Re: Any designers in the house?
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: All; I've worked up final copies of the eight different logos here. Sorry I dropped the ball and didn't finish in time for OSCON (this week's been crazy). http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ Looks good, thanks! If no-one beats me to it, I'll update http://www.apache.org/events/ with the logos for ACEU (current-event-*) and ACNA (next-event-*) We can then display the logos on http://www.apache.org/events/, http://www.apachecon.com/, and have http://www.apachecon.eu/ updated with the new logo. Finally, we've a draft reminder announcement for PMCs due to go out around now. All being well, we could expand that to be both a CFP reminder and a request to add the logos + conference details to PMC websites to help promote them. If someone has time, please update the draft announcement on the wiki with this! Cheers Nick
Re: Any designers in the house?
On 7/17/2012 6:48 AM, Nick Burch wrote: I think with, using a similar thing for ACNA in mind, we might be best off using 9+11. Don't suppose you'd be able to knock up a quick ACNA version? People could then use that as part of the poster/sign/thingy for the OSCON booth :) And it'd let us double check how things look. Is everyone else happy with Daniel's lovely designs? Anyone spot a reason why we shouldn't update the images at http://www.apache.org/events/ with these, and ask PMCs to put the new versions up? Cheers Nick All; I've worked up final copies of the eight different logos here. Sorry I dropped the ball and didn't finish in time for OSCON (this week's been crazy). http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ I must admit, I don't have much skill with vector graphics and failed miserably at Inkscape. Looking into it, the trace utility only tends to work on black and white images. I did find an online service (http://vectormagic.com/) that can do this conversion. I tested it out and the results were fantastic, but it does come at a modest cost (about 23 USD) for a minimum 3 month subscription. If we feel strongly about having vector graphics, I will sign up at my own cost and generate all eight in SVG format. -- Daniel Ruggeri
Re: Any designers in the house?
If there's any trouble turning it into SVG, I'd be happy to lend a hand at converting it, sprucing it up, whatever is required. With regards, Daniel.
Re: Any designers in the house?
If you are going to use Inkscape, you could try to vectorize one of your existing bitmaps using Inkscape to see whether they could be easily imported that way. Cheers Daniel On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Daniel Ruggeri drugg...@primary.net wrote: On 7/17/2012 6:48 AM, Nick Burch wrote: I think with, using a similar thing for ACNA in mind, we might be best off using 9+11. Don't suppose you'd be able to knock up a quick ACNA version? People could then use that as part of the poster/sign/thingy for the OSCON booth :) And it'd let us double check how things look. Sure, it would only take a few minutes. Can you remind me what the dates and the venue are, though? Also, do you have a size preference? These are not SVG, but I can resize them to be practically anything. I'll look into the suggested SVG program in the mean time. -- Daniel Ruggeri
Re: Any designers in the house?
Wow, I wish I had your drafting skills. I get lost in that stuff, and my design sense isn't that great anyway. As a designer I'ma pretty good programer ... In design one, Europe is lost in the background, and the year is difficult to read. The others seem to lose the detail to the graphic, somehow. Though I have no say in this, I imagine the Foundation would prefer that the distinctive feather logo was not obscured by lettering or other graphical designs. I wonder if would it work to have [] [ F E A T H E R ] EUROPE (or EU) (large lettering) [] Sinsheim, Germany 5th-9th November 2012 That way the detail will be more prominent, and the Apache motif undiluted. It would also be easier to create variants suited to specific backgrounds. Does this help? Oh, right: if you don't have a vector program, consider Inkscape, a very capable editor - again, rather over my head, but I can get by. regards Steve On Jul 13, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: On 7/9/2012 5:02 PM, Nick Burch wrote: We have scalable/vector versions, is that what you're after? * http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ (We'll ideally want the logo in a scalable format too, so it can be used for printing, but we could always reverse engineer that later if needed) I threw together three ideas - I'm stuck between the second and third, myself (and know well that the first one needs color adjustments to be less abrasive). These are just general ideas that can still be shaped very easily or scrapped for other ideas. Side note: I do not have a program that creates vector graphics. Let me know if you want more options or to tweak these existing designs. http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ -- Daniel Ruggeri -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/
Re: Any designers in the house?
