Three GNOME Posters

Continuing my work with GNOME promotional material, I designed the following three posters. They are large (1189 × 841 mm; 46 ¾ × 33 in), black and white, and somewhat plain. Their size is meant to draw people in when groups of volunteers are presenting the project at trade shows and conferences. They are black and white to keep production costs low. They are plain because I wouldn’t know how to design them otherwise and I like them that way. ;-)

The theme is “values of the GNOME Project” which I chose to define with those three words: freedom, intelligence, respect. Each word actually represents several of the qualities GNOME embodies. I still have to write the short texts detailing what those are. “Freedom” should explain the benefits of GNOME’s GPL and LGPL licenses. “Intelligence” should illustrate the ways in which GNOME strives to be a smart, integrated, easy-to-use environment. “Respect” should be about the importance of interoperability, accessibility and internationalization.

To give you an idea of how large these posters are, I marked on a scaled-down image of one of them an area which is shown full-size, on a 300 DPI export, next to it. What you’re seeing is a footer which appears on all posters and reads “The GNOME Desktop and Developer Platform – www.gnome.org.”