Re: GNOME Free Agent T-shirt Proposal

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

Thanks for the positive responses, but I really need someone with
graphic design skills to help make this happen.  I am hoping that
we can get this done in time to make the t-shirts available at
GUADEC and Dongyun is awaiting a mock-up before he does additional
work putting together the graphics.

Are there any graphic designers out there who could help with this?

Brian


On 04/ 6/10 03:08 PM, 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