Hi Sam,
As I understand it, the beach represents utopia/freedom (semantics are relaxation, beauty, physical freedom, natural), the pixelation represents a barrier/restrictions (semantics are unnatural, obfuscation, digital, censorship), and the text reinforces these two, "Freedom Springs" and "Wish you were here!" (either sarcastic or encouraging, depending on your interpretation). Similar to an environmentalist campaign using a photo of a beach covered in oil.
I had worried about this being too ambiguous or
difficult to communicate clearly when the idea first came around but
thought we'd agreed to go ahead with it.
I think it's a fairly compelling piece of design, its ambiguity (with clear digital connotations from the pixelation, and clearly speaking about Freedom given the text) should be enticing enough that people who are interested in our campaign want to read the back of it. That's my hope, anyway.
I've placed the images in a clone and have requested a merge (from kofutofu).
I feel it's worth mentioning that after reading through Gitorious' terms of service (
http://en.gitorious.org/tos/), I'm convinced that the images in our repository that incorporate sources for which we don't have permission to use (plenty of concept work for example), are against these terms of service. Therefore I'd suggest that we move this project to a private GIT repository, as I don't feel we can legitimately complain about software and service freedom, while at the same time ignoring these restrictions ourselves.
As a side note, I'd argue that SVN would seem more appropriate for a project like this. We're mostly dealing with binary blobs, so all version control gives up is the
On that cheerful note, I wonder how many of us read the terms of service before signing up?
Lastly, concerning Anna's point, "Which we have here?" isn't clear to me.
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