Hi Design Friends, In the last email I was inspired by the project name Laughlin and the phrase ' The whole is more than the sum of its parts.' I saw this as an opportunity to push the visual concept of cut and paste. Replication of the same simple shape to make a very complex design. How far can you push it. Something as simple as a line can be pushed pretty far. Here are some links: http://ffffound.com/image/f66c6f2b56f058f65f07de831ff41764c7a9d726 http://ffffound.com/image/40a9d9f63206e3a4b2f6b095431fd1727070f0fe http://ffffound.com/image/f07eeae06727922c461a1a28f01f7e197fcc21d6 http://www.justinmaller.com/showcase.html (more or less) http://ffffound.com/image/3c4689564b36a005b824a992e685a6651d19ad31 (more or less) The cut and paste concept would work with any shape. I am going to just take a simple line and push it. I did a pencil concept sketch for a line illustration idea I had. Anyone is welcome to pursue it with me. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F14_Artwork_Theme_Concepts There are a lot of great inspirational resources out there I use that are available to you. http://ffffound.com/ http://www.behance.net/ http://www.cpluv.com/ Hope this helped with some inspiration! Kyle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Máirín Duffy" <duffy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 2:59:42 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Design-team] Concepts for F14 > > As for the deadline, AFAIK we have not yet the dates set, so it will be > > announced later, but it will probably be some time before Alpha > > (probably something between 1 and 3 weeks before Alpha freeze to give us > > enough time to decide on a final concept, to put it in enough shape for > > alpha and to package it). One of the suggestions for visualizing the theme for Laughlin was, "Something that can illustrate the emergence concept, like multiple objects combined to create a new one (more complex). " The work of Robert Laughlin, who "was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. Moreover he argues for emergence which is a concept that says 'The whole is more than the sum of its parts.' Fedora is more than the sum of its software." Visually I think this concept could make a nice theme. It could be cool to use objects or phenomena from nature to illustrate it. e.g., many drops of water making a stream or whatnot. Do you have any ideas on how we might visualize this? BTW Tatica put together some mockups around a atomic theme: http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Themes/F14/ I think the backdrop of atomos.svg is nice - with a bit of tweaking it could make a nice abstract pattern. ~m _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list design-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
