F8 artwork

[Marek Mahut]

Hey all,

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> Some unsorted thoughts to start a discussion about artwork for F8:
>>
>> - As most people will probably have noticed by now, Diana is longer with
>> Red Hat, and it looks unlikely that we will have a full-time artist that
>> can help with the artwork in time for F8. 
> 
> Do you think is the case for us to start a 3 round process similar with 
> the one proposed for F7? - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/FC7Themes
> We can easily adapt it with dates following the F8 schedule.

I think it's a good idea. Why not involve schools for example? I know a 
very nice info-graphic school in Brussels, I'll drop them a mail, maybe 
they are interested to help.

>> - Personally, I'd like to explore a somewhat different style of artwork
>> for F8; something much less branded and image-based (maybe stripes :-)
>> -- if only because the F7 artwork is pretty much at the top of the
>> quality scale for this kind of heavily image-based, branded artwork (as
>> the initial F7 reviews show), and will be hard to top...
> 
> I agree about exploring a new style because I think we should bring 
> something fresh in each release and because is fun to explore different 
> styles.
> 
>> - The desktop team has started to work on improving the graphical boot
>> (see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureBetterStartup ). If
>> we can land this for F8, it will will mean quite a few changes to what
>> artwork is required for branding the boot (all for the better, less
>> images and less awkward restrictions on image formats). It is however,
>> blocking on kernel feature that we are currently not very confident to
>> have in the F8 timeframe.
> 
> We can focus on the overall style in the beginning and when the time 
> comes to create the individual images (probably around F8T2 or even a 
> little later) probably you will have a better idea about this blocker.
> 


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