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Notes/announcements
- Artists should add this to their watchlist, to receive updates when new projects are posted.
- See also Artist Roll Call for artists offering to collaborate.
- Artists can also check Ongoing Community Art Projects for ongoing projects that any/everyone can help with.
- For more general information, see Community:Art
For organization: Please put new projects at the top of the list. Completed projects should be removed or clearly marked as no longer applicable (I will create a space for completed art projects and link to it from here). --Nikki
Art Wanted
| Name | Project Description & Contact | Type of Art Needed | Artists Involved | Additional Information |
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| the title of your project | a project description & contact person (link to user page) | type of art (icons? character art? illustrations?) | who is working on it, so people can communicate | anything else you want to say |
| Health Portal poster | We could use a poster/flyer design incorporating the text of Health portal. See SJ | poster/ flyer | ||
| logo for Music and for Math | Can someone work on logos for the music and math portals, similar to the one for Health? See SJ. | Logos | DMSerley, for one. | ... |
| Forum menu icons | The community forum could use some better menu items. Currently, they are too generic to convey meaning (live chat, global map, calendar). See Mburns | Current style. We could really use some improvements on the following 5 icons: Forum / Live (IRC) Chat, volunteer global map, current events, support portal. | Themeing and general color changes are encouraged. | |
| Google push-pin XOs for Forum | The community forum, is going to have a Google Maps-provided page, showing what city (participating) developers and volunteers live in. Useful for meetups, organizations and awesome statistics. :) See Mburns | Icons; 15x15px transparent PNGs. | I would like XO icons with a couple different basic color combos. Volunteers, Developers, Translators, Educators, XO Users, etc... Pictures should be 15x15 pixel, transparent PNGs. The map marker guide explains it all. | |
| Simplified user guide graphics | Black and white or greyscale graphics of the XO to explain tasks with pictures instead of words. Top priorities are images showing the opening and flipping of the case, turning it on, charging the battery, plugging in peripherals, and a graphic of the XO created so that screenshots can fit into the graphic.
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Graphics: EPS or JPG, with text layers. | This would make a wonderful portfolio piece for someone. Please help. | There are several sample photos of the approximate areas we are trying to describe, in the laptop wiki. The general concept follows the Pixter manual's style as shown in this PDF.
The tool used for creation doesn't matter as much as the ability to reuse graphics in print or web, such as both EPS and JPG. Ideally it would be a program that uses layers for easier editing later. Especially important: text later separaable from the graphic for translation. There is further information about graphics formats for OLPC on choosing image formats. However, please keep in mind that we'd like to use these for print output, not just online output |
| Brazil Game Jam | The Brazil Game Jam needs artists - being in Brazil is not a requirement. See SJ, Mel, or Nikki | various art needed | n/a | The first Brazil Jam is over; another may be needed soon. |
| ISIS - Adventure Stories | adventure/rpg game creator, where children develop their adventure/rpg simple games, see Faga (August 2007) | Make simple images like a bag for inventory, screen's designs | Nobody yet. Please take this task! | |
| Redesign Activity Grid | The Activity Grid is where everyone (developers, contributors, and end-users, including kids) will learn about/download/use various .xo activities for the laptop. It needs to be easier and more pleasant to use - colors, graphics, icons, etc. See SJ Klein | Graphic/ webdesign | Needs an artist! | Would be great to have this done by the end of September for Release 2. |
| "Translate/ Translations" icon | Find or make an icon that means "translation/ multilingual/ translate." See Mel Chua | Icon | Eduardo | For use in templates, translations, multilingual books, etc. Simple, small (legible at 32x32px), square, scalable, preferably monotone. Think standard icons (albeit w/ the option of being monotone) or the rss icon. Ideally usable outside the OLPC project to mean "translate" as well... there may already be such a standard icon, but I can't find one - look first, and ask around. |
| Review Squad icon | Need a visual image that means "Review squad", our cadre of kid reviewers/testers (for both software and content). See Mel Chua | simple icon | Delucks, Eduardo | What we really need is a fifth "icon" (like the four "1" "laptop" "arrow" "xo" icons on the front of laptop.org) to denote "Review squad," a kid reviewing something. Perhaps the "xo" icon wearing a baseball cap, with lightbulb over their head, or pencil in hand? |
