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Re: artwork

 

i'm studying how to make metacity themes and i'll try to make several
variants of possible design for our future default theme. i think there
should be at least one light and one dark flavor. any ideas about
colors, etc.? and what about controls - should we create a new gtk+
theme or pick up some existing one?

best regards,
jay

On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 07:47 +0200, Charl Wentzel wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I'm not yet clued up with Gimp and other graphics tools on Linux, but
> I'll try making a revision later.  I like the idea.  Here a
> description of my variant and why....
> 
> Starting with the original Ubuntu log, keeping the main circular parts
> and the "heads" (small circles).  Then add the "bricks" (rectangles
> from your idea) and put it in between the gaps of the circular parts.
> 
> It then resembles three people passing bricks to one another...
> building to gether, hence working on the community effort theme of
> Ubunty.
> 
> I also like the "troth" (triangle) in the middle.
> 
> It's a small change and slightly more complicated logo, but I like the
> message it portrays.
> 
> Regards
> Charl
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jay <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Reenen Laurie <rlaurie@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dubuntu - Ubuntu for Developers <dubuntu-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Dubuntu-team] artwork
> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:42:57 +0200
> 
> well, actually i didn't think much about the turn. it's a very rough
> sketch. but i think our logo should resemble ubuntu's one (like
> edubuntu's or ubuntu studio's). i've attached an improved variant (i
> added some color just to better distinguish different parts of the
> logo). what about "Letting the circular parts touch the blocks" - you
> may think of the circular parts as some glue (cement maybe). my idea was
> to make a geometrically simple logo so i didn't add any gaps between the
> circle parts and the blocks. feel free posting your own variants so that
> we'll have more choice.
> 
> best regards,
> jay
> 
> On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 11:23 +0200, Reenen Laurie wrote:
> > Looks awesome!
> > 
> > I would like to know if you had reasoning behind:
> > 1. Letting the circular parts touch the blocks?
> > 2. The "turn" of the logo.  (ie. at the moment the triangle is ^ and
> > have blocks at 2, 6, and 10 o'clock, if we use "ubuntu" circles, the
> > triangle would be <| and have blocks at 3, 7 and 11 o'clock)
> > 
> > And btw. I am not saying you should change it (it really looks
> > awesome), I just saw you had some symbolism so maybe you had more...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > -Reenen
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:02 AM, jay <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         i suggest to use this thread for artwork related discussions.
> >         here's my
> >         logo proposal. the three rectangles symbolize bricks and the
> >         triangle -
> >         a trowel. i'm not determined about colors but it's not very
> >         important
> >         for now.
> >         
> >         best regards,
> >         jay
> >         
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