Was wondering if anybody had thoughts about this - I put a bit of work into it and haven't gotten any feedback yet! :)
If it sucks let me know. ~m On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 20:09 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote: > On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 17:46 -0500, Michael Beckwith wrote: > > Keep in mind everyone that just because the codename is "Constantine" > > doesn't mean that we HAVE to include the guy in the theme somehow. We > > can go off on some inspiration derived from reading about him and > > whatnot and just make sure the tie in is there. > > I found some inspiration in W.B. Yeats' 'Sailing to Byzantium' [1]. > There are some interesting themes in there (and even a link to steam... > er.. byzantine-punk). I'll just throw these out there; they may all suck > but crappy ideas can inspire awesome ideas so if they inspire something > in you let's talk about it: > > - Mortality vs Immortality - Byzantine art & culture flourished over > 1000 years (330-1453) and is still known of today - We can relate this > to Fedora - Fedora does not try to only look 'cool' on the surface and > not have much substance underneath; Fedora is very concerned about > quality and doing the right thing. Fedora hopefully is at the forefront > of promoting a culture/philosophy and producing a quality system that > will bring order and the right way forward. A few ideas on representing > this: have a simple & transparent (or not quite drawn-in) subject grow > in complexity & depth and become more opaque maybe. Or go from weak to > saturated colors and/or values. The message would be along the lines of > Fedora's hopeful grasp towards greatness/eternity. > > - The natural/impermanent/imperfect vs. technology/permanent/perfect - > building on the above theme... Yeats makes reference to Byzantine > Emperor Theophilos' singing mechanical golden birds (he also had > mechanical golden lions as well, hmmm... :) ) I feel like themes that > deal with technology vs nature usually pose technology in the 'bad guy' > light and nature in the 'good guy' light, so it might be interesting to > send a message that poses technology (Fedora) as an ally of nature (the > people using Fedora) to make it better (to improve Fedora users' lives). > Visually this could maybe take a steampunk bird form hehe. > > - Order from Chaos - Constantine was known for bringing order to the > chaos of the Roman empire at the time he began rule and Constantinople > seems to have served as a central hub / symbol of that order. Perhaps > Fedora is the Constantinople to the chaos of crappy, proprietary > software. The message would be that open source software is inevitable > and is the way forward to order and progress. > > - Liberation through enlightenment - '... Consume my heart away; sick > with desire... gather me Into the artifice of eternity.' Liberation of > the soul from worldly desires... liberation of the software and more > generally culture from worldly desires...? worldly desires = closed > firmware and patented codecs? hehe > > - Unity/Coming together to make something great - and could quite easily > be communicated with the golden mosaic designs already being discussed - > alone one tile is nothing special, but the tiles together can make a > beautiful piece of art. Along similar lines, Constantinople itself was a > trading center where many cultures intersected. > > ~m > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_to_Byzantium > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team > _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
