Hullo Design!
It's open-season on the Motif. *We have hit the week-long
(business-week) Design phase!*
So get your preferred tool of awesome-vector-creation out, whether that
is Inkscape, Illustrator or even pencil+paper (not so scalable =).
Here is a summary of the ideas resulting from the brainstorming phase;
* History
* Revival
* People / Community
* Imagination / Creativity
* Possibility
* Freedom
* Openness
* Security
* Individuality
* Professionalism
* Others are listed in more general descriptions on the motif page
Here is what our branding specifies;
* Clean
* Balanced
* Friendly
Recommended visual tools;
* Colour
* Pattern
* Shape
* (I would add: texture)
So we have ideas and concepts, *It's time to Design!*
* Pick a concept you'd like to convey and, while adhering to the
branding, create a first draft of your motif.
* Upload it to the Wiki page
(http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Motif) under the new
"Motif proposals" section (bottom of page).
* Add a preview image (jpeg/gif/png) if possible (svg preview is
quite bad).
* Explain what you were aiming to do with the Design, or more
importantly, what it communicates.
* If possible, please provide a preview of how the Design would look
in context: it should be the same context to keep everything
consistent.*
So the context should be: An A4-size letterhead for LibreOffice*
(210mmx297mm). This is so you don't have to worry about creating
content.
And you can add this letterhead-info to make your life easier;
Name Surnameson
123 Roadly drive, Suburbia
SinCity, Countria. 54321
Tel: 9876 54321 Fax: 9876 54322
Email: [email protected]
Just add the logo somewhere on the letterhead too and your Design motif
somewhere on the page.
You can fill the page with Lorem Ipsum dummy-text
(http://lipsum.lipsum.com/) to add realism.
Head over to this page for more information:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Motif
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On 3/6/2011 10:32 AM, Christoph Noack wrote:
Hi Nik!
Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 03:33 +1100 schrieb Nik:
Hi Design!
2 more days to go until the "brainstorming" of motif ideas is over and
we begin design proposals (on Monday).
Head over to this page for more information;
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Motif
I still try to figure out how to catch up with some of the older
tasks ... if I won't manage that (well), I'll simply upload what I have
tomorrow evening (my time).
On 2/28/2011 10:45 AM, Christoph Noack wrote:
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Am Sonntag, den 27.02.2011, 22:36 +0100 schrieb Bernhard Dippold:
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http://luxate.blogspot.com/2010/11/libreoffice-33-artwork-improvements.html
I'm glad to include these on the page, but we should expect that these
previous elements will have no significant bearing on the Motif
yet-to-be-designed.
I don't like carrying-over elements just because they have been used, I
think it would be better to craft new elements from scratch with clear
purpose+intentions+context from the beginning.
True, but I hope that gives an impression what we've used so far - maybe
it is inspiring - maybe not :-) I still like it somehow, since the
show-to-the-upper-right triangle (whether it is varied in size, color,
position) is still a strong link to the Document Symbol.
Hi Christoph,
I think the triangle is great, but to continue to use it in exactly the
same way as in the logo, I think that would be a mistake.
It seems too obvious and repetitive (not in a consistent way, but in a
tiring way) to use it in many places.
And adding more clipped top-right corners and floating triangles will
reduce the impact of the current logo's appeal.
But that is just my opinion, obviously no-one is restricted from
creating whatever motif they want to propose!
And,
personally, it does have some meaning for me (progress, freedom,
direction, guidance).
See you tomorrow ...
Cheers,
Christoph
*C'mon crew, let's drop some jaws! =)*
-Nik
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