[image:189,right]I just completed the promotional materials for Drupal project, attending its first large-scale IT venue, LinuxTag in Germany.
The promotional set consists of the brochure (PDF) and the poster (PDF). You can see these materials on this picture, capturing the action in the venue-booth.
Two lessons learned in this project:
- Remote collaborative development model, used in Drupal programming, does not work in graphic design. Graphic design requires a whole new set of tools making this sort of workflow run smoothly. We used the mix of IRC, mailing lists and project management software, but it all turned out clunky and slowed the design process down seriously. (At the same time, the whole Drupal crew was really supportive and a joy to work with. Thank you!)
- Cutting-edge transparency features present in InDesign are not always supported by the print houses. The problematic procedure is called flattening and it seems that the German print house we used was not able to interpret the printfile correctly. The ugly side-effect of this are the black bands on the poster background (it was not a part of the original design).
Update: Faults mentioned above seem not to be InDesign fault as Gerhard (the guy with Drupal brochures in his pocket) explains.
The poster was not printed by
The poster was not printed by the printer that printed the leaflets (which are without those bands). The bands were caused by my incorrect handling of the files you sent me. I had asked a collegue how those files displayed under windows and he told me “they don't”. Then I started to play around with the files with the tools I have (some commandline tools for ps and pdf file conversion). Among the files I created was the one that was finally printed. I had also versions which were fine. Unfortunately all those versions ended up on the same CD, the CD burner shortened all filenames to DOS filenames, and when I was at the printer I had to choose a file only based on the file size. I chose the wrong one and that was that.
Would be interested to read a
Would be interested to read about the difference in workflow (regarding communications side) when dealing with design in collaborative project. Perhaps could learn something.
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found this page in your entry
found this page in your entry about the history of the drupal logo.. and must admit i really like the poster :)
interesting to learn a bit about the history of drupal
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