Re: [gNewSense-art] gNewSense complete theme revision idea

[Luis Felipe Lopez Acevedo]

El mié, 23-09-2009 a las 23:32 -0400, Forest Purnell escribió:
> Hi Everybody! My name is Forest. I'm new to this mailing list, and just 
> wanted to add a couple 
> comments.
> 

Hi!

> With all due respect to Frederique's logo idea, I disagree with it. In my 
> opinion, the 
> gNewSense logo should evoke ideas like equality, efficiency, community, 
> transparency, and 
> freedom to choose. This is why I like the idea of a tree. Trees belong to a 
> complex, 
> interdependent community of life in which waste is minimized by the very 
> principles of the 
> system. This, to me, also describes the nature of free software. It is true 
> that free software 
> can be "powerful," but if we're just talking about the end-user experience, 
> the same could be 
> said for a lot of proprietary software. The real strength of free software to 
> me is the 
> potential control it gives people over the tools they work with, the sense of 
> common ownership 
> of those tools, and all of the material and functional benefits that result 
> from those two things.
> 
> That said, I agree the logo right now isn't pretty. Perhaps some master logo 
> designer can 
> spend a few hours being a digital bonsai artist and share the results. 
> 

I'd like the logo to be attractive both in appearance and meaning. I
could try to design a new logo but, as far as I know, there are no
master artists in the team :) and the new tree could end looking as a
paint splash when used in small sizes (trees are tricky).

> I'm also wondering if gNewSense has any official color(s) at this point, like 
> how Ubuntu has 
> that reddish-brown, or SuSe has green and blue. It would be helpful to pin 
> those down before 
> any themes or logos get made.
> 

No, there's no official color palette. When I do some artwork, I take
the current desktop theme colors as a base (as I did for the website).

I made a set of themes and other artwork called NuevoSentido[1] in which
I propose a new look for gNewSense. This theme includes a modification
of the original logo and a consistent color palette (or so I think).
But this theme is not official.


1. http://wiki.gnewsense.org/ArtworkProjects/NuevoSentido