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The Ubuntu Art Team strives to establish and maintain a consistent and familiar look to themes, artwork, wallpapers and other graphics for Ubuntu. The Ubuntu Art Team strives to establish and maintain a consistent and familiar look to themes, artwork, wallpapers and other graphics for Ubuntu. For information on joining the Art Team please check out the Contact & Joining section further below.
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 * '''WebsiteButtons''' is a nice collection of "Powered by Ubuntu" buttons to look at, comment, edit, and use as reference. This, as mentioned above, should be cleaned up by the art team to include the officially endorsed set.  * '''WebsiteButtons''' is a nice collection of "Powered by Ubuntu" buttons to look at, comment, edit, and use as reference. This, as mentioned above, '''should be cleaned up''' by the art team to include the officially endorsed set.
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 * This '''[http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopArtwork Breezy specification]''' outlines some of the artwork goals for Breezy (realistically, not all of this is possible).  * This '''[http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopArtwork Breezy specification]''' outlines some of the artwork goals for Breezy (realistically, not all of this is possible). The page is out of date though does contain a lot of useful information and good ideas that ought to be preservered for consideration in regards to Dapper.
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 * '''HumilityIcons''' - Ubuntu-specific icon set project. This really needs an update to where it is going.  * '''HumilityIcons''' - Ubuntu-specific icon set project. For more information please see the reference to this icon set under the Scope section, above.
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If you are interested in becoming a member of the team, and think you've got the experience needed - please put your name on the list below: The following are members of the Art Team:
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= Contact & Joining =

If you would like to contact the art team please feel free to do so. We discuss a lot of topics through the mailing list, '''[http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art ubuntu-art]''' as well as on the '''{{{#ubuntu-artwork}}}''' freenode IRC channel. As mentioned above these chats a logged (see Resources). Individual members can be contact as listed above (see Members).

As for joining, feel free to add yourself to the members list if you are interested in contributing to the Ubuntu Art!

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Ubuntu Art Team

The Ubuntu Art Team strives to establish and maintain a consistent and familiar look to themes, artwork, wallpapers and other graphics for Ubuntu. For information on joining the Art Team please check out the Contact & Joining section further below.

Scope

Ultimately, the Art Team should be responsible for all art-related aspects of the Ubuntu distribution. In many of these cases, there is already a plethora of art available. Part of the challenge facing the Art Team is:

  • how to organise that material,
  • how to make it accessible,
  • how to have an appropriate level of consistency (e.g., many of the promotional items work best when there is only one item of a given class, a single look and feel, etc).

The Art Team started post Hoary and thus ought to have had enough time to settle in. Below are some of the goals we want to work towards:

  • The Art Team should develop and select six desktop calendar images to be used within the Breezy release cycle and thenceforth. The desktops can be selected in any method the team chooses. Disputes, if any, will be resolved by the CommunityCouncil. This was a Breezy goal, and should continue to be something the Art Team should work to produce.

  • We would like to develop an Ubuntu-specific icon set. [mailto:andrew@fitzsimon.com.au Andy Fitzsimon] has begun this, starting with a theme called "Etiquette". Some of the other members have inquired about this icon set namely in regards to adding to it themselves. This icon set was a Breezy goal, though definitely should remain on the list as a Dapper goal. An update on what is happening would be appreciated. For now, all contributions should be made to the tango icon theming project http://www.tango-project.org as naming specification and visual metaphors from the project are being preserved.

  • There should be official "powered by Ubuntu" or buttons (or similar) developed. Many community members have made versions of these. The Art Team should select those which should be officially endorsed and make them readily available (note that while new art solicitations are encouraged, there is a danger to having too many variants of the same object). This should be a near term goal, especially for it is something that is simple and could be done in an evening.

  • Many community members would like to have posters and banners which can be printed for use in local conferences. The Art Team should establish some standard promotional material. There are already some marketing and promotional materials available on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing DIYMarketing] page. Perhaps the Art Team can have a look at what is already there, incorporate it to whatever the Art Team wishes to also create and then update that page. This should be a near term goal.

  • The Art Team should identify the tools and processes needed to organise themselves and the artwork. This wiki should be used where appropriate; Canonical has established an art site available for purposes not as well suited to a wiki (art.ubuntu.com). It is running the art-web system which has had some criticism in regards to it's functionality. The Art needs to decide what it wants and consult with some of the people who set it up. There is a to-do page [http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fToDo on the GNOME] wiki which has outlines some suggested improvements that could be made to the art-web system. There is a wiki page to discuss this: UbuntuArtWebsite.

  • In the future (likely post-Breezy, due to current timelines), we would like to rely on the Art Team for other aspects of the distro (e.g., login, splash, etc). This was a long term goal and should now begin to become a short term goal.

Resources

  • ArtTeamTools covers the tools you'll need to start making and helping with the Artwork project

  • IconGuide for all ArtTeam members who would like to help contribute to the production of the Icon set. This page really requires an update. You do not have to be an artist to help out.

  • WebsiteButtons is a nice collection of "Powered by Ubuntu" buttons to look at, comment, edit, and use as reference. This, as mentioned above, should be cleaned up by the art team to include the officially endorsed set.

  • UbuntuTitle is the official Ubuntu font used in the ubuntu logo. It is released under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html LGPL].

Reference sites

Projects

  • HumilityIcons - Ubuntu-specific icon set project. For more information please see the reference to this icon set under the Scope section, above.

Related Pages

Members

The following are members of the Art Team:

Technical contact (packaging, uploads etc):

= Contact & Joining =

If you would like to contact the art team please feel free to do so. We discuss a lot of topics through the mailing list, [http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art ubuntu-art] as well as on the #ubuntu-artwork freenode IRC channel. As mentioned above these chats a logged (see Resources). Individual members can be contact as listed above (see Members).

As for joining, feel free to add yourself to the members list if you are interested in contributing to the Ubuntu Art!

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