[FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2

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>    1. Re: [FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2
>       (M?ir?n Duffy)
>    2. Re: christmas wallpaper :) (Nicu Buculei)
>    3. Re: [FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2
>       (Nicu Buculei)
>    4. Re: more natural colors (Nicu Buculei)
>    5. Re: [FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2
>       (Nicu Buculei)
>    6. Re: more natural colors (development at wilburwebdesign.net)
>    7. Re: more natural colors (Nicu Buculei)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 23:54:11 -0500
> From: M?ir?n Duffy <duffy at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [FC7 theme proposal] Flying High with Fedora 7 - Round 2
> To: "Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including
> 	icons,	themes, and wallpapers." <fedora-art-list at redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <457F8773.3040101 at redhat.com>
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> John Baer wrote:
>   
>> I guess it's time to get to work!
>>     
>
> I put together some Flying High with Fedora artwork for round 2. I 
> uploaded it here:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/FC7Themes/Fc7ThemeProposalFlyingHighRound2
>
> I really really liked Jiří's Flying High mockup [1] so these were 
> heavily inspired by that! I added Jiří's balloon design into these new 
> ones - it adds variety and looks really slick. I also made SVGs 
> available for each piece so everyone can feel free to play around with them.
>
> I'm thinking for the wallpaper something much more laid back than these 
> little pieces (as Nicu pointed out earlier they're too busy for a 
> wallpaper.) Maybe even just a simple night sky scape with two tiny 
> balloons (community :) ) and some clouds off into a corner - similar to 
> one of John's mocks [2], but with the logo and balloons even smaller in 
> proportion.
>
> The release number is in one of them but it's not an integral part of 
> the artwork (as it was for the c6re design.) I thought it might be 
> useful to add into artwork on a very selective basis so you'll know what 
> version it is you're running/installing/etc. What do you folks think 
> about a number policy like that?
>
> ~m
>
> [1] 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fc7ThemeProposalFlyingHighPOC?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=jjm-flying-high01.png
> [2] 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fc7ThemeProposalFlyingHighPOC?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=wallpaper-moonlight2.png
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:59:44 +0200
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro>
> Subject: Re: christmas wallpaper :)
> To: "Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including
> 	icons,	themes, and wallpapers." <fedora-art-list at redhat.com>
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> Jiri Jakub Masek wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, Máirín, the problem is that I have temporary no access to my 
>> website due to technical reasons, sorry. It should be better about few days.
>>     
>
> The real benefit of using deviantART is the community part*, some of us 
> are already there, chained as friends, watching each other's work, 
> commenting and helping to improve our works, see some of our pages:
> - Máirín's: http://pookstar.deviantart.com/
> - Ben's: http://iamseawolf.deviantart.com/
> - my own: http://nicubunu.deviantart.com/
> And we are not yet using that site at its full capacity.
>
>
> * I started recently to use mugshot and am unhappy it lack support for 
> our dA accounts.
>
>   
>> 2006/12/12, Máirín Duffy < duffy at redhat.com <mailto:duffy at redhat.com>>:
>>
>>     Very cool! Have you considered signing up for a deviant art account? You
>>     get a lot of space on there. Photobucket is another option. Deviant Art
>>     has a really nice community around it; photobucket doesn't really have
>>     any community aspects but it's a good quick place to host images.
>>
>>     Here is where you sign up for each (they are free):
>>
>>     http://www.deviantart.com/join/
>>     
>
>   
Flying High Round 2 rocks. attachment:flying-high-r2-square1.svg , 
attachment:flying-high-r2-horiz1_takeN.svg , and 
attachment:flying-high-r2-vert1.svg are interesting. A theme with this 
artwork would definitely fit students, professors, children, and other 
people.