I'm not a designer, but I played around anyway. I was inspired by how the old Fedora FUDCon logo used the shape of the Fedora logo without using the whole thing, to give it its own identity. So I just pulled the yellow arrow out and made a banner that would work on social media.

Also, Davide suggested we use the rebranding as an opportunity to move Connect off the wiki to its own site. So if anybody wants to take a crack at a site design for that, go ahead. I'll probably play with it a bit, but I'm not great.

Other variations I've played with:

Hi @shaunm, thanks for these images and comments. I would propose to keep the CentOS logo design in the presentation, and build the entire Connect event message on top of it. Here is an example for social media, and vinyl banner maybe:

If we get too far from CentOS original logo design, the relation between the CentOS project and its event may be confusing to perceive. This, considering that Connect event is part of CentOS Project and not the other way around. Visually speaking, the Connect event identity is subordinated to CentOS Project identity. If that is not the case, it would be helpful to know in order to build a different message.

I opened a gitlab repository to track fosdem promotion stuff, here: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/artwork/centos-promotion/fosdem

Test design using neuron synapse artistic motif:

Also some desaturated variants:

These are brilliant. We're working on a website, sources here: https://git.centos.org/centos/connect

I'm going to take a crack at doing this as the banner. For social media banners, we have to watch the text size.

It would be cool to do a variant for a vertical retractable banner, but without dates so we can reuse it.

Also, I wonder if we could just do that synapse image standalone on a tshirt, with the CentOS logo on the back or sleeve.

Hi @shaunm,

Website banner and social media: Please, go for it! The source files and high resolution images of neuron synapse artistic motif are available at https://gitlab.com/CentOS/artwork/centos-motif/-/tree/c10. Feel free to play with them and create your own versions.

CentOS Connect website: Is there any chance to reuse jekyll and jekyll-theme-centos at CentOS Connect website in the future? I understand it may not fit the connect website needs at the moment, but it would be really useful to know what those needs are, to consider them during the redesign. Also, to concentrate our website design forces in a single, reusable place.

T-shirt, and vertical variant: Sure thing! :D I'll take some time next weekend for it. In the mid-time, I am wondering if it is possible to ask the printer provider about the image specifications it recommends for the image we should provide, related to both t-shirt and vinyl media. For example, exact image size, points per inch (ppi), allowed colors, and so forth. If they can share some samples with us would be perfect.

Could I get a version of the background that's either really wide, or that fades to a solid color on the left and right? Here's my progress so far on the site (I prefer to put more emphasis on the word Connect):

In the connect website specific case we could remove the centos logo entirely from the image, it is already on the website. So, the Connect word would take all the attention, without loosing the visual connection with CentOS brand. Let me try something real quick, also adding the fading effect into plain color.

just to see how it looks, let's try this one on website:

Probably the left and right margin need to be tuned-up a bit.

I like that a lot. I want to do the text in HTML so it's accessible and I can adjust it for mobile. Can I get centos-connect-c10-bg.png with the blended edges?

Here, with blended edges and no text:

The plain color background should be #12011f to achieve a smooth transition.

The plain color background should be #12011f to achieve a smooth transition.

Just looking at connect.centos.org and the image borders looks not as expected with the value I previously provided. Used the browser color picker and the #180022 color seems to be the correct one to reach the smooth blended effect.

This is weird, the blending with background color of #12011 doesn't look good in firefox but it does look good in chrome :/ . It is the same image in both cases.

Strange. I use Firefox and I'm not seeing that.

There are three things I'd like to do with this motif still: shirts, banners, and badges. (I think I've got badges in decent shape myself.) I can also ask designers in Red Hat to take a crack at stuff. There's no reason you have to draw everything, Alain.

Question: would you prefer I file separate issues for these things on the FOSDEM project you created on GitLab? Then we can close this issue. Seems like that would be easier to track.

Thanks @shaunm , it would be fantastic to have Red Hat designers openly involved in FOSDEM artwork. Or, even better, see some of them joining the Artwork SIG :) It would be a great learning experience and motivation for people wishing to contribute artwork to CentOS.

Question: would you prefer I file separate issues for these things on the FOSDEM project you created on GitLab? Then we can close this issue. Seems like that would be easier to track.

Yes. Opening an issue at FOSDEM project to track FOSDEM artwork is perfect.

Best regards.

• Badges: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/artwork/centos-promotion/fosdem/-/issues/1
• Banners: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/artwork/centos-promotion/fosdem/-/issues/2
• Shirts: https://gitlab.com/CentOS/artwork/centos-promotion/fosdem/-/issues/3

Closing this issue. Followup for specific uses at linked project.