'Who', I love the use of smooth rich caramels in the last seven images on that wiki page. The best one would have to be 015_who_lsplash_MaG.png, it has a seemingly 3D border, glossy black text which IS readable against the caramel background, which does has varying luminosities but is balanced nicely. The logo and the text could do with some more definition against the background, however. But 015_who_lsplash_MaG.png is definitely one of my top few styles.
I hope to be able to help out with Edgy's art soon. Two weeks of holidays start next week and I just love playing with Inkscape :D. On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 10:29 +0100, Who wrote: > 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
