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Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork
The Fedora wiki has an interview with
Máirín Duffy, lead of the Fedora art team, on the process
of creating the artwork for Fedora 8. "We don't have any hard
restriction saying that you can only produce software using the free and
open source tools available in Fedora, but all of the artwork as far as I
know was produced exclusively in tools available in Fedora, including
Inkscape and the GIMP. So Fedora 8's artwork serves as a pretty good
example of what you can do with the tools readily available in Fedora
itself."
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Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 9, 2007 18:52 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] While not a Fedora user, I have to say that I really like Ms. Duffy's work on the "Infinity" theme. That is some quality free artwork!
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 10, 2007 0:21 UTC (Wed) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] I'm not sure if this has anything to do with Duffy, but I have to be honest: when I logged onto my Fedora 8 RC and saw the darkblue-to-pink gradient background I thought had made a mistake and blindly picked some weird color combo, and afterward quickly changed to a solid blue. But now that I actually saw the same color combo in the screenshot I guess it wasn't me. But I still think it is kinda weird, especially for Fedora.
I'm mainly a more community-driven Linux distro user (Gentoo), but one thing I do admire about the more commercial ones like Red Hat and Suse is that they can afford to hire good artists to add some spit and polish to their brand.
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 10, 2007 1:20 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] Some context:
One of the decisions that ruffled some feathers in Fedora 7 was the one to let a Red Hat artist designated for that work to make the final decision without being all that inclusive of many of the community members participating in that effort and Fedora 8 is a deliberate effort to avoid that. However Mairin Duffy indeed is a professional artist working for Red Hat though she leads the art team in Fedora voluntarily. I think Fedora can afford to be less "professional" than Red Hat with RHEL if it results in good artwork with community involvement which it did.
Also Fedora 8 background is actually animated and changes colors slowly to match the time of the day and there is some amount of playing with colors surrounding that which you might have gathered from the inteview and the screenshots showing different colors already but I just wanted to highlight that in case you missed it.
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 10, 2007 12:16 UTC (Wed) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] Also Fedora 8 background is actually animated and changes colors slowly to match the time of the dayw00t! Take that, OpenBSD!
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 11, 2007 21:43 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Ooo. I must dig out the code for this: I want it on other distros. :)
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 11, 2007 22:52 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
It is being proposed already for the next version of GNOME. So likely everyone will get it soon anyway. One of the key focuses in Fedora is to push everything we do upstream.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-Se...
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 11, 2007 23:21 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Excellent! :)
(Of course as a KDE user this means I'll have to add it to KDE 4 as well,
Interview with Mairin Duffy on Fedora 8 Artwork Posted Oct 10, 2007 13:34 UTC (Wed) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] Also Fedora 8 background is actually animated and changes colors slowly to match the time of the day and there is some amount of playing with colors surrounding that which you might have gathered from the inteview and the screenshots showing different colors already but I just wanted to highlight that in case you missed it.Yeah, I realize that now. I guess I should have read that first :-)
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