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2.12 Splash Screen Winner

Submitted by thos on Tue, 2005-09-06 13:34. Gnome Art

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!