Hiya, I really like your work, as evidenced by bringing it to the attention of the list to discuss a while back - hope you don't mind :)
I tried to incorporate some of the ideas into the work I did for Produce here - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/EdgyArtworkPlan/Produce/Incoming/WhoLsplash some of the earlier designs were done as a way of trying to reconicle the gloss from MaG with your designs. The colours are different, but your work was basically the inspiration... I think gloss works well on those, but I think If I was to tone it any darker brown then it would start looking worse - in my opinion you are right that if we are using a dark brown then it must be flat and smooth - silky, maybe. I am not sure where the commitment to dark brown has come from, or even if it is a commitment. I think the oranges that we were moving towards for Dapper were too bright, but using caramels and the colours from the Dapper GDM I think we can get a more professional look - admitedly it is less earthy Who On 9/13/06, Alberto Núñez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm new to the list so I will introduce myself first. My nickname is > Nuak, I posted some images in the wiki and ubuntuforums a month ago > (after seeing in Digg an entry about the new Edgy look), and yesterday > I found by chance a discussion in this mailing list talking about the > splash images of the wiki: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02641.html > > My opinion about this, is that while the current artwork is greatly > done, it does look wrong. I'll try to explain. When you don't have a > REAL glossy-transparent environment, using glossy effects doesn't look > professional. The art team is trying to copy Mac OSX, and Ubuntu is > not Mac OSX. Maybe when GLX and compiz jump into mainstraim and new > technologies are developed, Ubuntu could look like that, but now, all > that bump-glossy-transparent effects are alone in a flat environment. > Hum, It's difficult to explain... I think that the main theme should > be easy to the eyes. I mean simple while sleek. About the colors, I > like the warm browns, but that candy-bar orange looks very agressive > to the eyes. > > And, last think I want to comment: Ubuntu logo looks way better in white ;) > > I have attached an image with the splash that should look close to my > idea, using tango icons and a supposed GLX environment with real > shadows. > > Greetings, > Nuak. > > > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art > > > > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
