Hi Helen, I'm CC'ing Robert (mray) the lead designer here, and posting this to the design email list (as it's relevant to anyone else working on design things). I stripped out unrelated bits from the quoted email thread.
On 08/29/2015 04:14 PM, Helen Lee wrote: > Thanks for links, the mockup looks very good. > > Just to clarify, all illustrations will feature Mimi and Eunice where > applicable, e.g. static/img/infographic.png and > static/img/intro/proprietary.png, replacing Stick Guy (sorry, I don't > know the character's name) with Mimi and Eunice? > > Do the illustrations have to be in vector or is raster okay as long as > source is included, e.g. GIMP-editable format with layers? > > Will colours be uniformly in the blue/green of the mockup? > > Helen > There's a level to which we want to get launched and any work that gets us there is welcome, but I certainly have the impression that in most cases SVG raster files are really preferred, but not to the extent that we would turn down contributed quality work just because it was done in GIMP. Yes, the design is a new direction, where my stick figures (no name, just me drawing stick figures) will be deprecated and we're embracing Mimi and Eunice all the way. That doesn't mean every illustration necessarily *has* to have Mimi and Eunice, but that's indeed the design goal, and no need to keep any stick figures. I don't know how dogmatically we'll stick to the color scheme, but yes, the new blue/green color scheme is the plan to have a consistent sort of design. I think there could be cases where other colors fit in appropriately, but that's a case-by-case basis. Besides colors, there are some other aspects of design principles we're formulating. We had this initial wireframe and scheme work done by some students: https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/blog/new-design-1 But we're not using that exactly as is. Robert has been taking that as a foundation to build what is the new design overall. I'm hoping he'll soon post a new blog article about going from what the students did to where we're at with his mock-up. Please note that the static/img/infographic.png file is long outdated. It's *almost* the same, but substantially different from the content we actually have on https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/intro The content there is *now* made of just several *separate* illustrations along with HTML so that the text can actually be recognized, translated, screen-read, and the page is responsive (looks different on mobile small screens). The SVG source files for the current illustrations are in the code for the site under static/img/intro/ So, indeed, we want to redo the whole intro page with the new design, although we may also adjust the messaging as we go (such as using the road emphasis I mentioned about toll-roads with billboards). But just updating the current illustrations to use Mimi and Eunice and the new color scheme and such could be a good iteration. Lots of work here to do, and Robert has done a lot of thinking about how to get everything just right. I love his work so far but also want to see us iterate and sketch and put up some improvements as we go rather than wait for perfection. Hope that's all clear! I hope also that others on the design list will see this and weigh in with thoughts, perhaps discuss collaborating on specific steps. Cheers, Aaron >> Yes, help with graphics / illustrations could be super valuable. Our >> lead designer is doing a great job, but is very busy and not able to get >> to everything he'd like to do. A quick hint of his design work in >> progress: >> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mray/Snowdrift-Design/master/mray%20website%20mockups%20/export15.png >> >> We're embracing Mimi and Eunice even more going forward (see Nina's >> original site http://mimiandeunice.com/ full of wonderful stuff. >> >> Anyway, I want help illustrating the concepts, particularly the ideas >> about public goods, like showing the idea of a clear public road vs what >> proprietary restrictions get us: toll roads covered in billboards. >> >> We have pages relevant to this stuff: >> https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/site-design >> and >> https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/illustration >> -- Aaron Wolf Snowdrift.coop <https://snowdrift.coop> _______________________________________________ Design mailing list [email protected] https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/design
