On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 13:45 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote: > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/09/01/awesome-examples.)
What you write about examples in books and quality issues with many free-software related offerings resonates with me. Free Software could do with more and more skilled design and artwork contributors. The path into free software development seems to be much clearer. > I wanted to see if there are examples of promotional materials, > newsletters, posters, or templates that might be appropriate to > include in the book from the Ubuntu project? Perhaps http://www.behance.net/gallery/Getting-Started-with-Ubuntu-10_04-Title-Page/588233 http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/ubuntu-chicago-loco-t-shirt/ > Any example of graphic communication (regardless of source) would be > appropriate. I am more interested in inspiring and showing solid > design principles than advertising for a particular product (even > something as wonderful as open source). I can't hand out the few more recent examples of my layout work due to copyright and privacy concerns and the rest is just old and done with Quark Xpress. But have a look at the following. Might not be exactly what you're after, but all qualifies at least for being done with Inkscape: http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_front.png http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_case.png http://linuxaudio.org/files/music/1_label.png http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/identica-freemusic-group/ http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/11/09/mudlet-2/ http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2008/11/02/a-window-for-wubi/ http://www.behance.net/gallery/Bad-Business/481607 SVG sources available. In case illustrations done with GIMP are OK, too: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/design-in-collaborative-projects/ -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
