(where) should i publish my (amateur) designs?
Hi!
I've sometimes dabbled into "ha, look ma I can open a vector-based graphics editor!" which mostly consisted at "take this existing thing, ungroup, change colors, and add another random clip art".
my latest occurence is this monstrosity:
which i did by taking the purple tor logo, removing the letters, and slapping this open clip art in a really questionable attempt at making a design for the #tor-alerts matrix room.
i understand that non-graphic designers doing graphic design stuff probably trigger similar twitches than non-sysadmins doing sysadmin does to me (actually, I don't mind as much, to be honest, but I can definitely imaging this being twitchy), so I'm happy to accept "oh god please stop" as an answer, although i would also love to get "here's a better icon, phew" as well, of course.
otherwise: where should i put that stuff? is there a repository of hodge-podge designs like this that are not "UX-grade", official Tor stuff but stuff from the community that we could still cultivate?
and now that you're already a little prepared for the horrors I have in store, you should know i have a bunch more of those, probably even worse than the above offense. most of them are pretty dumb: just reusing the GitLab or Nextcloud logo, for example, but others are just clip art i took from elsewhere. a few examples:
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa has a bunch of icons like this, that's where you see the Prometheus, Nextcloud and GitLab logos, the latter being rather overused now
- the https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/wiki-replica is some disco ball open clip art, because i couldn't find a better logo for a "mirror"
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/schleuder is a slingshot because that's what schleuder means in german (it's true!)
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/anarcat/presentations is another open clipart, and if you think that one is ugly, you haven't seen the one before
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team is, rather infamously, based on https://0xacab.org/anarcat/apt-get-install-anarchism/
normally, i try to be pretty careful about licensing so it's stuff we have the right to use, but without a repository like this, it's actually pretty hard to keep track of where things come from.. nothing like a git commit log that says "taken from openclipart #foo" for tracability...
anyways, i figured we could have a ux-contrib or clipart-contrib repo somewhere... what do you think? anarcat/icons maybe?