design-team January 2021

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Inkscape 1.1 screen contest
by Benson Muite 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

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Fedora 35 Wallpaper: Help wanted!
by Máirín Duffy 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi folks! Last week we had a pretty fun video chat where we talked through some conceptual ideas for the Fedora 35 wallpaper inspired by Mae Jemison. At the bottom of the ticket you'll see there are a few ideas we had that are in need of some thumbnail sketches to brainstorm how we might visually represent them: https://pagure.io/design/issue/707#comment-711132 There are 4 ideas, and if you're willing/able, it would be super helpful if you'd be willing to claim one of the 4 ideas in the ticket (https://pagure.io/design/issue/707) and work on maybe 4 or 5 very quick, very sloppy, very sketchy thumbnail sketches to brainstorm on ways to visualize the idea. If this sounds intriguing but you're not quite sure how to start, please feel free to ping me either here, off-list, in the ticket, or via chat (I'm mizmo in #fedora-design on irc.freenode.net or in the Design Team matrix channel at https://matrix.to/#/#fedora-design:matrix.org ) The full list of 4 ideas is below for your convenience :) ~m 1. Perspective / Illusion / Spaceship Some ideas we talked about here was the visual of cells weightlessly floating through blood vessels, stem cells, a space ship mimicking the shape of a human cell. 2. Human Body The physicality of the human body and how it handles weightlessness (her research topic for NASA)... thinking about the shape of cells 3. Return to normalcy / Cooperation & Unity between people We talked about how we are all physically cooped up throughout COVID in the same way that astronauts in a mission are physically cooped up on a shuttle or on the space station, and the sense of hope for all us posed by the incredible things astronauts/researchers can do in this restrictive environment... 4. Weightlessness / Tron-style GFX / Perspective We talked about how the perspective lines inside the space capsule are an interesting alternative to a generic space image... we also talked about how Tron legacy visuals are also an interesting alternative to generic space imagery, and how some of the related images also depict a sense of weightlessness (Jemison's research focus)

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Reminder: designer video chat session tomorrow!
by Máirín Duffy 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

Hey everybody :) Our first Design Team Sessions Live session is tomorrow! If you have any Fedora design work you'd like feedback on, or if you have anything you're working on you'd like to show off, or if you have any topics you want us to cover, feel free to either reply to this thread or message me off-list! The topic I'm bringing is the F35 wallpaper - our inspiration is Mae Jemison and I'd love to brainstorm some visual ideas! Here's the details: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/join-us-design-team-sessions-live/ The meeting link: https://jitsi.riot.im/sCKrJFTGlxUYsIwkZumatrixorgihpwhaq9pq8 (You can also join from our Matrix room at https://matrix.to/#/#fedora-design:matrix.org ) Time: Location Time Offset UTC 19:00 / 7 PM UTC Boston (EST) 14:00 / 2 PM UTC-5 Arizona (MST) 1 PM UTC-7 Israel (IST) 21:00 / 9 PM UTC+2 Prague (CET) 20:00 / 8 PM UTC+1 Moscow (MSK) Nairobi (EAT) 22:00 / 10 PM UTC +3 Kolkata (IST) 0:30 / 12:30 AM UTC + 5:30 Phnom Penh (ICT) 2 AM UTC + 7 ~m

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[Fedocal] Reminder meeting : 🎨 Design Team Sessions Live (🎥 Video Chat)
by duffy＠fedoraproject.org 19 Jan '21

19 Jan '21

Dear all, You are kindly invited to the meeting: 🎨 Design Team Sessions Live (🎥 Video Chat) on 2021-01-20 from 14:00:00 to 15:00:00 US/Eastern At https://jitsi.riot.im/sCKrJFTGlxUYsIwkZumatrixorgihpwhaq9pq The meeting will be about: A regular fortnightly 🎥 video chat meetup for 👨‍🎨️ designers in Fedora and friends. Anyone participating can bring some design work they are working on for some critique / advice / etc. If nobody has anything to show off Mo will have some Fedora design ticket or thing she's working on that we can look at as a back up. This is a laid-back / chill but also a super-respectful, calm, encouraging, and safe environment. All of the Fedora code of conduct rules apply. More information available at: [https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/design-team@lists.fedoraproje… Source: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/meeting/9895/

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[Help wanted!] Graphics for blog post (banner, infographics)
by Marie Nordin 15 Jan '21

15 Jan '21

Hi folks, We are wrapping up a blog post for Fedora Women's Day and we would love to have a custom banner to use. Any other graphics to include would be a welcome bonus :) Please take a look at the ticket, jump in and create something, or feel free to ask any follow up questions. Design ticket: https://pagure.io/design/issue/713 Commblog banner repo: https://pagure.io/communityblog-images I added a bunch of content to the ticket to use: Graphics that we used during the FWD event (easy to remix this) Poll results (could be made into a fun infographic!) Statistics from the event (same, infographic would be cool) Screenshots of the speakers (could be included in banner somehow, or made into a collage with some graphic elements to add throughout the post) Thanks in advance! -- Marie Nordin Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/> • Fedora Project <https://getfedora.org/> She/Her/Hers T: +1.973.800.4967 IRC: riecatnor <https://red.ht/sig>

