Re: libre graphics meeting

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Max Spevack wrote: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/ Is anyone from the Fedora community attending this? For next year's meeting, I'd really love for us to send a couple of people. This year's event caught me by surprise, but I would be happy to sponsor

Re: libre graphics meeting

2009-05-06 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 7 May 2009, María Leandro wrote: Excelent program, but I'm really really far :( I think it moves around all over the world :) --Max___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com

Re: FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-03 Thread Max Spevack
On Sat, 2 May 2009, Max Spevack wrote: As for the words in the tag cloud, we can keep the generic ones related to Fedora, and we should remove the Boston/Massachusettes/MIT words and replace them with some related to this FUDCon: A great mockup was posted here: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk

Re: FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-03 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 3 May 2009, Charlie Brej wrote: The program is available [1] and is easy to modify. There is a script, called fudcon_logo_script, which you can modify to change the words. With multiple word blocks put speech marks around them (just like I forgot to). You will also need

libre graphics meeting

2009-05-02 Thread Max Spevack
http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/ Is anyone from the Fedora community attending this? --Max ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

FUDCon Berlin T-shirts

2009-05-02 Thread Max Spevack
Hi all, I wanted to take a moment to ping about the FUDCon Berlin tshirt designs, which should be very easy given that we're simply adopting the FUDCon Boston design, with the following changes: s/Boston/Berlin As for the words in the tag cloud, we can keep the generic ones related to

Re: Fedora Mascot

2009-04-02 Thread Max Spevack
/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Female_ferret_Emily_cinnamon_color.jpg/160px-Female_ferret_Emily_cinnamon_color.jpg Faithfully submitted, Max Spevack Ex-FPL and Level 50 Troll ___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com

Re: Fedora Mascot

2009-04-02 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: I thought you were all about the lemurs, now it's ferrets? Anyway, the answer is NO, Spevack! Now go pay some attention to your cat, whom you're probably ignoring so you can troll us ;-D Just so you know, I'm doing my weasel war dance, and you

Re: New Concept for F11 King

2009-03-31 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Charlie Brej wrote: theme. There are 4 levels of complexity. Which one do people think is best? http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~brejc8/temp/lion2.jpg this one is my favorite. All nice, nice work. Color me impressed. --Max 3 fedora-art-team

Re: New Concept for F11 King

2009-03-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Máirín Duffy wrote: Would anyone be especially opposed to going with Samuele's Lion idea, seeing that both Samuele and Charlie have committed to helping out with it? Also, some of our splash ideas

FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
Hi art team, On behalf of the FUDCon Berlin 2009 organizational team, I've got a few artwork requests that I'd like to make. We already have: * the basic FUDCon Berlin logo, for use on a website * the FUDCon signage http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/collateral/fudcon-signage/ * the

Re: FUDCon Berlin 2009

2009-03-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Nicu Buculei wrote: With German text? then we will need some help from a German speaker and lay the ad starting from that text. Probably both in English and German. I'll come up with something in English, and we can mock it up there, and then translate it. I'll get

Re: theme song

2009-03-12 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Paul W. Frields wrote: But a song about something that Fedora holds dear seems like a perfectly awesome idea to me. What about a song about friendship and community? And if Greg DeKoenigsberg suggests a workers' anthem, please ignore him. ;-) Greg is working on a tune

Re: FUDCon Boston 2009 tshirt designs

2008-12-15 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Máirí­n Duffy wrote: design 1: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/17/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-1_design.png design 2: https://fedoraproject.org/w/uploads/1/19/Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_fudcon-boston-2009-2_design.png (Wiki page is:

Re: Artwork Quality (was Re: Sound themes)

2008-10-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Matthias Clasen wrote: (3) How appropriate is it characterize opinions as belonging to the Desktop Team versus individuals within that team? Far better for the Art Team to have one set of positions and the Desktop Team to have another set of positions, but to know that

advertisement for Fedora Scholarship

2008-10-29 Thread Max Spevack
Hi guys, I'm trying to generate some buzz around this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Scholarship and it was suggested to me that perhaps a nice looking flyer that people could print out and stick on walls at high schools or various places would be useful. I guess we'd want to include the

Re: Fedora Remix mark

2008-10-15 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote: I don't suppose we could just defer to the Fedora Art team to make a decision, since we have set them up to be the authoritative voice on precisely these kinds of matters? +1 -- this is how we prevent bikeshedding. Delegate choices to the

Re: Fedora 10's official Default theme

2008-09-23 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Michael Beckwith wrote: Solar InvinXble Gears Neon They are all beautifully done pieces of artwork, and I really hope that everyone in the Art Team is proud of what the group has collectively achieved. I say congrats to everyone on the Art Team. --Max

Re: FUDCon Brno tshirts

2008-07-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: Was the original picture one of Jay Turner's? Yes, if he is rhlinuxguy on flickr - http://flickr.com/photos/linuxguy/2098670932/ As you can see, I flipped the image horizontally for the composition. Yep, that's him. He's one of our QA managers who

Re: Does blue make you blue?

