Weird, I thought I'd have subscribed to the design list. Seems as if I have cancelled the subscription by accident. And I wondered why noone works on this stuff ^^. Thanks Bernhard!
2011/2/17 Bernhard Dippold <[email protected]> > Hi Joey, all! > > You're totally that we want to go on with the Community Design. > > But this will happen on the design list, not on marketing. > > So please: everybody interested in this task: Join our Design Team. > > The Kick-Off for the Design Team has reached it's third step: Introduction > of the Team Members: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Kick-Off#Step_3:_Introduction_of_the_Team_Members > > The Community Design is one of the main points in Step 7 - probably to be > started in a few weeks, while the steps in-between are necessary to be > solved before. > > CC'ing the design list, so the people there are aware of this mail... > > Best regards > > Bernhard > > (for the design list I keep the full quote) > > > Johannes Bausch schrieb: > > Hey folks, >> >> as far as I have followed the development so far it seems that both logo >> and >> icons (which make the gross of our branding) for the current release (3.3) >> have been used quite extensively and seem to be the ones we will settle on >> in the long run. I still want to share some thoughts about that. >> >> 1. What happened to the community branding? As the current logo has been >> used so much, I must say that I want to speak *against* changing it again. >> 2. The wiki branding site is still full of ideas for logos, mascots, icons >> etc. and it seems as if nothing is decided yet. And this is the official >> position, isn't it? Having said that, I'd like to encourage you (us) to >> somehow finalize the branding. There are so many great artists (see the >> wallpaper renders of the icons) who use, yes, which drafts? - The official >> one? The ones they like most? - for their work. I think it would be better >> if we had a clear decision regarding branding, and that as soon as >> possible. >> 3. There is no central place to look for resources (yes, since we haven't >> decided upon an official version yet, I begin to repeat myself). The >> wallpaper renders, for example, where are the source files for these >> icons? >> They look like Bernhard's, but even better. *They *should be the ones used >> in the application. >> >> Now some minor issues which I still don't like about the current >> "official" >> files. >> 1. The "LibreOffice" still has no proper ligatures. From a typographic >> point >> of view the text looks cheap. >> 2. There is no proper spacing/connection between logo and logo text: >> http://tinyurl.com/6kt8n8q >> For me logo and text look like two distinct parts. There are several >> reasons >> for this. The edges on the logo are rounded while the text has sharp ones. >> The lines of text and logo are not the same width. >> 3. I don't like the emboss effect on the "contemporary color" version >> (while >> this might be my personal opinion, I still want you to consider that for a >> second. In my eyes it just looks like a cheap gimp filter added to the >> normal version). >> >> As far as I can remember, we thought about starting work on the official >> branding after 3.3 is released. I am willing to spend some time on this >> issue over the next few months, but only if we can decide upon a goal in >> this discussion. >> >> Thanks, >> Joey >> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/marketing/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
