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2.12 Splash Screen Winner

Submitted by thos on Tue, 2005-09-06 13:34. Gnome Art
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The winner of the 2.12 splash screen competition is GNOME in Silk - evolving 2 by Xilef. The new splash screen will be used in the official GNOME 2.12 release in a few days.

As Garrett LeSage was on vacation for the end of the contest so he wasn't able to select a winner. However, Jakub "jimmac" Steiner (of gnome-icon-theme fame) stepped in and chose this splash screen as his favourite, and also selected some runners up (see below). His reasons for this choice were:

"While generally it's better to be conservative when dealing with a high profile logo such as GNOME, Felix Dietze managed to experiment with the gnome foot shape bringing a new, refreshing look onto the GNOME desktop."

"The splash is well executed even when using extravagant title cropping. As will any good artwork the interpretation is left to the viewer. A dissolving pill relieving of the configuration headaches was my first impression."

This wallpaper by the same artist also goes very well with the splash screen

Jimmac also chose a list of runners up that needed special mention:







Garrett will be choosing a splash screen for the design of the developer 2.13 splash, so there is still a chance for any entries who didn't make it to the 2.12 shortlist!

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Dr. Scholl's meets Alka-Seltzer? by Anonymous George
Need for a splash screen by Anonymous George
Nice! by Anonymous George

not the best of choices...

Submitted by marco_craveiro on Wed, 2005-09-07 14:03.

gnomers,

gotta agree with most people here. man, talk about shooting yourself in the foot :-) lets hope ubuntu comes up with something better...

soup++
--
One man's constant is another man's variable. -- Alan Perlis

Worst Default Splash Screen Selection Ever.... by jsight
It's not a foot by Anonymous George

Coming apart

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-09-07 08:27.

The image is very pretty, but it looks as if the Gnome project is disintegrating.

That exactly was my very

Submitted by robsta on Wed, 2005-09-07 15:04.

That exactly was my very first thought too ...
Still I think it's ok.

Artwork done with non-GNOME software by digitect
Yup i also think that GNOME by Anonymous George

hrm...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-09-06 17:21.

hrm... pretty, but it took a full 5 seconds of staring to figure out what that random white shape actually is... conceptually neat, but not good gnome branding at all.

The foot is nice

Submitted by knipknap on Tue, 2005-09-06 16:35.

The foot is nice, the fonts don't go too well with the image though. Especially the "2.12" looks a bit out of place there. Anyway, a better result than what came from other contests IMO.

Looks like GNOME feet were

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-09-06 16:15.

Looks like GNOME feet were hit by a fungal infection... :)

Interpretation by Anonymous George

Heh :))

Submitted by saxa on Tue, 2005-09-06 15:49.

Is the GNOME logo composing or decomposing ?

Rgds
Saxa

Composing

Submitted by thos on Wed, 2005-09-07 05:07.

I actually thought it looked like the foot was composing.

"It's all coming together!"

Decaying

Submitted by drunkahol on Wed, 2005-09-07 04:12.

My thoughts exactly.

The first thing that I thought of was athletes foot. Not an image I want to associate with Gnome.

The thumbnail kind of looks like the foot is an Alkaseltzer fizzing away in a glass of water.

The blue is a tad too bright

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-09-06 17:32.

The blue is a tad too bright - also, it is reminiscent of the blue of many KDE stuff.

Eew!!!! by Anonymous George