Jeremy, I think your diagnosis is spot on: we have a collective surplus of enthusiastic creative energy from folks who would like to contribute to making TiddlyWiki intuitive, visible, and attractive.
Those of us who have a deeper toolkit/skillset for graphics than for coding are especially eager to step up when there's a call for graphic design. The result is a level of detail-wrangling over a banner image that has a relatively limited role. Something like a set of public ads would be a more substantive project. Presumably there should be at least something like thematic and stylistic coherence (which helps people recognize multiple ads as being about the same thing), but there are many possible ways to develop such coherence. -Springer On Monday, June 28, 2021 at 11:10:18 AM UTC-4 jeremy...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Springer > > One thing I find myself thinking when I look at the entries is that the > new release banner is a frustratingly constrained canvas for the creativity > that we see here. The purpose of the new release banner is just to brand > each released version, so that visitors to tiddlywiki.com can see the > version number at a glance in the splash screen and "HelloThere". So > really, the only requirement is that it displays the version number > clearly, and is visually distinctive from previous banners. > > Nonetheless, I think we'll continue to need a new release banner for each > version, but I wonder if we might have the bandwidth for another, ongoing > competition that gives contributors a bit more to get their teeth into. > Instead of posters, perhaps the designs could be banner advertisements of a > specified size: we could have fun imagining how we would advertise > TiddlyWiki in big media outlets like the New York Times, Instagram, Reddit > or Wired. > > We could also host the banner ads on tiddlywiki.com in such a way that > anyone who wanted to could add an iframe to their site to add a rotating > gallery of TiddlyWiki advertisements. (We would obviously do that without > any tracking). > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > jer...@jermolene.com > https://jermolene.com > > On 28 Jun 2021, at 15:53, springer <springer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Dear all, > > The gallery <https://tw-logo-contest.tiddlyhost.com/> is now up to date > including James' latest submission with emoji. Of course, multi-submission > authors will need to winnow our offerings. > > I'd love to hear more feedback in the spirit of what Télumire offered over > the weekend. > > For what it's worth, the images chosen for version banners, up to now, are > remarkably heterogeneous -- there's no history of sticking to the fonts > used on tiddlywiki.com, nor to any particular palette, and even the > TiddlyWiki name was never part of the banner image until 5.1.23 (and > invoking a precedent for not using masks seems odd given the heterogeneity > of version banners, though I respect individual aesthetic reactions). If > there's some emerging consensus around any of these points, then I think > we'd all welcome reflections on such things. > > There's a delicate balance, in this open-source world between > volunteer/amateur enthusiasm and expertise. I love the spirit of this > banner image competition, and yet I also recognize that designers (such as > Duarte Farrajota Ramos, who won the poster competition > <https://tiddlywiki.com/poster/>) really do bring skills to the challenge > of communicating clearly and efficiently through images. > > In this spirit, it's worth reflecting further on the audience for this > (and other) TiddlyWiki imagery and publicity. Are we looking for images > that will feel accessible to those who know little about TiddlyWiki and its > innards, or are we aiming primarily to communicate with those who already > recognize JSON or curly brackets as familiar reference-points? > > Both the puzzle-piece logo of 5.1.22 and the modular shape in Atro's > 5.1.23 image presuppose no programming-literacy. The JSON file-icon gesture > in Mohammad's entry seems to be at the other end of the spectrum: it surely > speaks clearly and elegantly to many users who are at home in code, but > perhaps at the risk of intimidating someone who is browsing for a free, > flexible, publishable and future-proof alternative to bloatware like > evernote, and who would be only slowly tempted to peek under the hood (or > "bonnet" for you Brits;) ). > > What do you all think? > > -Springer > > On Saturday, June 26, 2021 at 11:45:11 AM UTC-4 Télumire wrote: > >> Hi everyone, here's my honest feedback, I hope it will be useful : >> >> springer >> <https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/eccIEHZoxsI/m/jQ1dPEyKAwAJ> : >> love the simplicity of it. ... Color wise, I think it would be best to use >> the color palette of the vanilla TW... the font you used too... looks like >> it's not the default font used by TW. ... I personally don't like the >> masked versions. 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