Hi Christine, *
Christine Louise Beems schrieb:
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Please take a look at http://www.gozarks.com/ooo/ where I have posted an
illustration and some comments about overarching design strategy which
should perhaps be factored-in before the graphic styling for the inserts
is developed.
I agree with you, that the first step should be a consistent graphical
basis for all the marketing materials, websites, official documentation etc.
There is some work being done to improve OpenOffice.org's visual
identity in order to achieve a strong corporate branding.
Please have a look at
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Design_Artwork_and_Branding_Project_Proposal
and perhaps the corresponding thread on the Art list:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=art&by=thread&from=2311531
If you are interested in that topic, feel free to add yourself to the
list at the bottom of the wiki page.
With regard to your illustration:
You used the graphical elements from from OpenOffice.org 2: The gradient
in OOo3 is different, the icons have been updated as well in color as in
style.
Your proposed modification to the logo (replace the black color by white
with blue borders to improve the feeling of openness) is reasonable and
will be taken into account when we start working on an update to the
logo. Personally I don't think that the gradient in the gulls fits very
well to the impression of the rest of the logo, but this feeling might
change.
I don't know if you modified the blue tone of the logo on purpose - it
doesn't really fit to the blue of the background gradient that keeps the
present logo color (RGB 6,52,140).
The Art Project tried to provide the graphical elements from OOo3 on
this wiki page:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Art/OOo3_Design, but this page
doesn't contain the icons (and the colored balls are still in OOo2
colors as in the splash screen).
If you want to use the OOo3 icons, please use the one provided here:
http://ui.openoffice.org/nonav/VisualDesign/OOo30MimeType.html
I think that the efforts of the group interested in a common OOo
branding will lead to an updated graphical basis in some months I
suppose. But for the meantime we should use the present OOo3 elements IMHO.
Best regards
Bernhard
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