Re: [Gaim-cabal] Artists

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 8/25/06, Tim Ringenbach <om...@ho...> wrote:
> Remind me again why we're getting new artwork. How much of this is legal
> and how much is just we want new art work?

80 want / 20 legal?

> Maybe I'm alone in this, but I always liked the way the prpl icons
> actually looked like the prpls they represented. It's interesting the
> way purple comes in all shapes and colors ;)

This isn't something we're likely to change. They should still all
look like the appropriate logo, but they'll be a more consistent look
to all of them.

> What do the different shapes and colors represent in Stephen's thing?
> Also, what did you tell each of these people? I noticed there's no prpl
> in Stephen's, is that because he ignored you or because you didn't
> mention that?

I didn't tell them anything other than "mockup a screenshot." While
I'm open to any UI suggestions they make (hence the oh-so-loved rules
hint in the blist), they're just being hired to draw pretty pictures.

> What exactly are we going for here? Will there still be different prpl
> icons, or just Pidgin Dude icons? (In either case, Should the Pidgin
> Dude be a bird [actual, or Bugs Bunny style]?)
> Both artist seem to depart from how we currently do things, but in
> different ways. Are emblems gone, or staying, or representing new
> things? Stephen's seems like it replaced emblems with different icons.

I kinda dig the emblems-to-the-right thing, actually, but that's
another discussion. This is just about pretty pictures.

> It seems more like you're letting the artist decide things that seems
> more like design decisions on our part (and require code changes).

I'm not. I just asked them to make mockups to get a feel for their
style. The only decisions they're making is what the icons should look
like, and that has to meet our approval anyway.

-s.