Very interesting! That does help thanks! Its funny how Fedora's style tends to be cold and clean - when the main difference between Fedora and other distros is the warmth and life of the community!! :)
I think I'll switch to a Les Paul and try with some compression and echo to make a water-ey/galactic sound. Might work better? Will resubmit sometime on Sunday. Thanks chaps! :) Tom On 21 Jan 2011 15:56, "Máirín Duffy" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 15:23 +0000, Tom medhurst wrote: > >> Any pointers as to what sound you would think would fit Fedora best? I >> am pretty new here, so not the best person to make that call.. >> I remember that Yahoo! used to use a banjo (I have one of those too - >> and a mandolin), and eBay once used a track from Feist, so I thought >> the acoustic sound might go well, it should give it a homely, >> down-to-Earth sound? > > Well, that I'm honestly not so sure about! I mean, maybe we can tell you > a bit about the qualities of Fedora and you can help us figure out what > kind of sound it would need with your expertise. Here's the set of > wallpapers we've had over the years... the wallpapers since Fedora 10 > might be the best to focus on: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Wallpapers > > We tend to have wallpapers that are cool/cold, clean, related to water > or space, blue. We tend to use curved elements as accents in a lot of > our design work; eg a curved corner or two on a box, or the speech > bubble element from our logo - see the four foundations graphics towards > the bottom for an example: http://fedoraproject.org/en/about-fedora > > If Fedora was a person I think it'd be described as an older-brother > type, very knowledgeable, technically talented/skilled, but also quiet > and not so trendy... friendly and family-oriented, but not overly > outgoing or exuberant or excitable. Definitely not lonely. > > Does that kind of description and the artwork samples maybe help give > you an idea of the kind of sound we should do? I'm not sure > homely/down-to-Earth is exactly right... that kind of makes me think of > a traditional log cabin in the mountains in the woods? Maybe it'd be > more like this: > http://www.greenpacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/re-cover-house-amagansett-long-island-1.jpg > > ~m > > > _______________________________________________ > design-team mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
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