On Sunday 09 April 2006 17:26, Máirín Duffy <duffy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Patrick W. Barnes wrote: > > The CDArt page contains community submissions. They have not been deemed > > official by anyone. There are actually quite a few different ideas > > floating around that have been created due to the "official" artwork not > > being available. I think a goal of the Artwork team should be the > > collection of the different ideas and nomination of a select few to be > > the official piece. Those nominees could then be opened for review and > > voted upon. > > From an earlier thread about this on : > > 'The Distribution page of the wiki says "There is no standard regarding the > preparation of media or packaging." ' > > Can we actually have 'official' CD art then? Or just 'official' > suggestions?? Our options are open. Our 'official' selection would most likely be a suggestion. As long as we label one selection as 'official', most vendors and individual distributors will use that selection, and the standardization will help to give the appearance of a coherent community. Those who cannot use the official artwork would still be able to use simpler labelling. Not everyone will be able to print full-color CD labels, so I don't want to prevent them from producing media. > > Also, I recommend not having a open vote.... I've been burned by this in > the past - it's a pain to control for cheating (which unfortunately > happens), and in the end, 'design by open committee' tends to be a lot > lower quality than 'design by a knowledgable few' We can discuss how wide we want to open the process. We will need to have a reasonable scope to cover all interests. In addition to the Artwork team, we should at least include the Distribution team and a small selection from the Marketing team. Having the Artwork team select the nominees will make the vote a lot less painful, but closing the vote to just the Artwork team may leave us with a selection that nobody wants to use. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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