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

[Sean DALY]

Gary - many thanks, I was unaware the assets were publicly available
as SVGs, this will be helpful when we set up merchandise ("swag")

I don't have a vector package handy but for my needs imagemagick
(although a raster engine and ill-suited to serious vector
manipulation) offers a simple way to convert the raw blobs into
transparent-background PNGs on the command line:

<snip>
$ convert +antialias -density 300 -background none -resize 44x44
computer-xo.svg computer-xo.png
</snip>

For different colors I'll try editing the SVG blob directly.

thanks

Sean



On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote:
>
>> Christian, Eben
>>
>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an
>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar
>> interface.iconography and greeting children.
>>
>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that
>> consecutively named files will do the trick
>>
>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do
>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab?
>
> The logo vector SVG's at:
>
>        http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Logo
>
> ...are a good start.
>
> All of Sugar's UI icon art work is also in SVG format, good place to have a
> poke about is:
>
>
>  http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-artwork/repos/mainline/trees/master/icons/scalable
>
> For example, you'd find an XO child icon in device, called computer-xo.svg
>
> FWIW, on a Mac here, you need to save an svg (the raw blob) to your local
> machine and then view it (Quick Look or open again in Browse will do (Browse
> will let you cmd + to render an svg larger)). For more serious work if you
> have Illustrator that's ideal, I'm out of date with it but use
> VectorDesigner for vector work instead; I'm sure Inkscape is fine also if
> you can suffer poking your eyes out on the sharpened sticks and broken glass
> they like to refer as a user interface ;-)
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
>> Input greatly appreciated
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe we could work on it together?
>>>
>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which Christian
>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the Sugar
>>> HIG and iconography.
>>>
>>>
>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous SoaS
>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs")
>>>
>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but instead of
>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids!
>>>
>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity icon...
>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So kids
>>> understand that Activities are for them.
>>>
>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal!
>>>
>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos?
>>>
>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>
>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence for
>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements,
>>> backing down to the first image
>>>
>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could
>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sean,
>>>> FYI, this came in off list.
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --G
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>> From: James Zaki <james.zaki at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST
>>>> To: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen
>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two.
>>>>
>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration?
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for
>>>>>> awhile
>>>>>
>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review.
>>>>>
>>>>> --G
>>>>>
>>>>>> What's the deadline please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>> Sean
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin
>>>>>> <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been
>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum
>>>>>>>> repo
>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten,
>>>>>>>> and I
>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal
>>>>>>>> with a
>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo
>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably
>>>>>>>> with a progress bar).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was
>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really
>>>>>>>> great if
>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no
>>>>>>> one else steps forward.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release,
>>>>>>>> which
>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it
>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config
>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the
>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location
>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in
>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this
>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct
>>>>>>> file names :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>> --Gary
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>> --Sebastian
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