CDSleeves
Origami CD Sleeves
Introduction
The CDs we give out (burned, labeled with sharpie) look reasonable, but having a more professional package would provide more validity for a lot of people. Having a printed CD sleeve would also allow us to give the end user more information than simply "Ubuntu, 8.04, i386", and provide them with instructions, additional resources, and the like.
These sleeves should be easy to create, provide a large amount of external surface area for information, and be simple for other teams to edit and use as their own.
Design
We are looking for anyone and everyone to contribute their designs. If you don't feel comfortable creating artwork yourself, feel free to just post ideas in textual form. We are hoping to create three designs in total,
- Full color - (with background color; to be printed on fancy laser printers, etc)
- Half-color - (no background color, and limited color use elsewhere; this will allow us to print reasonably decent images on home printers without the pages getting soggy or running out of ink)
- Black/White - (no color at all, whether grayscale, or line-art; to be printed on even more printers)
These aren't set in stone. Feel free to argue the need and/or propose new ideas (or to argue against these). These three seem like a good gradient to start with.
These sleeves should be flavor and version agnostic, meaning that the same sleeve can be used for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, as well as a variety of versions (perhaps 8.04 through 9.10? maybe through 10.04? (which is the next LTS)), architectures and CD type may be good as well (i386/AMD64, Desktop/Alternate). These should be visible externally so we don't have to open up the case to see what's inside, perhaps in checkbox form, or some other easy-to-notate manner.
We hope to allow these sleeves to be used by other LoCos without too much modification. So please refrain from using tiny California states in the background (or something similar).
Printing and Folding Instructions
This design prints on a single sided page, and has a fair amount of surface area for information. If you have a better scheme for folding paper into a sleeve (preferrably one that requires no tape or glue), we're all ears.
Printing
Print it on your favorite printer, on standard letter size paper. It's fine if some is cut off on the edges (don't shrink the image to fit the printable area)
Folding
See the attached folding instructions for more details, [attachment:SleeveInstructions.svg Inkscape SVG] [attachment:SleeveInstructions.pdf PDF]
- Start with the printed side facing towards you and the top of the page (with the diagonals) facing up.
- all the folds for the entire sleeve are "away" from you
- the printed side of the page is always on the outside of the fold (you'll be able to see the dotted line)
- Fold the bottom two horizontal folds (there are three total, and two vertical ones, and two diagonal ones).
- Fold the two vertical folds.
- Fold the last horizontal fold and the two diagonal folds (these can be done in any order).
- Unfold the pointed flap slightly in order to slide the CD in to the pocket, slide it all the way down.
- Refold the top flap, fold it over again, and tuck it into the bottom part.
Resources
Blank Sleeve Dimensions
GIMP
[attachment:SleeveBlank.xcf Blank Sleeve for Gimp]
Inkscape
[attachment:SleeveBlank.svg Blank Sleeve for Inkscape]
Other
[attachment:SleeveBlank.pdf Blank Sleeve (PDF)]
If you're looking to create the frame in another program, here are the endpoints of the lines for two different coordinate systems, in centimeters (8.5x11 paper is 21.59x27.94cm)
Origin Top Left (like in GIMP)
x1 |
y1 |
x2 |
y2 |
|
16.975 |
0 |
16.975 |
27.94 |
|
4.625 |
0 |
4.625 |
27.94 |
|
0 |
25.95 |
21.59 |
25.95 |
|
0 |
20.97 |
21.59 |
20.97 |
|
0 |
8.62 |
21.59 |
8.62 |
|
4.625 |
6.17 |
10.795 |
0 |
|
10.795 |
0 |
16.975 |
6.17 |
|
Origin Bottom Left (like in Inkscape)
x1 |
y1 |
x2 |
y2 |
|
16.975 |
27.94 |
16.975 |
0 |
|
4.625 |
27.94 |
4.625 |
0 |
|
0 |
1.99 |
21.59 |
1.99 |
|
0 |
6.97 |
21.59 |
6.97 |
|
0 |
19.32 |
21.59 |
19.32 |
|
4.625 |
21.77 |
10.795 |
27.94 |
|
10.795 |
27.94 |
16.975 |
21.77 |
|
They are symmetrical, so if your system uses a right corner instead of a left, it won't matter.
Ubuntu Artwork
(If you find more, please add them to this list)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CaliforniaTeam/Projects/Logo
Ideas
Use this area to post and discuss your ideas please sign your edits! -- Best to use @SIG@, and it will expand automatically like this when you save (not preview): -- NealBussett DateTime(2008-06-06T22:43:24Z)