The Final Zone project

Drawing straight to the tablet on Gimp 2.6.7. No GEGL used. Not sure if I should go to paint or more realistic.

Due to the poor network in Seneca College, my message will be short. Final release name is known as Goddard, American scientist behind one of first rockets using liquid fuel . Fedora 13 Artwork wiki has been created as kick-off for designers. Feel free to submit your concept as sketch, illustration, collage as long it follow the theme related to rocketry, space, galaxies.

Early concept of what I am currently do for school project. All it remains to do is painting, sticking and some refinement. I had to prepare another version based on Japanese Pop Art (stumbled on it while looking for Pop Art movement).

Fedora Artwork released a new version of echo-icon-theme. One of noticeable change is the coverage of System -> Administration level from the default desktop. Please test them on both Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 . The tar version is available on Echo website . Fedora Artwork a lance une nouvelle version d'echo-icon-theme. Un des changements visibles est la couverture du niveau de menu Systeme -> Administration du bureau par defaut. Veuillez les tester sur Fedora 8 and Fedora 9 . La version tarball est disponible le site Echo .

Traduit du blog original . La version Beta est proche, nous voulons avoir des commentaires sur l'art qui sera inclus dans Fedora 10. Nous commençons par le thème d'icônes Echo puis les versions traditionnelles tels que décors, etc. Thème d'icônes Echo Echo-icon-theme a été approuvé comme caractéristique de Fedora 10 sous condition de réaliser une couverture suffisante. Premièrement, nous voulons savoir ce qu'est cette couverture suffisante en considérant l'écart de la version actuelle sur le Spin Desktop Live. Martin a démarré Fedora 9 Live et examiné les icônes necéssaires. Basé sur la liste en question , près de 89% est le but réquise comparativement à la version courante. Nous avions concentré nos efforts à remplir la barre de menu Gnome avec la complétion du premier niveau du menu et du second niveau dans le menu Système. L'amélioration du Système -> Administration est enorme puisqu'il y avait trois ou quatre séries d'icône différentes et plusi...

English (update) echo-icon-theme 0.3.2.1 has been released for Fedora 8 and 9 on fedora-test-update repository with new and updated icons on the first level of Gnome menu. The tarball version is also available from Echo icon website . Français (mise a jour) echo-icon-theme 0.3.2.1 est sorti pour Fedora 8 et 9 sous le dépôt fedora-test-update avec des nouvelles icones (incluant les versions revisees) au premier niveau du menu Gnome. La version tarball est aussi disponible a partir du site d'icônes Echo .

Le thème d'icône Echo a maintenant une identité. Echo-icon-theme now has an identity.

test, this is a test

Following Máirín blog , I took occasion create a set of eight wallpapers (wave-testXX) displaying rippling effects . Each set represent the time of day from sunrise to right. For example, sunrise-wave-test00 switches to day-wave-test01 that switches to sunset-wave-test02 that swithces to night-wave-test03 then sunrise-wave-test04. As a result, each wallpapers will be different while still retaining the wave theme giving a quiet dynamic feel. The cure wave-test.xml file is set for a quick animation thus might cause slowdown for low-end desktops and laptops. The work is in progress as bubble and stars are not included and the time of day is not included yet, it should land on Fedora 9 soon. Improvement is welcome.

Winter session is almost over. I have been busy tuning some assignments for Graphic Design class. I have learned a lot from the making of logo, magazine, art history (from Art Nouveau to Contemporary styles), printing procedure, and advanced typography. Ironically, I had indirectly know the process before inside Fedora Project especially the making of the logo. Working on creating the set of Echo icon is quite fun but the lack of time, due to class and the development of Fedora 9 art theme ( shoowa as candidate), prevent me to progress to the point it won't be ready for Fedora 9. The big challenge is to make sure the guideline is easily comprehensive. The lesson on that project is a better planning. Speaking about Fedora 9 theme, it looks like Waves is the preferred for the development due to its organic shape opposed to Shoowa with its geometrical version. The difficulty is to incorporate those geometry that won't necessarily distract desktop users but subtle. Now that th...

[Français] Ainsi s'achève l'année 2007. Le Libre Graphic Meeting 2007 à Montréal a été le point tournant où j'ai pris la décision de commencer le cours sur les arts graphiques. Les icônes d'Echo n'ont pas été prêt pour Fedora 8 et le développement pour Fedora 9. Le portable XO a été un succès avec son lancement sous le programme G1G1 (Donnez un, recevez un) terminée le 31 décembre 2007. Pour 2008, le but est de compléter le developpement des icônes Echo pour Fedora 9, fournir en détail le tutoriel pour la création des icones isométriques, participer à certains projets de Fedora tout en ayant des classes des arts graphiques. Une fois de plus, Bonne Année. [English] 2007 is over. Montreal Libre Graphic Meeting 2007 was the turning point where I decided to take Graphic Design class for a year and half. Echo icons were not ready for Fedora 8 and pushed to Fedora 9 instead. XO laptop was a success with its G1G1 (give on get one) program which ended on 2007 December 31...

