Design Artwork and Branding Project Proposal

People interested in active contribution

OOo user name (NAME@openoffice.org)	wiki user name	real name	active in other projects	interested in	comment
bedipp	BeDipp	Bernhard Dippold	art, marketing, (website, UX)	organizing and coordinating with other projects
christophnoack	ChristophNoack	Christoph Noack	UX	representing UX interests	visual design is an essential part of what the user experiences when using the product and our services
ivantm	Ivanm	Ivan Miskovic	art, website and (to a lesser extent) UX	making OOo look great in every possible way	a strong and consistent visual identity will see more downloads, website visitors, etc.
overkill	Overkill	Nikash Singh	Art	Contributing graphics and generally helping out	The hard work done throughout OOo should be reflected in a new, equally impressive, consistent Design.
jensgh	JensGH	Jens Habermann	Art, Marketing	everything graphics
Chs	Chs	Charles-H. Schulz	NLC, ODF@WWW	Got some "skunkworks" going on at the ODF@www project, incl. the "Pinneberg Files" (check out this wiki) and this initiative cannot ignore this one :-)
rosana_a	rosana_a	Rosana Ardila	Marketing	interested in a consistent and strong OOo branding
maple1249	maple1249	Connor Montgomery	UX	Website, UI, and UX in particular, but open to anything!	Visual design/UI is the first impression we make on the user(s). The more enjoyable/consistent we make it, the more users we have the ability to not only get, but keep as permanent users.
ismaelgrammenidis	Ismaelgrammenidis	Ismaël Grammenidis	nl, fr	Web Design, Visual Identity (branding)	Create a consistent and strong visual identity on international and local (native language) level.
yorick_	Yorick	Graham Lauder	Marketing, Website, UX	Interested in Strong vibrant branding, particularly from a Marketing point of view	OOo is an internet based product. Users, to interface with OOo, in the vast majority of cases, first have to come via the internet to connect with the community, to learn about, to download. There are no bright display stands in shops, no fancy packaging, no high visibility multimedia marketing campaigns and therefore we are dealing with a different branding paradigm. Different elements of the branding become more important. Despite assertions to the contrary the internet is a text based medium, in this paradigm therefore, the most recognisable branding elements are not the gulls or the colours but two strings of text. One with 14 text characters including 2 uppercase Os: "OpenOffice.org" and one with 3 characters: two uppercase Os and 1 lower case: "OOo". Any visual branding has to leverage this basic fact
Mirek2	Mirek2	Miroslav Mazel	UX, marketing, website	pretty much anything: art, proposals, discussion, ...