Re: [ubuntu-art] Kith Intrepid

2008-05-05 Thread Damian Vila
Ken Vermette escribió: > Hello again everyone; > > Despite limited time, I've managed to throw together a simple theme > idea for Intrepid. There's a link below, it's pretty much the same as > Kith (in an old hardy wiki, referenced) but with a few tweaks for a > more stylized look. Very little

[ubuntu-art] Wiki organization

2008-05-01 Thread Damian Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was looking at the wiki and, in my opinion, it's a bit disorganized. Leaving aside pages that are there to help (Documentation, Help, Meetings, PageTemplate, etc.) I was thinking that a clearer structure could be used. What must be stressed, in my

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Damian Vila
Thorsten Wilms escribió: >> And Ubuntu won't be brown, that's for sure. >> > There's no consensus even with the current incarnation of brown. > I agree with Troy that brown can be done better and shouldn't be judged > on what we have seen so far. I want to clarify that I like brown. I had my t

Re: [ubuntu-art] Who is our target audience?

2007-12-25 Thread Damian Vila
Troy James Sobotka escribió: > The point of choosing an audience is not exactly as murky as you > wish to paint it. It is perhaps one of the most valuable discussions > this list has _ever_ seen. > > Unfortunately, in the end, the default installations presence > and audience are outside of the sc

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpapers

2007-12-07 Thread Damian Vila
Hi Anton, Of course, I'm glad to share the way I work. It will be lengthy, I must warn you. :-) First of all a disclaimer: excuse me, because re-reading my previous mail I think that my translation of the phrase you are mentioning, wich I'm glad to answer, didn't sound in English as I intended in

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper

2007-12-07 Thread Damian Vila
In functional terms, the best "wallpaper" would be a plain, solid, blueish, not too dark, not too light, not too saturated color. Something like #405580. And with the color going darker against the edges of the screen. Why? It's not distracting. I gives enough contrast against _any_ icon you throw

Re: [ubuntu-art] Wallpaper

2007-12-04 Thread Damian Vila
Hi Steph, In case you missed the info: This is the Hardy Release Schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule When the Artwork Team information is available, it will be there. You have the Animal wallpapers in the Attic section of the Artwork wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming

Re: Request for project icon and logo

2007-11-27 Thread Damian Vila
This is nice! :-) Looks like the feet are in the air... is it on purpouse? If so, you can make them "vanish" the farther away they are. Regards, Damian Nicu Buculei escribió: > Nicu Buculei wrote: >> Nicu Buculei wrote: >>> John (J5) Palmieri wrote: Hey guys I have a project I am releasing

Re: [ubuntu-art] Curiousity:)

2007-11-21 Thread Damian Vila
Sorry for the double mail, I just found the interview in english: http://www.abclinuxu.cz/clanky/rozhovory/mark-shuttleworth?page=1 The interesting point: *4) How are you looking forward to KDE 4? Is there a possibility of KDE 4 ever displacing Gnome as the default 'desktop of choice' for Ubuntu?

Re: [ubuntu-art] Curiousity:)

2007-11-21 Thread Damian Vila
As far as I know (from an interview I read), he choose GNOME because they compromised on a 6 month development cycle (to match that of Ubuntu) and because GNOME has a compromise on usability and not only on features. Regards, D. titon barua escribió: > Hi ppl, i know it's like flamming but i woul

Re: [ubuntu-art] Members details

2007-11-21 Thread Damian Vila
Damian Vila, 34, from Buenos Aires, Argentina, but I live in Madrid, Spain since 2002. Graphic/Web designer. I speak Spanish, English, some Portuguese and (very, very basic and rudimentary) Japanese. Regards, D. sylvain marc escribió: > Yes, of course. For the communauty, to partage my ideas

Re: [ubuntu-art] DarkIce Theme

2007-11-16 Thread Damian Vila
The divider's nice, but the "gloss" contrast is too high, and the buttons looks like decoration or some kind of weird progress bar... Too eye candy for my taste. Maybe good to take a few ideas from... Regards, D. Steph escribió: > > I just found an intersting theme on Gnome-Look.org : it's called

Re: [Long] Do we need a font SIG ?

2007-09-26 Thread Damian Vila
Hello everybody, My name is Damián Vila. I'm a graphic designer living in Madrid, Spain. I subscribed to the list a couple of day ago and wanted to introduce myself. To the topic: in case a SIG is formed, I advise it's members to join the Open Font Library list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailma

Re: [ubuntu-art] ubuntu-art Digest, Vol 27, Issue 17

2007-09-24 Thread Damian Vila
Sorry, don't get me wrong, because I don't want to sound hash, but I don't agree with the part that things were clear at the wiki. And also, you are contradicting yourself. If it was that clear you should have gotten proposals that matched the criteria. You got things you didn't expect because the

Re: [ubuntu-art] Let one thousand flowers bloom

2007-09-24 Thread Damian Vila
Any day on this week will be fine for me. D. Kenneth Wimer escribió: > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:11:57 Martijn Bastiaan wrote: > >> Murat Gunes wrote: >> >>> Kenneth Wimer wrote: >>> I propose Friday evening at 20 UTC in #ubuntu-art on freenode...sound good?

Re: [ubuntu-art] community wallpaper package

2007-09-18 Thread Damian Vila
Uh!. I didn't know that... I'll try to make a larger version of "lion" then. Regards, D. Kenneth Wimer escribió: > On Tuesday 18 September 2007 15:31:17 Damian Vila wrote: > >> Hi Ken (and everybody else), >> >> I can produce a 4:3 version of the a

Re: [ubuntu-art] community wallpaper package

2007-09-18 Thread Damian Vila
Yes, I meant 1280x960. Just a lousy habit of using only the W dimension... Thanks Carlos. D. Carlos Moreno escribió: > Damian Vila wrote: >> Hi Ken (and everybody else), >> >> I can produce a 4:3 version of the animal wallpapers (most probably >> 1280x1024) > >

Re: [ubuntu-art] community wallpaper package

2007-09-18 Thread Damian Vila
Hi Ken (and everybody else), I can produce a 4:3 version of the animal wallpapers (most probably 1280x1024) and the original 16:10 I've already submitted. I really apologize, but currently I don't have time to produce a larger version of the wallpapers. Where do I sent them? Regards, Damian Ke