Wow, all look great. But I like the third one best. regards, Achim 2012/7/13 Daniel Ruggeri drugg...@primary.net: On 7/9/2012 5:02 PM, Nick Burch wrote: We have scalable/vector versions, is that what you're after? * http://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ (We'll ideally want the logo in a scalable format too, so it can be used for printing, but we could always reverse engineer that later if needed) I threw together three ideas - I'm stuck between the second and third, myself (and know well that the first one needs color adjustments to be less abrasive). These are just general ideas that can still be shaped very easily or scrapped for other ideas. Side note: I do not have a program that creates vector graphics. Let me know if you want more options or to tweak these existing designs. http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ -- Daniel Ruggeri -- Apache Karaf http://karaf.apache.org/ Committer PMC OPS4J Pax Web http://wiki.ops4j.org/display/paxweb/Pax+Web/ Committer Project Lead OPS4J Pax for Vaadin http://team.ops4j.org/wiki/display/PAXVAADIN/Home Commiter Project Lead blog http://notizblog.nierbeck.de/
Re: Any designers in the house?
On 7/13/2012 3:03 PM, Steve Holden wrote: [] [ F E A T H E R ] EUROPE (or EU) (large lettering) [] Sinsheim, Germany 5th-9th November 2012 That way the detail will be more prominent, and the Apache motif undiluted. It would also be easier to create variants suited to specific backgrounds. Does this help? Steve; Awesome feedback. I've added (generally) this exact design towards the bottom of the page http://people.apache.org/%7Edruggeri/AC2012/#7. I've also added four other pokes at a wider, horizontal design based on the two I like best. As always, feedback and suggestions on colors/etc is greatly appreciated. There's a reason I don't do this as my day job :-) http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ -- Daniel Ruggeri
Re: Any designers in the house?
On Jul 13, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: On 7/13/2012 3:03 PM, Steve Holden wrote: [] [ F E A T H E R ] EUROPE (or EU) (large lettering) [] Sinsheim, Germany 5th-9th November 2012 That way the detail will be more prominent, and the Apache motif undiluted. It would also be easier to create variants suited to specific backgrounds. Does this help? Steve; Awesome feedback. I've added (generally) this exact design towards the bottom of the page http://people.apache.org/%7Edruggeri/AC2012/#7. I've also added four other pokes at a wider, horizontal design based on the two I like best. As always, feedback and suggestions on colors/etc is greatly appreciated. There's a reason I don't do this as my day job :-) http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ Yes, #7 would do it for me. Nick? S -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/
Re: Any designers in the house?
On Jul 13, 2012, at 3:54 PM, Daniel Ruggeri wrote: On 7/13/2012 3:03 PM, Steve Holden wrote: [] [ F E A T H E R ] EUROPE (or EU) (large lettering) [] Sinsheim, Germany 5th-9th November 2012 That way the detail will be more prominent, and the Apache motif undiluted. It would also be easier to create variants suited to specific backgrounds. Does this help? Steve; Awesome feedback. I've added (generally) this exact design towards the bottom of the page http://people.apache.org/%7Edruggeri/AC2012/#7. I've also added four other pokes at a wider, horizontal design based on the two I like best. As always, feedback and suggestions on colors/etc is greatly appreciated. There's a reason I don't do this as my day job :-) http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/ One more thing: in #7 we probably don't need to put 2012 against the dates since it papears just above in the conference strapline. regards Steve -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com, Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/
Re: Any designers in the house?
On 7/13/2012 6:26 PM, Steve Holden wrote: One more thing: in #7 we probably don't need to put 2012 against the dates since it papears just above in the conference strapline. regards Steve Oops :-$ All better now... 2012 removed from the bottom with text centered. Stretching the text as wide as the 'bar' did not look natural and adding spaces seemed weird, too. Adjusting the top half of the image seemed to make it too crowded. http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/#7 2012 moved to the bottom text. This has the benefit of also being able to fit North America should the same logo be reused. http://people.apache.org/~druggeri/AC2012/#9 -- Daniel Ruggeri
