OK, I'll break the ice. *beautiful*. *stunning*. *creative*. *elegant*. *attractive*. *informative*.
I would change a few details though - the most important of which being the logo. you want to show continuity from the previous years. Changing the font / writing is OK IMO, but I would keep the same splash of ink (in new color) as in the past years. And I would slightly desaturate the yellow. my 2 cents Yuv Alexandre Leray wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
