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

[Gary C Martin]

On 31 May 2009, at 01:08, Sean DALY wrote:

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

:-)

That reminds me. I almost, but not quite (my poor forward planning  
beat me) turned up to SugarCamp Paris in a t-shirt swag with the Sugar  
home favourites ring, the cursor over the XO, and the palette pop-up  
menu open with my nick clearly showing – how better to get to know  
everyone's names ;-)

Thumbs up for customised swag***, as it costs no more than to print  
some pre built default image!

*** note to self, perhaps at some point build customised Sugar swag  
generator script back end; user nick and colour being the obvious  
inputs.

Regards,
--Gary

> 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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