FWN/Beats/Design

Artwork

In this section, we cover the Fedora Design Team.

Contributing Writer: Nicu Buculei

Theming Constantine

From FUDCon, after the announcement of the release name for Fedora 12 Nicu Buculei launchedref the talks about the graphic theme of the next release "I am sure you are all already aware, the announcement is official since yesterday when Paul delivered in in front of the FUDCon audience, the release name for Fedora 12 was voted Constantine". He also proposed a possible approach: Byzantine mosaics "When I think about it, I had in my mind Byzantine culture (Roman emperor Constantine the Great) and I think a graphic in the style of a Byzantine mosaic can be an effective approach. The major trick is to leave out any religious implications and stay only with cultural references."

Joost Elfering invited everyone to think at the big picture "I think we need to take a step back before coming up with results and examples. i suggest we first take a look at the associations with Constantine. these associations will be the bases for out new style. so no examples, just conceptual works" and showed concerns about the religious implications "this theme is really heavily based on religion on it's own. We will probably have some angry faces just because of the name. keeping out religion on this one will be really hard!", concerns shared also by Konstantinos Antonakoglou "You can't expect any work of art without a religious reference" who proposed a simple take on that "So, to keep it simple I sense that we should say: 'Hey! Byzantine art used the mosaic art! Let's use it too.'"

Henrik Heigl chimed-in with his own concerns about aggressiveness "The Lion has a bit of an aggressive meaning, Constantine is en emperor (also a bit aggressive) do we want the same way or make something smoother?" and added another couple of ideas to the brainstorming "I also had the Logo of my old University" and "Also I had the the "Lion" we had in Fedora11 in my head and now maybe another animal", with the animal idea ruled-out quickly by Nicu "We can't go with another animal (no, not even a panda :D), that would be to close to the previous release."