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Design Team representation in Fedora Mindshare group
by Máirín Duffy 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

Hi folks, Marie opened this ticket today to let us know there is an opportunity for us to have a representative on the Fedora Mindshare team: https://pagure.io/design/issue/712 I am happy to serve in this capacity if nobody else has interest, but I do not want to block anyone from stepping up into this role, more serve as a plan B if nobody has the bandwidth / interest / whatnot to do it. I just wanted to make it clear that this opportunity is open to anyone on the team who is interested! As there is no formal process defined for how we choose a representative, I would suggest anyone interested in this opportunity to either reply to this thread or express your interest in the ticket linked above and let's circle back in a week or so and see where we are at and make a decision. Cheers, ~m

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Fedora design video hangouts
by Máirín Duffy 12 Jan '21

12 Jan '21

Hi everybody :) Before the holidays I did a few very impromptu live design sessions/chats using streaming / video chats (the first was on twitch but I didn't like how one-way it was, so subsequent ones were on Jitsi.) We did some live digital painting, a design critique session, and also a Discourse theming session, with a lot of fun and random chatter and banter :) I'd like to continue this on a more regular / planned basis, maybe every two weeks, and I am inviting my current set of interns and mentees to join in too (hoping it can be a teaching tool for them!) The idea is anyone participating can bring some design work they are working on for some critique / advice / etc. and if nobody has anything to show off I will always have some Fedora design ticket or thing I'm working on that we can look at as a back up. I want it to be very laid-back / chill but also a super-respectful, calm, encouraging, and safe environment. All of the Fedora code of conduct [1] rules apply. If this is something you'd be interested in participating in or if you have any ideas or concerns around it, let me know. I am hoping to schedule the first session sometime next week. Cheers, ~m [1] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/

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Introducing myself
by Aimadedine Hafed 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hello, I would like to contribute in the fedora design by doing tasks like wallpapers improvement, or creating icons and logos in the future. My experience is still, for now, to improve.

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Kicking off Fedora 35 wallpaper
by Máirín Duffy 11 Jan '21

11 Jan '21

Hi everyone, We missed the boat on getting the F33 and F34 wallpaper out at the same time. We have the F34 wallpaper underway but I'd like to try to get F34 and F35 out at the same time so we can finally get ahead a release. As a refresher, each release we increment a letter of the alphabet and look to highlight a scientist, inventor, or engineer whose name begins with that letter and use their work as inspiration for the visual concept of the wallpaper. For example, F29's inspiration was Alexander Graham Bell ("B") and we embedded the concept of a vocal sound wave into the visuals of a forest reflecting in water. For F35, the letter is J. The first part of this process is as a team we vote on which of a few J figures we find most inspirational / the best possibility for cool visuals for the F35 wallpaper. I propose the list below. Should we get voting? -- 1. Irene Joliot-Curie - Marie Curie's daughter, she was a Nobel-prize winning scientist who was the first to transmute stable atoms into radioactive atoms. Visual concepts around this theme could deal with transformation / change / conversion, and energy/power. -- 2. Edward Jenner - Credited with the discovered of smallpox vaccination - he noticed milkmaids that had contracted cowpox from working with cows were immune to smallpox and developed and tested a vaccine. This concept is clearly timely with the ongoing pandemic. We could key off of that, one of the concepts around defeating an infectious disease is each individual caring about the needs of the whole community and being considerate, and understanding we're all one - so that's one potential concept that could be visualized in some form. -- 3. Mae Carol Jemison - A medical doctor and sceintist who became a NASA astronaut studying the effects of weightlessness and motion sickness on human health. She also appeared on an episode of Star Trek and is the only real astronaut to ever do so. Jemison was a doctor (also very timely to feature a doctor with the pandemic) as well as an astronaut and a teacher/mentor. We've done a lot of space themes and I'd suggest aiming away from a generic space theme and maybe thinking about specifically the human body in space since that was her research topic for NASA. -- 4. Whitcomb Judson - A mechanical engineer from the mid 19th century with many railway/streetcar patents who also happened to have invented the zipper. There's a lot of neat abstract visuals we could come up with I think around the mechanism of a zipper (which he called a "clasp-locker fastener"). The way the components weave together, and the general concept of connecting things could be neat visuals. -- 5. Reynold B. Johnson - A high school science teacher who became an engineer at IBM and invented the first hard drive in 1956. In his retirement he invented technology to enable Fisher Price toys to speak. I'm not too sure about visuals for this one but the invention of the hard drive seems pretty significant and relevant to Fedora so I figured I'd throw it in :) Cheers, ~m

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