Paulo José - Brainstorm

Hi everybody, Currently I'm working on some few issues concerning icons. Proposal for "Saving Information" icons in Statusbar My fisrt email about this issue is last February dated. But recently I received some most special feedback, then I resume this issue. First iteration: Feedback: Style 1 with 3th symbol (upper right) is the best option. [1] [2] Orange is a good choice for indicating "new", since yellow would be hard to eyes. [1] [2] Smaller size (14x11px) fits better to the statusbar's size. [1] [2]   A new version is proposed to match the page's zoom icons style in statusbar. [2] Second iteration: Here I'm keeping just the previous Style 1, with 2th and 3th symbols and a different outline. A document symbol's version with gradients is included. The Styles 1 and 2 are 9px large (matching the page's zoom icon), otherwise the 3 and 4, 10px large. Feedback: 10px large seems better. [1] It should keep the differences...

Oops, I did it again! I mean, I did one banner more to The Challenge (now it's appear in my blog's sidebar too). (Click to see it bigger) SVG Source file: LibreOffice-The-Challenge-Banner-Paulo-v2-dark It uses the really great Nik's cartoons. Thank you Nik!  Actually I did it yesterday. I should do the light version today, but my classes just started and I had no time anymore... Now my clock marks 1:44 AM and I'll need wake up ~7:00 AM. Long seep to you. :P

Well, the last week was really a full-time working time to me, most because my university research came back to the road. So here is an insight of what I'm doing. LibreOffice wallpapers Thanks to feedback by the LibreOffice's Marketing Team, I improved my first wallpapers with the LibreOffice's Initial Mimetype Icons, normalizing the logo and increasing their size. Many thanks to they! Finally, I skipped from GIMP's post-production and re-edited everything in Blender's Node Compositor. Wallpapers 1: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10): Wallpapers 1: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3): Wallpapers 2: 1920x1080px Widescreen (16:10): Wallpapers 2: 1600x1200px Fullscreen (4:3): The Challenge's Banners The LibreOffice Challenge : EUR 50 000 for the Foundation. Donate now for an effective, efficient, transparent, and inclusive community! This a actual challenge and I'm sure it's achieve success! :) But the Website Mail Listing guys are needing some ...

Hi guys, here we go with more 3D stuff: Update (16 feb 2011): The second wallpaper was updated to correct some incorrect vertexes on 3D meshes. The most perceptive error was in the triangle on top right corner of the Base icon. Now they all look fine. :D [Blender + Gimp] - The PNG files are huge (almost 1MB each one), so here you find JPG versions : Wallpaper 1 - Wallpaper 2 These are my first wallpapers since I started to play with 3D models of LibreOffice new icon set . The first one have no much perspective and the light source come from the backside. It's the because icons have less saturated color. The second still have the back light source, but this arrangement and camera perspective make the scene darker. Please, make your choice. :P Design team, sorry for change the color of the symbol and the "Document Foundation" text.  It was done to make them seem more native in  this "light style", and in mean time empathize the Libre Office name too ....

There are some years that I work with Blender, an open source 3D program. I love to play with 3D, making an simple idea become true. Although, my first try to mix Blender and LibreOffice was put a bit of the Blender's User Interface in the LibreOffice's User Interface. So today I thought "Why not put a few of LibreOffice in Blender too?" Yeah! Here is a try: It's just a 3D model of the Writer document icon from LibreOffice's new branding. For now I made it for fun, but maybe it can be useful to marketing stuff or something else, I don't know. :)

I keep doing progress in Bachianas Brasileiras templates. Last days I was experiencing an apparently rare bug of Impress, which forbid me to save more than one background in a only Open Document Presentation (ODP format). But now I discovered a way to solve partially the problem [see my comment ] and already made the first version (still Work In Progress - version 0.1). Because the bug, Impress can make few mistakes opening the file, so be patient when trying it. Download from LibreOffice Wiki page All the backgrounds are in 1600x1200px PNG format. The first color theme is Green 1, and the next will be Blue 2, Orange Accent and Purble 1 - all picked from the current LibreOffice palette . For the typography, my options are limited since I don't know how to include (or even if it's possible) a font source in the template file yet. So my choice was the beautiful an sans-serifed Ubuntu's font . There's something special in this font that wins me since the first time. ...

Hi everyone, My name is Paulo José, a 20 years old Brazilian (Opa brasucas!). I'm starting this blog to share my learning process while a -recent- member of the LibreOffice design team. Here I'll try to focus on my interesting topics in the computing world as Design, OpenSource, Usability, Accessibility, User Experience and Computer Graphics. This is my first words on my first personal blog, so I wanna make it too good as can be done! So I'm happy to show you a little piece of design that I'm working in. They are few simple templates for LibreOffice Impress, using our new branding colors suggested by Christoph Noack. I call them the "Bachianas Brasileiras No.1" (I explain after the break). Everything began when Kevin Soviero sent a message to the LibreOffice design mail listing suggesting we could make new Impress templates. I love the idea, because I usually have no time to make a good looking presentation when I need one... So I'm on my vacations...