I am still around. I have being busy with Graphic Design assignment. The session is almost over and I will get time to focus on Fedora Artwork. Je suis la. J'ai été très occupe avec les travaux d'art graphique. La session est presque fini et j'aurai l'occasion de me concentrer sur Fedora Artwork.

Third week of Illustration class. I don't like the software much although I am learning new skills that can be transferable on Inkscape. Version 0.45 lacks blending mode and is available on development version. I noticed Adobe Illustrator allows grouping the layers so it is easier to organize them without so much effort. I wish Inkscape can perfectly import ai files from CS2 (it only has Illustrator 8 format). Currently, I save these exercises in ai and svg (File->Save as Web in Illustrator CS2) so I can work on Inkscape. What does it relate to the project? Expect improvement on echo-icon-theme which is planned for Fedora 9 and future artwork.

48x48 input-device 48x48 utilities-terminal Available draft icons . Utilities-terminal has shadow added while input-device is new. They will soon be published on the trunk of hosted.fedoraproject.org/hosted/echo-icon-theme/

In reply of Warren Togami's Live Journal , Koji icon was already done several ago but got ignored. It is still on the Design Service wiki page . It symbolize a rice covered with koji-kin using japanese style painting. Shoud you want to get an alternative, let me know.

It was my first even conference on Virtual FUDCon which greatly saved time and money. In summary, echo-icon-theme will not be ready for Fedora 8 given the time constrains. Its guideline needs a rewrite started by Martin Sourada. The icons are now residing on echo-icon-theme repository which facilitates the access for contributors looking to add/update the icons. It also means the wiki page for EchoDevelopment will no longer upload icons and will serve as reference. The mouse cursors are not in the repository yet but will be available shortly. Mairin, Fedora Artwork team leader, suggested to use Tango guideline for icons smaller or equal than 24x24 while keeping the isometric view for 32x32 and above. Demitri Glezos thanked the team for the use of icons on his Transifex project . The set of icons is roughly 40 percent complete and users of other desktop environment like KDE are encouraged to test them and provide ticket to track issues. Be in mind the echo-icon-theme division tea...

I am back to school to further enhance my art skills I have rediscovered with Fedora Art team. Keeping an open mind, I found the whole class much easier than expected. It is also challenging because it is the very first time I attended in English world school, the majority of school was done in French until now. Fortunately, the schedule is flexible enough to get a spare time to work on other projects. Watching Martin Sourada's effort to create a Clearlook replacement and the initial development of sound project, it looks like Fedora Art team is getting active. With a short time for Fedora 8, revamping the art will be more challenging.

It was time to say goodbye to Zod after backing up all my home data. Its soul is still in a DVD so I can retrieve it with Virtual Manager on Moonshine. The installer has a very good artwork. I feel like the layout could be improved. I have not gotten the opportunity to do it but I will prepare it for Fedora 8. One thing I wish to see on the installer is the size of package. Other than that, the installation was uneventful. The new desktop itself is very impressive with its fast-user-switch. It is now possible to switch session while keeping activities from the original. The icons on the upper panel still uses Bluecurve. It should be normally replaced with the default theme which is Mist. I have seen some users complaining about the absence of Echo icon theme, rest assured it is available on the repository. There were new icons added since then, it should be available soon. The blog was written with the LiveCD version that also provides the ability to easily resize Logical Volume Manage...

I spent time to clean svg icons from echo-icon-theme. The reason for the theme not set by default is due to librsvg 2.16.1 bugs found on some icons. I already modified some of them like audio-volume-high with a nice wave effects. The modified svg are already published on the wiki . As a result, creation on new icons is temporally on hold. Next week, I will go to Montreal for Libre Graphics Meeting . Flight ticket and hotel reservation are done. It will be my first time in five years. I have installed a sugar edition of Helix Player. Currently, it does not have a plugins to be played from a browser. I also tested Flash but playing a Youtube clip is jerky. I am now used to type from the XO machine. I intend to display that machine on a mall or small computer store in order to give some attraction about OLPC project.

I am writing this blog from the LiveDesktop Fedora 7 Test 3. I noticed the Echo icon is based on the old version as there is no new icons yet like Browser, Mail. It appears the index.list from Echo tarball is not updated. At this time, I am working on creating a flat keyboard icon close to the OLPC XO version. Some models are available on fedora-art-list . Note that the perspective is not correct which will be fixed later. I will use this model as the base of other variant like character input, keyboard shortcut to name few. On EchoDevelopment wiki , I noticed there is no name like shutdown. In that case, I will create a name for these new icons. Stuck with daily working life, the team is doing in best to complete the base stock icons along with the new cursor.