Over the past few releases, Fedora has gained a reputation amongst the various distributions for having some of the best artwork out there. This time around, responsibility has been handed over entirely to the community Art Team, and they've done themselves proud. Mairin Duffy, Fedora Art team lead, previews of some of the key elements belonging to the infinity theme.

If you could begin by telling us a bit about the process behind creating the artwork for Fedora 8? How were the community involved? How did people work together to come up with the final images?

Sure. There are really two main parts to Fedora 8's artwork that were handled in parallel.

One part of the artwork is our metacity and GTK themes (which control the titlebar and widgets respectively.) Martin Sourada, Daniel Geiger, and Luya Tshimbalanga created the Nodoka theme with help from Matthias Clasen. Folks on fedora-art-list as well as Fedora Forum contributed mockups and feedback as part of this effort; Daniel and Martin posted frequent updates to the theme so folks following the list could try out the in-progress theme and give their feedback. Overall I was quite impressed with this effort; I've been using Nodoka since it was still in early development and I think it fits Fedora's look quite well.

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