Creative Freedom Summit
1) First version I very quickly drew up, playing off of the design team’s banner with the gradient. I think I’ll see what this looks like with the characters in full color.
2) Still playing around with the gradients and trying to incorporate all the other colors. The colors weren’t blending enough for me personally and I don’t like the centered layout of the logo and text.
3) This was the first one I was happy with. Added the shapes to try and lean into the playful creative side.
4) Wondered if the textured lines would be better kind of ebbing and flowing around the edges of the banner instead of coming out of the characters.
5) Essentially the dark version of #3. But I figured I’d play around with adding more texture to the green marker, the placement of ‘live’ and the shapes I include.
The Creative Freedom Summit in January is going to be recorded on Peertube and as such needs a specific banner for the videos.
Just went into Inkscape with the great logo and type svg designed by Jess Chitas and started playing around. Felt very satisfying and honestly wanted to keep going but figured it might be better to work on something else while people give feedback.
Oskar the Lion!
I don’t think I ever updated on here that the character I designed, to spread the good news of open source ways had their name chosen in a vote! *Drum roll please* they are called Oskar!
Along with the peertube banner I’m working on social media posts that can be formatted for multiple sites and Oskar would be a perfect addition to spice up the graphics! So the half finished svg file has been re opened and I gathered some inspo from the Fedora characters on what other poses/expressions might be helpful. It’s been super satisfying to make the svg file organized with a ton of layers and make Oskar like a digital paper doll. You can even drag their cheery facial expression off and replace it with a different one!
Miscellaneous etc.
Did some cleaning up in the epic for the Icon design project so Tanu can speed through the tickets. We discussed that she feels confident about being able to finish them all so we brainstormed some push goals if that does turn out to be the case.
Led the Design Team meeting on 12/7. Made sure to spend the first 10-15 minutes triaging one ticket and checking in on one that looked like it needed some attention. I gave feedback on the Anaconda logo redesign and loved seeing Emma’s Fedora cloud web page designs!
Hope everyone has a great week :) I just read this graphic novel Thieves by Lucie Bryon this week and it was so good! I might be biased since I’ve been consuming her art online for awhile. But it was inspiring to see the comic I’ve been seeing snippets of for years on social media, finally in my own hands.