2008-07-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: In my opinion Blue has become part of the Fedora identity, from the Logo to the desktop themes and defaults. Sure some other colors blended in with it are welcome, but I do believe that Blue now has an identity to Fedora as much as red did for

FUDCon Brno tshirts

2008-07-28 Thread Max Spevack
Hi art team, Since you guys did such an awesome job on the FUDCon Boston shirts, I was wondering if you'd be willing to make a few mock-ups of what a FUDCon Brno shirt would look like. I like the idea of trying to have a bit of design consistency for each year's FUDCon shirts... so maybe we

Re: FUDCon Brno tshirts

2008-07-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: Very nice photos! Rather than have to mess with special permissions, I used http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ and searched there for Boston pictures for that FUDCon shirt redesign, sticking with the BY and BY-SA pools. I just searched in

Re: FUDCon Brno tshirts

2008-07-28 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: BTW, the Red Hat people in Brno do not have cameras? No one of them with photography as a hobby? I am sure they are geeks enough and we'll find a right one. I'm sending an email to Brno list right now :) --Max

Re: [Ambassadors] EUROPE: CDs, Shirts and Stickers

2008-07-25 Thread Max Spevack
The T-shirt shown doesn't have our official logo on it, but I think there ought to be one -- a small one on the upper back, or on one sleeve. That helps to keep the brand identification even though the front has a completely different presentation of the word fedora. To summarize the

Re: [Ambassadors] EUROPE: CDs, Shirts and Stickers

2008-07-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: What do you say? Do you have any problem with us producing a bunch of the I *heart* Fedora tshirts? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Image:Artwork_T(2d)Shirt_tshirt_love.png Fedora EMEA e.V. is producing these shirts, correct? They have a

Re: Fedora 9.0 CD/DVD

2008-04-24 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, ryan lerch wrote: I have taken into consideration the ideas / suggestions discussed eariler in this threasd and an updated version of the art is on the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/MediaArt/F9 Ryan, I just wanted to say a big thank you for the work that

Re: Getting covers printed

2008-04-17 Thread Max Spevack
Let me throw in my two cents about the actual mechanics of turning artwork on the wiki into tangible product. Mostly, we want to give people *anywhere in the world* the tools they need to produce CDs and/or sleeves with artwork that has been blessed and approved by the Fedora Art team. The

Re: Fedora 9.0 CD/DVD

2008-04-17 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: any suggestions on the designs? I'm not sure where to go from here... These look pretty darn good! ...with one teensy-tiny exception: The TM probably needs to be outside the Fedora logo bubble, because generally it's the unadulterated appearance

Re: Fedora 9.0 CD/DVD

2008-04-16 Thread Max Spevack
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, Paul W. Frields wrote: To reiterate a previous comment, we absolutely need to print the URL on the CD/DVD covers -- the back side would be a good place: http://fedoraproject.org/ I sent an email out a while back about this... I would really like to get the artwork to

Re: F9 CD/DVD art

2008-04-08 Thread Max Spevack
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: A while ago I tried to come out with some concepts as an incentive for people to work on that, but the follow up was minimal: http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2008/03/first-attempt-at-f9-sulphur-media.html I think those look great.

FUDCon Boston Artwork

2008-04-04 Thread Max Spevack
Hi fedora-art-list: A couple of loose ends regarding artwork for FUDCon Boston (along side the Red Hat Summit) that I wanted to try to get some closure on. Cc: Kristin Nordstrom and Mary Bitter, who are helping with FUDCon from the RH internal side. (1) Overall FUDCon Boston 2008 logo.

F9 CD/DVD art

2008-04-04 Thread Max Spevack
Well, the Fedora 8 CD/DVD media and jacket art was absolutely beautiful, and everyone loved it. In order to get the fastest possible turnaround time from our media producers worldwide once the GOLD bits are finalized, it would be great if we could get the F9 CD/DVD artwork and jackets

Re: FUDCon Boston Artwork

2008-04-04 Thread Max Spevack
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: I think the one with the pru in it (design #1) is better. You could consider it final I think. The only concern is that it's derived from a Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0 Generic photo. Is that okay? If not I can probably go out and shoot some photos of

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Nicu Buculei wrote: But from a design point of view it may be useful to know your target and use lighter colors for a dark background and darker colors for a light background (and avoid the same shade of blue for the graphic and the background). One solution can be

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, María Leandro wrote: we made one last year Those shirts look really nice! --Max___ Fedora-art-list mailing list Fedora-art-list@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-art-list

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jiri Jakub Masek wrote: Hi, and what about the size of design? 10x10 inches, or? Whatever you want once there are some cool designs that we like, we'll figure out to work them into the the final products. I purposefully didn't want to start putting restrictions on

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-30 Thread Max Spevack
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote: -jefIf I had budget powers here is what I would do about t-shirts...make a set of special Fedora Curling League shirts, talk to someone at the Triangle Curling Club in NC and find out how much it would cost to sponsor a small tournament...have all the

new tshirts

2008-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
Hi art team, We would like to make tshirts for a variety of Fedora needs. I thought I would email this list to see if folks here wanted to work on ideas, etc. This is a very liberal request -- I don't want to put any restrictions on your ideas or designs. Stuff we are looking for: * A

Re: new tshirts

2008-01-29 Thread Max Spevack
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Máirín Duffy wrote: * A general Fedora tshirt, to replace the one we have now that is just the Fedora logo on the front. This will be our main swag item for, say, the next year. Could there be a women's sized version of this as well as a men's sized? Even a men's cut

how decisions are made in fedora art

2006-12-21 Thread Max Spevack
*NOTE* -- this is a long email, but I hope ultimately that anyone who reads it will find it wasn't a waste of time. === Where I am coming from === In case some of the folks on this list don't know me, I'm Max Spevack. My job is Fedora Project Leader and insofar as that makes me ultimately