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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST: KDE Icons
From:       Andreas Schlapbach <schlpbch () iam ! unibe ! ch>
Date:       2004-03-03 21:39:04
Message-ID: 200403032239.04146.schlpbch () iam ! unibe ! ch
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Dear K-Artisits

I would like to make a strong point for Everaldo's sixth point. The issue at 
stake is not about open source versus closed source, it's about art.

Creating a icon set is like creating a typeface. If one letter doesn't match, 
it ruins the whole font, if the kerning isn't right, the font is unusable. 
This is what distinguish great typography from the average fonts you get for 
free everywhere. In a perfect font face everything matches, the kerning is 
just right and it looks and feels just perfect.

Look a Univers. It was created by one person with a strict vision of how a 
font face has to be. If there would have been many people working one it, it 
would have been a set of letters without an overall concept and design in 
mind. This is patchwork, but not art.

I think Everaldo has a vision of how to create great icon sets. Let him 
realize his vision. We don't want patchwork, we want art.

Andreas

> > > > > 6- I am really not satisfied with the fact that many icons are
> > > > > modified before they are included at CVS (as the konqueror arrows
> > > > > for example, besides many others) I really hope that this will
> > > > > stop.
> > > >
> > > > That is called "open source". If you have a better idea that makes
> > > > everyone happy, make it, check it in and set the resolution of the
> > > > bug to "fixed". Once again, if you are the only one who is allowed to
> > > > change anything, then do everything and make everyone happy.
> > > > Otherwise they will change it because that is how things work in the
> > > > open source world.
> > > >
> > > > There is much more to making the artwork of KDE than what you think,
> > > > although the part that you do is where the magic comes in, and
> > > > must be treated accordingly. The artist will always be the most
> > > > important part of the process, but the artist alone is not
> > > > responsible for all of the work, otherwise the artist would be mired
> > > > down in mindless day-to-day affairs of little or no interest to
> > > > him/her.

-- 
Andreas Schlapbach		PhD student
Artifical Intelligence Group
University of Berne

http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~schlpbch/

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