Hi,
It's two months pre-Flock and the design team only has one ticket - the website banner for the website. We'll have to create a logo, and I'm assuming there will be other assets we need to design for the event.
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Thanks, ~m
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:06:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Bex is on vacation this month. I don't know if he was planning a printed program. Things I can think of other than that are:
* badges * tshirt * maybe a promotional graphic for Magazine articles / sharing online?
What else have we had in previous years?
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 5:45 PM Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:06:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Bex is on vacation this month.
This week. I’ll work on a reply when I get back. Has the open design ticket been resolved?
Thank you,
Regards,
bex
I don't know if he was planning a
printed program. Things I can think of other than that are:
- badges
- tshirt
- maybe a promotional graphic for Magazine articles / sharing online?
What else have we had in previous years?
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Hi,
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:43 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd bexelbie@redhat.com wrote:
This week. I’ll work on a reply when I get back. Has the open design ticket been resolved?
https://pagure.io/design/issue/597
The design and CSS assets are complete but need to be integrated into the site.
Note we produced Dresden-specific assets since they are the more pressing need, but because the logo is text+css based, the location can easily be swapped and the background photo can be removed to show only the background color that's generically Fedora appropriate.
~m
On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 06:43:04PM +0200, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
Bex is on vacation this month.
Uh, sorry. Overstated. :)
Hi Matthew,
This is what we've had in the past that the design team worked on:
https://pagure.io/design/issues?status=Closed&search_pattern=flock
- travel guide - wifi portal logo - tshirt - fedora mag banners - blog banners ("i'm going to flock") - qr scan poster for badge - fedora badges associated with event - room signage / directional signage - lanyards - sticker sheets - schedule booklet / printouts (last year ryan did a wall schedule)
Not knowing what swag / collateral budget is available and what items might be planned, nor what rooms or how many rooms there will be, nor the schedule to create the schedule booklet.... I'm concerned about how we'll make progress on anything listed above except for:
- the blog banners - the Fedora magazine banners - the logo which we could use for a t-shirt design if there's budget and intention to have t-shirts.
We have already gotten started on the logo, and can get started right away on the other two banners. I am concerned about the other items.
I am on vacation the first week in July, and I will be taking on and orienting a new intern the second week of July, so I won't be available in July until the second half, which is 2-3 weeks before the event and too late to create and have designs ready for vendors to produce including their production time.
~m
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:06:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Bex is on vacation this month. I don't know if he was planning a printed program. Things I can think of other than that are:
- badges
- tshirt
- maybe a promotional graphic for Magazine articles / sharing online?
What else have we had in previous years?
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Given the lack of overlapping time available, I think it would make sense to do the following:
* Continue to develop a standard logo and/or group of assets that can be used in several places * Prioritize the 4-5 deliverables that are the most important to have for the event * Make the assets available so that, if time or people allow, something extra can be done
Keeping in mind that physical production needs lead time, I'd suggest prioritizing any shirt and physical badge. Printed material seems like it could be least important. We can just as easily throw e.g. a session schedule and travel info on the wiki. On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:44 PM Máirín Duffy duffy@redhat.com wrote:
Hi Matthew,
This is what we've had in the past that the design team worked on:
https://pagure.io/design/issues?status=Closed&search_pattern=flock
- travel guide
- wifi portal logo
- tshirt
- fedora mag banners
- blog banners ("i'm going to flock")
- qr scan poster for badge
- fedora badges associated with event
- room signage / directional signage
- lanyards
- sticker sheets
- schedule booklet / printouts (last year ryan did a wall schedule)
Not knowing what swag / collateral budget is available and what items might be planned, nor what rooms or how many rooms there will be, nor the schedule to create the schedule booklet.... I'm concerned about how we'll make progress on anything listed above except for:
- the blog banners
- the Fedora magazine banners
- the logo which we could use for a t-shirt design if there's budget and intention to have t-shirts.
We have already gotten started on the logo, and can get started right away on the other two banners. I am concerned about the other items.
I am on vacation the first week in July, and I will be taking on and orienting a new intern the second week of July, so I won't be available in July until the second half, which is 2-3 weeks before the event and too late to create and have designs ready for vendors to produce including their production time.
~m
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:06:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Bex is on vacation this month. I don't know if he was planning a printed program. Things I can think of other than that are: * badges * tshirt * maybe a promotional graphic for Magazine articles / sharing online? What else have we had in previous years?
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On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 6:44 PM, Máirín Duffy duffy@redhat.com wrote:
Hi Matthew,
This is what we've had in the past that the design team worked on:
https://pagure.io/design/issues?status=Closed&search_pattern=flock
- travel guide
- wifi portal logo
- tshirt
- fedora mag banners
- blog banners ("i'm going to flock")
- qr scan poster for badge
- fedora badges associated with event
- room signage / directional signage
- lanyards
- sticker sheets
- schedule booklet / printouts (last year ryan did a wall schedule)
Not knowing what swag / collateral budget is available and what items might be planned, nor what rooms or how many rooms there will be, nor the schedule to create the schedule booklet.... I'm concerned about how we'll make progress on anything listed above except for:
- the blog banners
- the Fedora magazine banners
- the logo which we could use for a t-shirt design if there's budget and
intention to have t-shirts.
We have already gotten started on the logo, and can get started right away on the other two banners. I am concerned about the other items.
Thank you for the comprehensive list Mo, this was super helpful. Also, thank you for working on completing the new art and CSS. I think I integrated it correctly into the site. That said, your feedback/improvements are always welcome.
