F11 Sleeve design

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:47:19AM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
> On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Clint Savage <herlo1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:19 AM, Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro> wrote:
> >> On 04/29/2009 10:23 PM, Clint Savage wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I wanted to bring this up since it affects my ability to order and
> >>> deliver F11 media to ambassadors and community members.
> >>>
> >>> According to John Poelstra's task list for the Fedora Art team [1], we
> >>> should be starting the design for the Sleeves and disc labels. Here's
> >>> the information:
> >>>
> >>> Create DVD/CD label and sleeve artwork          Start: Tue 2009-04-28
> >>> Due:
> >>> Tue 2009-05-12          Duration: 14days
> >>>
> >>> So with that, I'd like to get the conversation started and see what we
> >>> want to do for the sleeves, design wise.
> >>
> >> A little bit ago Susmit showed his interest about working on this:
> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-art-list/2009-April/msg00052.html
> >>
> >
> > It appears this conversation died, however the deadline is fast
> > approaching.  I can create something based upon the lion design, but I
> > think Someone else (Samuele, Mo, Nicu, etc.) is probably more capable
> > than I.  Could someone please pick this up and get a draft ready
> > before Monday?  If not, I'll see what I can do next week as I am
> > fairly busy these days :/
> 
> HI all,
> 
> I wanted to follow this email up with another.  I've created some
> initial artwork for the sleeves, but I think it needs some help.  I
> wonder if anyone has any time today/tomorrow to have a look at my
> work?
> 
> http://herlo.fedorapeople.org/art/F11-live-sleeve.tar.bz2
> 
> Currently, it's just the live sleeve, but I expect to create 64-bit
> live, and 32-bit/64-bit DVD sleeves too.  After getting this done,
> I'll work on the CD/DVD labels, which should be much easier to
> complete.

Looks good -- a couple ideas to consider:

* Change copyright date to 2009

* Make the 11 bold and possibly add a glow.

* Kern the "11" so the numbers are closer together; due to the font
  metrics they currently look unnaturally far apart.

The lion is still pretty busy -- did you want to consider moving the
design, so the lion appears more to one corner, and the logo and "11"
appear opposite his head?

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