Re: COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 Website Development follow up

[Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>]

Dear Timothy,

Thanks for your explanation! We will definitely consider your
suggestions and please send us the designs when they are finished :)

Thanks,
Pockey 

On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 23:03 +0800, Timothy Chien wrote:
> Pockey,
> 
> Thank you for your reply. These questions were asked during our
> initial discussion; since it's clear now none of the modifications are
> acceptable, we will now try different approaches.
> 
> We are making our best effort to come up a relatively good design that
> serves as our website banner and the title part of the poster. However
> after discussion with all the designers, we found that it's hard to
> have *everything* in a single banner - two logos with texts that is
> distinct in style, the common title, and the tagline, and possibility
> time and place as well.
> 
> Here is what I am proposing right now: is it possible to remove
> "GNOME.Aisa Summit" and "COSCUP" in two of the logos, and choose an
> entirely new font-face for the common title to be put beside the two
> graphics (the COSCUP "C" and GNOME.Asia "bamboo")? That would make the
> life of all of us a lot easier. The greenish color of bamboo graphics
> will not be changed, and hopefully we would ended up a clean design
> that is not to crowd.
> 
> We would also attempt to "combine" these two graphics - adding circles
> around or putting an X between them to indicate it's an co-event. I've
> already ask Honki to come up with some designs based on these
> principles.
> 
> We really want to ship some design that is better "put the two logos
> besides each other." Our designers are trying to make next week's
> deadline on poster and co-branded website. The design of the
> co-branded theme has to be saddle soon to leave time for the "PSD to
> xHTML" work. Hope to hear thought of your side soon.
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org> wrote:
> > Dear Timothy,
> >
> > -- How far could GAS logo be modified to fit the design? Monochrome?
> >
> > Our logo only have 2 color, is it possible to keep the two color? ;)
> >
> >> Change the relative position of logo and text?
> >
> > since its a co - event, one logo on each side corner should work, what do u think?
> >
> >> -- For website header in particular, does the joint title need to be
> >> represented? how about tagline?
> >
> > It's a good idea to have the agreed joint title and tagline on the
> > header.
> >
> > our web lead, Will will also give his suggestions here later as well.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pockey
> >
> > On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 21:37 +0800, Timothy Chien wrote:
> >> Pockey,
> >>
> >> I might not be able to stay on line during the whole meeting (poor
> >> connectivity), here are some information I would like to share with
> >> GAS team in advanced:
> >>
> >> * After internal discussion, we think that it would be a good chance
> >> to ship the new co-branded website with a improved layout all
> >> together.
> >> * The background color will be significantly lighter for better
> >> readability and improve the integration of two full colour logos.
> >> * The website designer, Ev, have come up a mock-up for the new
> >> layout[1]. However
> >> background color, banner arrangement, gaps and sizes of the elements,
> >> and footer design is not final, nor completed. She will give us more
> >> update tomorrow.
> >> * As of website banner, we will ask for another designer, Honki, who will be
> >> responsible for all the graphics, to come up a better arrangement of
> >> the two logos and to unify all the material (poster, booklet, etc).
> >> However before he could come up any idea, we need to confirm that
> >> -- How far could GAS logo be modified to fit the design? Monochrome?
> >> Change the relative position of logo and text?
> >> -- For website header in particular, does the joint title need to be
> >> represented? how about tagline?
> >>
> >> I hope we could discuss these items further during meeting.
> >>
> >>
> >> BR,
> >>
> >>
> >> Tim
> >>
> >> [1] http://github.com/monoceroi/coscup-2010/blob/74eef211f9b849e5358464724795ed60ed0e86a6/design/coscup.design_Portal.png?raw=true
> >
> >