Dear all,
we are still discussing about the layout of the WLM calendar.
Current status is: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-calendar
I have been talking to some friends about the design of the calendars. Two things:
1. The size of the images: Is the designer allowed to cut / crop the images to make them fit into the design? Of course, within reasonable margins, with commons sense. I have attached an example of the lol porn calendar, which I find quite nice. But since we have different formats and sizes of images (imagine one image like this on the page: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/St_petersburg_4.jpg...), it would anyway be difficult to have all pages look equally nice.
2. Do we really want these blank fields for handwritten notes? In my opinion, the calendar should be more like an art calendar than a "practical" thing. Everyone carries around their calendars in their pockets, you don't need to "disrupt" the well and cleanly designed calendar by writing some stuff on it. The value of the calendar lies in the images, not in the calendar feature.
What do you think? Add your comments to the etherpad, please.
Best, Nicole
2011/11/21 Nicole Ebber nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de:
Dear all,
we are still discussing about the layout of the WLM calendar.
Current status is: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-calendar
I have been talking to some friends about the design of the calendars. Two things:
- The size of the images: Is the designer allowed to cut / crop the
images to make them fit into the design? Of course, within reasonable margins, with commons sense. I have attached an example of the lol porn calendar, which I find quite nice. But since we have different formats and sizes of images (imagine one image like this on the page: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/St_petersburg_4.jpg...),
I am not quite sure if it is good idea to make this calendar in portrait possition - as vast majority of WLM pictures are rather landscapes. Anyway cropping will be necessary. Morever the Jury is about to choose 10 pictures - not 12... so I guess we can add 2 winning pictures from Europeana "Art Noveau" constest to have 12 ?
I agree with Tomasz, I think that horinzontal position is better for the most of the photos in the contest.
Elisardojm
2011/11/21 Tomasz Ganicz polimerek@gmail.com
2011/11/21 Nicole Ebber nicole.ebber@wikimedia.de:
Dear all,
we are still discussing about the layout of the WLM calendar.
Current status is: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-calendar
I have been talking to some friends about the design of the calendars. Two things:
- The size of the images: Is the designer allowed to cut / crop the
images to make them fit into the design? Of course, within reasonable margins, with commons sense. I have attached an example of the lol porn calendar, which I find quite nice. But since we have different formats and sizes of images (imagine one image like this on the page:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/St_petersburg_4.jpg... ),
I am not quite sure if it is good idea to make this calendar in portrait possition - as vast majority of WLM pictures are rather landscapes. Anyway cropping will be necessary. Morever the Jury is about to choose 10 pictures - not 12... so I guess we can add 2 winning pictures from Europeana "Art Noveau" constest to have 12 ?
-- Tomek "Polimerek" Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29&title=tomasz-ganicz
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Hum.... I've done one for the swiss contest, if it is useful I can send the individual month pages in svg without the pictures...
It is a simple one, but all the printing details have been review by a professional
Cheers
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-----Message d'origine----- De : wikilovesmonuments-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikilovesmonuments-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] De la part de Nicole Ebber Envoyé : lundi, 21. novembre 2011 13:05 À : Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition Objet : [Wiki Loves Monuments] Update: Designing Wiki Loves Monuments calendars
Dear all,
we are still discussing about the layout of the WLM calendar.
Current status is: http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/WLM-calendar
I have been talking to some friends about the design of the calendars. Two things:
1. The size of the images: Is the designer allowed to cut / crop the images to make them fit into the design? Of course, within reasonable margins, with commons sense. I have attached an example of the lol porn calendar, which I find quite nice. But since we have different formats and sizes of images (imagine one image like this on the page: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/St_petersburg_4.jpg /600px-St_petersburg_4.jpg), it would anyway be difficult to have all pages look equally nice.
2. Do we really want these blank fields for handwritten notes? In my opinion, the calendar should be more like an art calendar than a "practical" thing. Everyone carries around their calendars in their pockets, you don't need to "disrupt" the well and cleanly designed calendar by writing some stuff on it. The value of the calendar lies in the images, not in the calendar feature.
What do you think? Add your comments to the etherpad, please.
Best, Nicole
-- Nicole Ebber Projektmanagerin
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