I talked to Matthew yesterday about the artwork. We want to continue to put the focus on the Fedora brand, Since Flock is an internally focused conference, it doesn't need fancy external branding work. We wonder if we the design team could focus on a logo and concept that could become a standard design to be used from year to year. This design could feature an optionally changing element, for example (and not restricted to) a line art city-theme that changes in the background of the logo. This, it seems would allow us to create a set of design tasks that would be good easyfix/first tasks each year (i.e. update the Flock logo with a new number), and opportunity for creativity when the team has the capacity for it (add the line-art like thing), and reduce the amount of effort that needs to be put in each year to produce all of the various collateral.
This would seem to translate into set designs (with, ideally simple mandatory updates and some optional creativity updates) for:
- A logo/masthead for printed/pdf'ed documents - A website/magazine banner header - Blog/tweet promo banners - "attended" fedora badge
Effort can be focused each year on the: - "party" fedora badge - T-shirt, if we have one - any extras, if needed
A special note about T-shirts. We would like to make Fedora the prominent brand on the t-shirt, possibly even not mentioning Flock at all. The goal here is to give our contributors a shirt to wear that starts a conversation about Fedora first, and not a "What is Flock?" conversation. If we have sponsors who will be on the shirt, we would consider producing a second t-shirt that is a Fedora-branded and themed Flock shirt with sponsors. This gets around the issue that many people have raised about not wanting to wear a sponsor branded shirt.
Right now, we have budgeted for the Fedora t-shirt mentioned. We currently do not have sponsors requesting a t-shirt printing.
How can we help make this happen? Would me opening design tickets help?
Thanks,
bex
I am on vacation the first week in July, and I will be taking on and orienting a new intern the second week of July, so I won't be available in July until the second half, which is 2-3 weeks before the event and too late to create and have designs ready for vendors to produce including their production time.
~m
On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 02:06:53PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
July is a big vacation month, and there's not so much time left even if that wasn't the case, so to make sure nothing falls on the floor, can someone let us know what items need to be designed for Flock so we can work on them?
Bex is on vacation this month. I don't know if he was planning a printed program. Things I can think of other than that are: * badges * tshirt * maybe a promotional graphic for Magazine articles / sharing online? What else have we had in previous years? -- Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list -- design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to design-team-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/design-team@ lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4ABSIOOPGQFDEIU63VW3BUENPS5GJPJL/
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Hi,
On 06/13/2018 08:33 AM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
I talked to Matthew yesterday about the artwork. We want to continue to put the focus on the Fedora brand, Since Flock is an internally focused conference, it doesn't need fancy external branding work. We wonder if we the design team could focus on a logo and concept that could become a standard design to be used from year to year. This design could feature an optionally changing element, for example (and not restricted to) a line art city-theme that changes in the background of the logo.
Absolutely. This was the exact approach we took with FUDcons. We can easily produce a lockup Flock logo template where the city name can be filled in and the logo generated. (The idea for that came from how regional barcamp logos work.)
Given installation of the correct fonts, this could even be scripted.
This, it seems would allow us to create a set of design tasks that would be good easyfix/first tasks each year (i.e. update the Flock logo with a new number), and opportunity for creativity when the team has the capacity for it (add the line-art like thing), and reduce the amount of effort that needs to be put in each year to produce all of the various collateral.
+9999
This would seem to translate into set designs (with, ideally simple mandatory updates and some optional creativity updates) for:
- A logo/masthead for printed/pdf'ed documents
- A website/magazine banner header
- Blog/tweet promo banners
- "attended" fedora badge
Effort can be focused each year on the:
- "party" fedora badge
- T-shirt, if we have one
- any extras, if needed
A special note about T-shirts. We would like to make Fedora the prominent brand on the t-shirt, possibly even not mentioning Flock at all. The goal here is to give our contributors a shirt to wear that starts a conversation about Fedora first, and not a "What is Flock?" conversation. If we have sponsors who will be on the shirt, we would consider producing a second t-shirt that is a Fedora-branded and themed Flock shirt with sponsors. This gets around the issue that many people have raised about not wanting to wear a sponsor branded shirt.
I love the idea of focusing on a shirt that is Fedora first and could even be used in other contexts.
If there are folks who don't want to wear a sponsor-branded shirt - I would argue that we shouldn't be creating the shirts, it seems wasteful to me. Do sponsors insist on being present on the shirt specifically, or could other equivalent kinds of exposure be offered instead - on any printed program / schedule materials, an article in Fedora Magazine or the Community Blog featuring the sponsor, etc? Could we be more creative about their logos' placement?
Right now, we have budgeted for the Fedora t-shirt mentioned. We currently do not have sponsors requesting a t-shirt printing.
How can we help make this happen? Would me opening design tickets help?
Opening tickets would definitely be helpful. This is what I'm seeing in terms of needed tickets, highlighting info that we need:
Design Team https://pagure.io/design/issues -------------------------------
1 - T-shirt ticket: how fancy do you want to go, minimal colors or something brighter and colorful; what base color of shirt fabric are you thinking; just a front design or a back design too? Beyond "Flock: Dresden" what should it say or have? Also - since it's Fedora first, we have pre-existing Fedora shirt designs we could just use off-the-shelf if there are any of interest.
2. Logo/masthead for printed/PDF documents: some context for what documents you're anticipating (a printed program/schedule? a visa invitation letter? something else?) What format(s) the design should be in. Any relevant specs (I'm assuming A4? For typical office printing with no full bleed?)
3. Website/magazine banner header - I do already have a ticket for Magazine / Community blog - https://pagure.io/design/issue/599 so this is set.
4. Blog/tweet promo banners - this isn't my expertise in terms of the standards for these - is there anyone twitter / social savvy who knows the right dimensions / specs for how these are typically done?
5. Anything else needed in the extras category
Badges https://pagure.io/fedora-badges/issues --------------------------------------
1. party badge
2. attended badge
Cheers, ~m
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