Re: 2.16 slogan and banner

["Panos Laganakos" <panos laganakos gmail com>]

Cleaned up the "Your way home" a bit, and made a "Simply Powerful"
one, with a planetary touch.

http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/gnome-banner-03.png
http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/gnome-banner-04.png

Also, Lucas' work looks very smooth and fresh, *thumbs up*.

On 8/25/06, Quim Gil <qgil desdeamericaconamor org> wrote:
> Good to see more mockups, that was quick!
>
> Agreed, "Simply powerful" is a better slogan. This is the new default
> candidate. If you can beat it, beat it.
>
> In any case, new candidates for the slogan should refer to the concept
> of "more things, better integrated".
>
> So, sorry for the "Your way home" slogan because it goes too off the way
> of what we want to explain for the 2.16 release. This doesn't mean you
> can't work on a promotional GNOME banner, the idea is not bad and the
> first drafts you send are interesting, worth working.
>
> Once the concept is clear and we have a stronger slogan, let's
> concentrate on the design.
>
> From Pano's work I like the floating icons as shown in
> http://panos.solhost.org/mockups/gnome-banner-02.png . It looks a bit...
> conservative though. If we want to express "simply powerful" why don't
> having stronger differences of size (I insist: have you tried playing
> with oversized logos as you have never seen them in your desktop), and
> not any linear position.
>
> (I have just received http://www.rootshell.be/~loopback/gnomebanner/ -
> I'll ad some comments while Luca introduces it to the list)
>
> I like the selection of icons, they express things to any user. The
> grouping effect is also interesting. The problem I see is the Creative,
> Funny... Too many words, too many concepts for a single banner. Could be
> a descriptive GNOME banner, but we need something sharper for the 2.16
> release.
>
> We are in the good way and only in 24h we have got very interesting
> stuff. If you guys can keep the collaboration I'm sure we will get a
> memorable splash banner.
>
> --
> Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org | http://guadec.org


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Panos Laganakos