| Review Squad wikipage banner | Make a "splash banner" logo for the Review squad (for an example of a splash banner with text below it, look here - we want a similar picture w/o the text). See Mel Chua | wikipage banner | Eduardo | Needs review squad icon, above. It will be easy to make the logo/banner from there. |
| Review Squad OBX | Make an OBX for Review squad members to place on their userpages. See Mel Chua | OBX | Nobody yet. Please take this task! | Should use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above. |
| Review Squad webpage badges | Make little (static, animated, whatever) badges that people can put on their webpages to show membership in or support of the OLPC review squads. See Mel Chua | small webpage badges | Nobody yet. Please take this task! | Use the "Review squad" icon from the "Review squad icon" task above. There should be at least two badges - one for Review squad members (kids, under 18) and one for supporters, maybe a "Member of the OLPC Review Squad" and a "Join the OLPC Review Squad" one, respectively. |
| Summer of Content logo/shirt | Make a logo for the Summer of Content 2007 program, and a t-shirt design (they can be the same thing, or we can put a witty quote on the back of the t-shirt, or they can be two separate things, or whatever). Estimated work time < 6hr total including discussions, editing, and tweaking. See Mel Chua | Logo and shirt design. Vector graphics preferred, t-shirt design should use 3 colors or less if possible (bonus points for good-lookin' monochrome!) | I can do it. Anyone who has ideas or wants to collaborate can hit my talk page, though!--Nikki | This wasn't done for Summer 2007, but still needs doing for the next round. The Google Summer of Code logo looks like this. This logo will be used for everything in the Summer of Content 2007 program - and possibly the SoCon program in general. The T-shirt will be printed and sent out to the 100-odd mentors and interns working this summer. We'll send you one, too. |
| T-shirts | see MitchellNCharity | T-shirt designs and art | everyone and anyone: Ongoing Community Art Projects | |
| background creation | Nikki or Mel | vector art would probably work well for this, but I leave it to your discretion | everyone and anyone: Ongoing Community Art Projects | |
| resource creation | Create a collection of coin and bill images, from all the trial-2 Countries(green), as a resource for Activities. See MitchellNCharity (July 2007) | Searching out images on the web, and basic image processing to prepare them for use. | Nikki | Bills are usually easy. Coin images, if they haven't been already, need to be clipped to the coin (no border), and the background made transparent. PNG being the ideal format. See also Images of currency - coins and bills/notes.
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| VisionScreening Demo | visual acuity and other tests for vision screening. see MitchellNCharity. | toolbar icons: 'left eye covered', 'right eye covered', 'both eyes uncovered'. | none | Perhaps come by #olpc-content and chat. |
| support for activity programmers and artists | assist creation of iso-luminance palettes. see MitchellNCharity. | Find FOSS Lab or Munsell color pickers. And/or create tables of iso-luminance colors. | none | I want colorful activities. One obstacle is finding color values. Eg, "ok, I want a 128 gray line in direct sunlight, but I'd like it purple in color. What's the rgb value of a purple which becomes 128 gray in mono?". For tables, maybe {192,128,64,"very light, just a tint"} gray? In a few hues? Though finding a picker might be easier?
Xavi points out Munsell with a palette! :) A richer palette would be nice. We don't need to use Munsell's colorspace-smushing coordinates. There is also a Munsell color table in the sugar source. Display now has a code snippet which takes a gray-level, plus rgb, and returns a similar rgb which has roughly the given gray level.
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| olpc wiki | Create a video, composed of existing footage, selected for appeal to educators. To draw them in, and help build up the olpc educator community. See MitchellNCharity (June 2007) | video - clip selection, gathering and assembly. Finding good footage doesn't require editing skills, so that could be a separate task. | none | There is a lot of olpc-related video footage. Almost all unedited. When watching it, I think "oh, I wish I could show teacher friends that minute of that talk, and those seconds over there, and...". A video composed of these, perhaps posted in Educators, might help build up the educator community. |
| OLPC content bundles | Improve design, colors and icons in these bundles. See Arael dicts(at)centrum.cz | Nobody yet. Please take this task! |
