How about contacting the French Graphic Team? They've produced tons of illustrations (mostly maps) and they might be able to give some pointers on the possible workflows. (Well, I'm not sure if they even collaborate on the level we need, but they're successful in setting quality standards that other people adhere to.)
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 1:05 AM, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.comwrote:
2009/6/9 Stefan Weber design@sweber.de:
Hi Brianna, it´s not the money, I´m wondering what going on with the project itself? No other round, the first round was closed before I could asigned next illustration and so on. Is´t still alive?
I think it is safe to say that it won't continue in its current format (how Round 1 was conducted). It is too time intensive to be done properly, and having it done poorly would not benefit anyone IMO.
To explain a bit, I consider "done properly" to include
- evaluating suggestions
** for worthiness ** for suitability as illustration ** for availability of third party references
- finding self-suggestions when needed
- conducting moderately thorough check to make sure no free image
seems to exist yet
- describing the request sufficiently so that an illustrator has
enough information to understand what the request is for
- reviewing submissions, including
** checking against reliable third party references ** checking for basic SVG features (text as text, good colour contrasts)
So the question of "what next" is a bit up in the air. It's perhaps possible that the scope of the project might be able to shift a bit, although this is not certain. So I would say, if you have some interesting idea about how to conduct a project like this, feel free to the idea forward now.
cheers Brianna
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