Dearadh Oscailte Abú! (Open Design Forever!)
I wanted to give you an update on the status of the Fedora Design team’s interns. We currently have two interns on our team: Mary Shakshober – (IRC: mshakshober) Mary started her internship full time this summer and amongst other things designed the beautiful, Polish folk art-inspired Flock 2016 logo. She’s currently working limited hours …
Hubs and Chat Integration Basics One of the planned features of Fedora Hubs that I am most excited about is chat integration with Fedora development chat rooms. As a mentor and onboarder of designers and other creatives into the Fedora project, I’ve witnessed IRC causing a lot of unnecessary pain and delay in the onboarding …
Two weekends ago now, we had a 2-day Fedora Activity Day (heh, a 2-day day) for the Fedora Design Team. We had three main goals for this FAD, although one of them we didn’t cover (:-() : Hold a one-day badges hackfest – the full event report is available for this event – we have …
This past weekend, the Fedora Design Team held an Inkscape and Fedora Badges workshop at Red Hat’s office in Westford, Massachusetts. (You can see our public announcement here.) Why did the Fedora Design Team hold this event? At our January 2015 FAD, one of the major themes of things we wanted to do as a …
This morning I got an email from my colleague Tyler Golden who was seeking advice on good places to get openly-licensed content so I put together a list. It seems the list would be generally useful (especially for my new design interns, who will be blogging on Planet Fedora soon 🙂 ) so here you …
What’s going on with Hubs? So a little update for those not following closely to get you up to date: We have a big milestone we’re working towards – a working version of Fedora Hubs in time for Flock. It won’t have all of the bells and whistles of the mockups that we’ve presented, but …
Designing a logo can be intimidating and the process full of alternating between hope and despair. I recently designed a logo for the team of a friend I work with, and for whatever reason (perhaps mindfulness practice) I decided to try to track the process visually and note my general thinking in choosing a forward …
I was working on Fedora Hubs and I needed a nice icon for Hyperkitty for some feed widget mockups I was working on. I really love the updated Pagure logo Ryan Lerch made for pagure.io: Pagure and Hyperkitty, you know, they are kind of cousins, so they should look like they are part of the …
It’s been quite a while since I’ve done one of these posts – actually, five years – lol – but no reason not to pick an old habit back up! 🙂 Montserrat is a sans serif font created by Julieta Ulanovsky inspired by the street signs of the Montserrat neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is …
I’ve been posting these to the design-team mailing list lately but thought it might be good to blog, too. Meeting Summary We had a meeting today. In attendance were myself, ryanlerch, gnokii, mleonova, riecatnor, sam08, mbriza, garrett, and tatica. Meetbot links: Summary: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2015-10-22/fedora-design.2015-10-22-12.00.html Log: https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-design/2015-10-22/fedora-design.2015-10-22-12.00.log.html Here’s a quick run-through of what we discussed: Presentation to …