-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/2009 10:28 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Luya, > > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 15:34 -0800, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote: >> rking on F12 artwork. As you have read my discussion with Bill, I >> included minimum requirement as template. There are some tweaking like >> visible Fedora logo and some layouts. >> In addition, I am planning to add Fudcon logo (need the source svg >> version) to match the event. > > I took 4 hours today to finalize the sleeve and label designs since I've > been asked by a number of people where they are, and that they need them > yesterday (sigh.) > Wow, thank you for completing the design. > First I wanted to point at the finalized artwork: > > Fedora wiki: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F12 > > Design team shared drive: > http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Resources/Fedora%20Release% > 20Themes/F12/Media%20Artwork/ > > I would also like to outline the changes I made to the sleeves, Luya, > for your own reference so you understand why I made them: > > - I think adding minimum requirements to the sleeve is great. After > talking with Chris Lumens and Bill Nottingham in IRC this morning, > though, it turns out that the text-only requirement was really meant for > text-only anaconda, and that text-only anaconda isn't really supported > at all. So we all agreed to drop the text-only requirement as we would > rather not people go through text-only Fedora for the best experience. > (And if someone really needs to they are expert enough to not need the > line of information on the sleeve. They know where to find out.) > I was surprised that detail was not included on previous sleeve release and nobody complained about it. Dropping text-only requirement is logical as well. > - The background in your mockups was squished vertically which looked a > little odd. When I tried to stretch it back out, there was not enough > contrast to have a Fedora logo on the back. So I removed the Fedora logo > on the back, but then I had trouble placing it on the front. The large > 12 and the Fedora logo competed for attention. I initially thought using white glow around symbol but your approach is better. > - I didn't like the alignment of the large 12 with the text - 'Install > DVD' for example wass aligned to the bottom part of the '1', but > 'Fedora' is aligned to the top of the '1' so there's a weird diagonal > alignment going on that looked a little awkward. > > - I decided to drop the large '12' in favor of a smaller one, so the > Fedora logo wasn't competing with it and so the alignment of everything > was a little bit neater. I just realized that but you have beaten me on that one. =) > > - I matched the architecture lines on the front and back of the sleeve > so now they read exactly the same. > > - I converted the 'join.fpo' and 'install dvd' etc text from paths back > to real text so in the future we can use the same template for the > sleeve. > > - There were quite a few empty / stray polygons and text boxes in the > file. They gave rendering errors when I tried to export to PDF. I > removed them, and labeled all of the objects in the file for easy > reference (a directory of objects by name is available in the Scribus > 'outline' dialog as I learned) > Excellent. - -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx W: http://www.thefinalzone.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr8j/wACgkQaS6HaNQHFTlWVQCfcW3RUcivF2KNVK7Nk79rkSYt 6ZAAn2MOlDvS66+RRF7UDlcujD5pl+wy =BTlA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
