Re: Artwork for FOSDEM

On 01/14/2012 07:10 PM, David Edmundson wrote:
> Someone recently linked to the artwork in the USENIX LISA event, I
> wanted to say something slightly off-topic about it.
>
> I'm not the world's best graphic designer, but I learned a few things
> when I worked in a publishing company and have some graphic designer
> friends, and though the work done is a great starting point I have a
> few tips for improvements.
>
> Obivously there's a lot of "personal preference" in this, but I'll
> share my comments so it's hopefully informative along with an updated
> design. If people agree that's cool, if not that's cool too.
>
> - We should use the same font as the KDE websites/other artwork. A
> font is just as important to an identity as the logo. You can
> recognise several brands (i.e CocaCola) just from the font alone. I
> /think/ we use bold Droid Sans, ideally I'd like to check.
>
> - Never stretch a font, it becomes a completely different font if you
> do. If you stretch a font it's saying you know better than the font
> artist.
>
> - Equally never stretch an image without keeping the aspect ratio. It
> immediately looks wrong.
>
> - Font shadows should generally go the same direction. You
> subconciously automatically when seeing shadow's guesses illumination
> direction - if it's inconsistent you'll feel something is wrong, even
> if you can't identify what, like a bad 3D movie.
>
> Tip: Don't do drop shadows yourself with copying and pasting use in
> built SVG drop shadows with a filter, it's easier and everything is
> smoother and blurred out correctly. :-)
>
> - Objects should never touch the edge of a page, and margins should be
> symetrical / equally distributed. Otherwise things looked "cramped".
> So the KDE logo and writing "KDE" is fine, but the distance between
> "Working Together" and the left edge should be the same as "Join the
> Game" and the right edge.
>
> Original: http://runeman.org/kde/lisa11/boothsign.png
>
> Updated: http://wstaw.org/m/2012/01/14/KDE_Community_thumb.png
>
> Also we should maybe use the default KDE 4.8 wallpaper, as it will be
> out before Fosdem.
>
> New Wallpaper: http://wstaw.org/m/2012/01/15/KDE_Community_thumb_new.png
>
> SVGs available on request, and I could update other stuff if people wanted.
>
> David Edmundson
>
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Very nice work. Updates are fantastic. For what it's worth, The 
"originals" were done by a very amateur "designer."  I approve of all 
the recommendations.
--Algot

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