design-team Digest, Vol 35, Issue 15

Wed Mar 21 16:29:08 UTC 2012

The templates for flyers/posters ready to slightly modify and print is a
nice idea.

I don't know if fedora already have this kind of asset, but I consider that
would be useful for both.

I could help on that... if you allow me =).

2012/3/21 <design-team-request at lists.fedoraproject.org>

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>   1. Organizing our swag designs a little better (Máirín Duffy)
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>   3. Re: Organizing our swag designs a little better
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> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:53:51 -0400
> From: Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
> To: design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: [Design-team] Organizing our swag designs a little better
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> Hi folks,
>
> I think it would be good if we could make it easier for ambassadors to
> order swag. Right now, our assets are kind of all over the place. I put
> together a first stab at trying to organize some designs we've used
> before:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff
>
> Do you see any designs that are missing that we should have here? Do you
> have any ideas for new designs we could make that would be useful to
> ambassadors? Let's brainstorm and see what else might be useful?
>
> Some points:
>
> - These are for materials ambassadors order to be printed. Let's not
> worry about graphics or stuff you can print on a home printer, because I
> don't think those are as much as a problem for ambassadors.
>
> - Since they are for print, we'll need to make CMYK, embedded font /
> fonts-to-paths, print-ready PDFs available for the ambassadors to grab
> and send off to their vendors. (Common problems we've had with designs
> in the past is RGB instead of CMYK colors, and incorrect or old fonts)
>
> - Each design might have several different print files. For example, A-2
> has been printed on both Fedora pens and Fedora lanyards, and I think
> even tablecloths. Since different swag are different sizes, we'll need
> different print-ready artwork files - one per application - even if the
> design is basically the same.
>
> - Any designs that use MgModata (besides the FUDcon logotype) should use
> Comfortaa now, I updated the ones I could.
>
> I'm going to send the ambassadors a similar email to see if what is here
> so far works and to see if there is anything else they think they might
> need. Maybe a blog post too :)
>
> Thanks,
> ~m
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:08:07 -0700
> From: Robyn Bergeron <rbergero at redhat.com>
> To: design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Organizing our swag designs a little better
> Message-ID: <4F6929F7.8070700 at redhat.com>
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> On 03/20/2012 02:53 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I think it would be good if we could make it easier for ambassadors to
> > order swag. Right now, our assets are kind of all over the place. I put
> > together a first stab at trying to organize some designs we've used
> > before:
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff
> >
> > Do you see any designs that are missing that we should have here? Do you
> > have any ideas for new designs we could make that would be useful to
> > ambassadors? Let's brainstorm and see what else might be useful?
> >
> > Some points:
> >
> > - These are for materials ambassadors order to be printed. Let's not
> > worry about graphics or stuff you can print on a home printer, because I
> > don't think those are as much as a problem for ambassadors.
> >
> > - Since they are for print, we'll need to make CMYK, embedded font /
> > fonts-to-paths, print-ready PDFs available for the ambassadors to grab
> > and send off to their vendors. (Common problems we've had with designs
> > in the past is RGB instead of CMYK colors, and incorrect or old fonts)
> >
> > - Each design might have several different print files. For example, A-2
> > has been printed on both Fedora pens and Fedora lanyards, and I think
> > even tablecloths. Since different swag are different sizes, we'll need
> > different print-ready artwork files - one per application - even if the
> > design is basically the same.
> >
> > - Any designs that use MgModata (besides the FUDcon logotype) should use
> > Comfortaa now, I updated the ones I could.
> >
> > I'm going to send the ambassadors a similar email to see if what is here
> > so far works and to see if there is anything else they think they might
> > need. Maybe a blog post too :)
> +487, excellent excellent idea.
>
> A few additional thoughts:
>
> * Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
> vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling
> overwhelmed.
>
> * Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give
> out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or
> at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure
> that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world,
> since not everyone uses the same type of paper.
>
> Will keep thinking on this... I'm sure I may have other ideas.
>
> Thanks for tackling this, Mo! :)
>
> -Robyn
>
> > Thanks,
> > ~m
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:19:44 -0700
> From: Luya Tshimbalanga <luya at fedoraproject.org>
> To: Fedora Design Team <design-team at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Design-team] Organizing our swag designs a little better
> Message-ID: <4F692CB0.1020006 at fedoraproject.org>
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> On Tue 20 Mar 2012 06:08:07 PM PDT, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> > * Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
> > vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling
> > overwhelmed.
>
> In summary, RGB (Red Green Blue combinated) is an addictive colour
> model of the light on which a combination of RGB makes white displayed
> on screen from TV to your average cellphone while CMYK (Cyan Magenta
> Yellow Key - in black -) is a subtractive colour model on which the
> combination is black found on materials like ink and paint. Hope that
> helps.
>
> --
> Luya Tshimbalanga
> Graphic & Web Designer
> E: luya at fedoraproject.org
> W: http://www.coolest-storm.net
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