Dear Create members, OSP and myself are happy to finally present you our proposal for a logo and new website for LGM 2010.
The logo is here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/logo/ The site is visible at this temporary address: http://lgm.alexandreleray.com/ Our main design concern was about how to represent digital tools in their diversity, from Desktop Publishing to 3D modeling, from typography to batch processing etc., showing by this means the multiplicity of the projects gathered at the Libre Graphics Meeting. This is the role assigned to the background, a static SVG composition of some of the most significant digital tools from the libre projects. This background, present on all the pages, zooms and pans randomly on each page loading, thanks to a small javascript. This gives to the readers unexpected exploration of the territories of that "map of creative tools". A javascript free version of this SVG file is visible for demo purpose at: http://lgm.alexandreleray.com/static/css/background-fixe.svg We for sure forgot a lot of tools (we are familiar with only a small part of them) so all suggestions are welcome! The logo is a play with the M of Meeting, shifting between 2D and 3D perception; between static and movement. 3 squares for a flag. A flag for a meeting. A flag for a place, and for a space. A typographic flag for an italic M. 3 squares for pixels. 15 degrees rotated squares for vectors. 3 squares of progressive sizes to evoque movement. 3 sizes overlapping for 3D optical effect. 3 windows floating. The typeface used, is OSP-DIN. As the background is very present, we decided to base mainly the website on text. It is set with Dave Crossland's open typeface Cantarell, available for download at Open Font Library. This humanist sans-serif font was designed for on screen reading therefore it is very legible even on small sizes. This choice was made to promote the Open Font Library, the GPL and Fontforge with which was made the font, but also the new @font-face CSS rules newly (re-)introduced in Firefox 3.5 (among other web browsers). Not to mention that Dave is a very active Create member and a professional type designer. We picked up the yellow color as a way to keep the foreground legible. The latter is made of two colors, a navy blue and a brown, to differentiate two levels of information. We also decided to "mute" the partners logos by converting them to a single color in order to keep the whole homogeneous. The 'donate' square would be live-updated as funds are added; there should be a subscription form, and probably other pages added etc. for this we will use the code a.l.e. developed for already for earlier LGM sites. We hope you'll like our proposal; even if it is quite a bit different than before ;-) We're looking forward to hear your response/suggestions/improvements (for example on the SVG coding, done by hand for weight purpose)! All the best, Alexandre + OSP _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
