[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[Frederick Grose]

Please indulge me to make another pitch for the 'sunrise' metaphor for the
growing ring.
Using the same color locations, the ring would build from sunrise orange to
midday yellow to afternoon greens and blues to dusky red-violets (perhaps
the darker one last).  These are just common earth metaphors that might come
to mind as children worldwide--who may have never seen a analog or digital
clock--anticipate what may be waiting for them in their day ahead of them.

The ring would also build from one foot, and end symmetrically on the
other--a growth surrounding the nascent learner like a cover--a home--a safe
shelter for learning or a shower of celestial opportunities.  "Will I grow
too like the graphic is suggesting?"

OK, these are just potential metaphors...


On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like that a lot.
> I'm with others on leaving the version number as well to the 'About my
> Computer' panel. (It can be referenced and then read as needed after
> booting, whereas the vanishing boot image just makes me nervous about
> writing down or memorizing a long number.)
>
> The Green Hornet, would of course only appear on a 'Graphic guidelines'
> page for deployments and packagers.
>
> I suggest you try this sequence:
>
> 1. a short, blank white field (infinite potential)
>
> 2. the small xo figure (just possibly me in a big universe)
>
> 3. the building ring and figure (what might be building for me? Will I grow
> too as suggested?)
>
> 4. the Sugar, and optional custom graphic,  pausing, usually a
> machine-dependent variable time, allowing for reading (fixing the name of
> this tool and those who built it for me)         Do we want a gray Sugar
> Labs opposite the fedora remix?
>
> (5. the living, playable, ready-to-open door to Learning--the Sugar Home
> view.)
>
> Thanks everyone!       --Fred
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fred - I have uploaded a new variant to the wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Eleven_Color_Ray_Variant.2C_Growing_XO_Avatar.2C_No_Prior_Outlines.2C_Starts_With_Logo_Splash_Page
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 4:37 AM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I mostly like it.  Seems to be close to what we want for now.
>> > Please consider these adjustments:
>> > 1.  No fine print (leave that for the 'About my Computer" panel).
>> > 2.  Scale the custom school graphic example (Green Hornet) to fit the
>> other
>> > elements, leave out the fine print.
>> > 3.  Let the rays grow incrementally to complete the ring (no unfilled
>> place
>> > holders).  I feel more anticipation and suspense from the ring growing
>> > without the preview, and more satisfaction of seeing the completed color
>> > burst.
>> >         Thank you!        --Fred
>> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Here's the second mockup:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Eleven_Color_Ray_Variant.2C_Growing_XO_Avatar.2C_Starts_With_Logo_Splash_Page
>> >>
>> >> This version includes a logo/copyright splash page and a "growing" or
>> >> "approaching" XO avatar.
>> >>
>> >> Comments welcome please.
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >>
>> >> Sean
>> >
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