Karmic Artwork

[Pasi Lallinaho]

Steve Dodier wrote:
>
>
> 2009/9/12 Simon Steinbeiß <simon.steinbeiss at elfenbeinturm.at
> <mailto:simon.steinbeiss at elfenbeinturm.at>>
>
>     On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:12:26 +0200
>     Steve Dodier <sidnioulz at gmail.com <mailto:sidnioulz at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > > Something
>     >  [...]
>     >  [...]
>     >  [...]
>     > > If it's possible (Mads' "4th") anyway, I might be able to pull a
>     > > programmer for this job. I think we really could use the
>     default Ubuntu
>     > > theme recolored (as Lionel suggested) if anything else fails.
>     It doesn't
>     > > really look bad and this can become quite a big burden if we
>     keep on
>     > > insisting doing something else than Ubuntu does. It has
>     already become
>     > > quite hard to match what they are having, even without talking
>     about
>     > > surpassing.
>     > >
>     > > The mice might work well, but I think we would still want that
>     the word
>     > > "Xubuntu" would appear somewhere. Also, I don't know if it
>     would be
>     > > marketwise intelligent to not include the (X)ubuntu logo –
>     even if we
>     > > use Xfce and we love it, we are not Xfce. We are Xubuntu,
>     which is kind
>     > > of part of Ubuntu, so we can't dismiss the Ubuntu marketing
>     completely.
>     > > It is clear that the Xubuntu logo would not work as the Ubuntu
>     logo
>     > > (monochrome I mean; as the mouse is overlapping the circle),
>     so what to
>     > > do then? I don't know. Any other ideas?
>     > >
>     >
>     > The idea of the mouse is that the shape of the mouse fits better
>     alongside
>     > the slider than the shape of the Xubuntu logo. As for keeping
>     the Xubuntu
>     > word, we could put it below (probably not sexy) or in the bottom
>     left /
>     > right corner. Thoughts ?
>
>     maybe starting with a few mockups would be good (i guess i'm not
>     that good at imagining
>     these kind of things...)?
>
>
> And i'm not good at designing mockups :D Inkscape and Gimp are still
> extremely painful to use. 
I can create some mockups for you to look at. For future reference and
for everybody to feel free and try doing some mockups, the sources for
the original artwork can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot.

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Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
IRC: knome @ freenode