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We are officially in the process of working on Fedora 37 wallpaper! Our candidate with an L last name has been chosen and it’s Hedy Lamarr!!!
Ideas and progress are going to be documented on pagure, issue 812.
Hedy Lamarr was a film actress and inventor. In World War II, Lamarr and George Anthiel developed a radio guidance system for torpedos that used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology so that the Allied powers could avoid the threat of jamming from the Axis powers.
The principles of their work was incorporated into GPS technology and Bluetooth, and are similar to methods in legacy versions of Wi-Fi and CDMA.
So we started brainstorming, thinking of the 1940s, radios, frequencies, the world, and much more shown below in our mindmap.
At the end of the session we agreed, that there was essentially four different routes we could go down.
1. 1980s Electric
In the 1980s radio helped shape the decade’s taste in music as well as the advancements in technology. We discussed visuals that were more obvious like 80s boomboxes and radios from that time, to MTV visuals that leaned into the bright colors and electric looks.
2. Glitchy Waves/Electricity
Building off the electric MTV looks we discussed pieces of art like the Matrix that has electric colors like the 80s color palette, that could also glitch like the frequencies hopping in Lamarr’s invention.
3. 1940’s Vintage
We also discussed the time period when these inventions by Lamarr were created in. The 1940s has a very distinct aesthetic, and we agreed muted color tones with radio towers and other imagery could do well inspired by Lamarr.
4. Eco-utopia
When thinking about the combination of the 1940s and the 1980s and their aesthetics merging together we thought about the idea of Eco-Utopias which were dreamed about happening in the 21st century earlier in the 20th century. Cities designed with nature at the forefront, tying communities to greenery and hopefully resulting in a better healthier world.
These are a combination of thumbnails made by myself (Madeline Peck), Jess Chitas, and Emma Kidney exploring the possibilities. Thumbnails are a great way to share quick ideas that can be hard to describe in words and multiple ways to attack the same idea. On the left column is the same bedroom with different color palettes and different outsides.
We knew we could merge our ideas together. They didn’t have to be entirely separate. The suggestion of having the bedroom in one time frame like the 1940s, while the window looks out onto the 1980s or some future, was suggested.
The next step includes gathering reference photos for composition and 1940s interiors to create a more detailed cleaned up sketch, and possible options for what the window will look out onto.
On the bottom right you can see how the thumbnail sketch has changed into a different color palette and has more of the 1940s details inside.
Join us at our next design team meeting on June 1st at 1:30 PM EST to share ideas and feedback with the rest of the team.