Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

GNOME Marketing Team:

On April 6th, I proposed a "GNOME Free Agent" t-shirt which would
highlight the humanitarian aspects of being a GNOME volunteer.

I have been working with Mike (Dongyun) Lee and Diki Niwatori to
put together a t-shirt mock-up.  Refer here:

  http://www.sheepfiends.com/gngt-olpc.png

After discussion, we decided to make the image mono-color.  While a bit
less exciting than the full-color version, it is less busy and will be
easier and less expensive to print.

Does this look good to people?  Does anyone have any comments
about the design or how to improve things further?

Thoughts?

Brian


On 04/06/10 15:08, Brian Cameron wrote:
> GNOME Marketing Team
>
> Over the past several months, I have been trading emails with the OLPC
> and SugarLabs folks about an opportunity to create a t-shirt to
> promote that GNOME free software benefits humanitarian projects like
> OLPC and Sugar Labs, and to provide a nice reward for volunteers within
> the GNOME community. Based on my rough textual design ideas I have
> gotten permission from both OLPC and SugarLabs to go ahead with using
> their logos in this way, though they obviously want to review a final
> mock-up of what the t-shirt will look like before giving a formal
> go-ahead.
>
> So, I have been thinking of creating a "GNOME Free Agent" t-shirt. I
> like this name since "Free Agent" is a fun play on words and can be
> interpreted in different ways including being an independent GNOME
> volunteer.
>
> Dongyun Lee (http://dongyunlee.com/) does artwork for OLPC and has
> volunteered to provide artwork to use on the t-shirt for no charge
> (though he does want 2 free t-shirts for himself and his wife which
> seems reasonable). Rather than a photograph of children using OLPC
> units (photographs are hard to make look nice on tshirts), he suggested
> using some of his OLPC line art. For example, you can see some work he
> did for OLPC here:
>
> http://www.sugarlabs.org/index.php?template=page&page=learners
>
> Both Dongyun and myself think this particular image would work nicely
> on a t-shirt:
>
> http://dongyunlee.com/imgsrc/il/il24_11.jpg
>
> Dongyun has volunteered to create some custom artwork for this t-shirt
> if we can provide direction. Some people I have shown this image to
> think it is a bit too busy, so perhaps something a bit toned down would
> be better. Thoughts?
>
> With the photo would appear the following text:
>
> [GNOME Logo] Free Software - Powering [OLPC logo] & [Sugar Labs logo]
>
> Perhaps some additional text under the photograph or under the logo
> would be nice like "Helping previously marginalized children throughout
> the developing world learn, achieve and begin to transform their
> communities"
>
> I was thinking that we could make two versions of the t-shirt. One
> version to sell for $20 that has nothing on the back. A second version
> will have the following text on the back and would be given away for
> no-charge to volunteers who work on GNOME but do not work for a company
> that works on GNOME. People who work on GNOME for a company would pay
> $25 for the second version of the tshirt with this text on the back:
>
> Free Agent
> GNOME Free Software Volunteer
>
> I am hoping that people on the marketing-list can help with:
>
> 1) What do people think of this proposal? Any ideas on how to further
> improve it?
> 2) As I mention above, Dongyun is agreeable to creating an image that
> is more focused on the relationship between GNOME, SugarLabs, and
> OLPC. Any ideas or direction that we could give to Dongyun would
> be helpful.
> 3) Perhaps the proposed image above is a bit too busy. Do people have
> suggestions on whether the image created for this t-shirt should be
> changed? Should less colors be used for an image intended for a
> t-shirt, for example?
> 4) I need someone with graphic design skills to put together a mock
> up image of the t-shirt to help facilitate moving this forward.
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian