Re: [gNewSense-art] Artwork proposal updated

[Graziano Sorbaioli]

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Sam Geeraerts wrote:

> As I already said, it's looks great. Don't let the following remarks
> make you think otherwise. :)

Yes it's really worth to become the our 2.2 main theme ;)


> * nuevo_sentido-logo:

Agree.
Let's work to make it scalable.



> * nuevo_sentido-meaning:

> The strength of this text is that it
> associates gNewSense and free software with positive thoughts and
> carefree living.

Agree.
We need to find new path everyday to convince all the "folks" to defend
their freedom and it's a lot easier when they see a relaxing beautiful
graphic because most of them are non-technical people and don't care
about specifications.

This is why the work of this list is VERY IMPORTANT to achieve freedom. :)


> * Background: I like my desktop background to be out of the way, so I
> vote for the background-tree one, because the logo is too distracting.

Agree. I prefer that one too but we need more and more wallpapers.
Every os comes with a lot of wallpapers and people like the choice so
let's create more of them!


> * Start here icon:
> - Black and white squares: doesn't seem like it fits with the rest of
> the theme
> - Current (plain) logo: if you're going to change the logo, go all the
> way and throw the previous one out
> - Current modified logo: looks better than our current 'rendering' of
> the logo and I wouldn't be against cherrypicking that to use in our
> current artwork. But again, if you're changing, go all the way.


Agree.
I like the third more colorful one the most.
It's wonderful and fits greatly in the theme.
Maybe we should have green 3d icons too instead of the 3d orange ones
that don't fit very well in a green-based theme.



> * Splash screen: I like it a lot in itself. It has this whole
> path-to-freedom thing going on. Even made me think about the Wizard of
> Oz a bit (although that's probably not relevant). But this one also
> feels a bit off (though not as much as the start here icon). The rest of
> the artwork is all very slick and kind of savannah/Africa-themed, while
> this one is grainy with flowerbeds.


Agree.
I watched it again and I like it.
To me it doesn't need any modifications.



> In conclusion: you're definitely on to something here and a bit of
> tweaking would make it even better.

Agree.


> 
> Some other thoughts: maybe the artwork team would do good to discuss a
> general and specific direction. I mean, a tree seems to be the gNewSense
> thing, so you could pick one kind of tree (real of fictional, e.g.
> sirgazil's nuevo sentido tree) and some general keywords (e.g. freedom,
> new sense, ...) and have that as the base for all the artwork. Then you
> differentiate that further (e.g. Africa, savannah, ...) for every new
> major release (and maybe even further but to a lesser degree for minor
> releases (e.g. lions, elephants, slick, grainy). I know that artists
> like their artistic freedom, but setting some boundaries to work in
> brings focus into the project which probably leads to higher quality and
> more consistent results.


Interesting thought.
I agree.
Just as Ubuntu has its own naming convention and animal-related images,
we should follow that idea but with trees or something like that.
Maintain a continuity if you understand what I mean.


Let's work together to make it even better.

I know an italian girl that is a good artist but she only speak italian.
I hope to convince her to join the italian gNewSense mailing list so she
could work (with my translation help) with this group.

Let's make gNewSense the best artistic distribution of all!

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Graziano Sorbaioli -- www.sorbaioli.org
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