>> Speaking personally, I wouldn't mind if OpenBSD's website were >> updated. Just no one has volunteered yet to do the dirty work of >> actually coming up with a functional design and then updating the >> HTML. >> >> Talk is cheap.
I'm willing to indirectly donate to OpenBSD by paying a professional graphic designer to redo parts of OpenBSD's visual design. His portfolio: www.flexstudio.ch Richard is a very good friend but still your typical starving artist with bills to pay. I did this before for other friends' businesses who loved it. >No one is EXPECTING quality diffs, for our definition of "quality", and >therefore, waiting would be silly. But...if someone shows us something >that is a REAL improvement and not just window dressing, or moving stuff >for the sake of moving stuff, I'm sure we'd look at it. Graphic design is about communication, it's a means to an end, whatever gets in the way is a problem. Why you fail to get your message across doesn't matter -- OpenBSD's current anachronistic design or Wired-mag type sensory overload. Gimmicks like CSS, Javascript, Flash or whatever are a problem more often than not. Richard will argue that more than one color, in addition to black & white, is a distraction (and that Vision Street Wear copied the Swastika). It took me _years_ to understand and respect that graphic design isn't all that subjective, that it's a craft, with harmonic rules similar to music, and that a programmer has as little credibility questioning his skill than him questioning mine. There's a ~5% window I can argue why something he did is counter-message but for the rest it takes me a few days to realize I'm wrong, he's right, a fucking genius in fact. I'm not going to argue the point with anyone; if you think beauty counters functionality I say "iPod click-wheel" or that "opinions are like assholes; everybody has theirs" then you're looking up your own :) -- p
