GNU Guix 1.2.0 Apparel
Since the illustration and the song that accompanied the release announcement of GNU Guix 1.2.0 are free cultural works, I felt like using them to print some apparel (see Photos).
For blind people, Flight of the Guix shows a white plane, numbered 1.2, ascending to the blue sky through golden clouds, which fly alongside it with a smile on their faces. The idea behind the image is simple: Bon voyage to this version of the software and to its users. As for the style, my intention was to make it look like a sketchy mural, so I used lots of strokes that hide the clean, almost plastic, appearance that characterizes vector graphics.
As for Ode to One Two Oh, which I think it cleverly summarizes a development cycle in the GNU Guix project, there is a detailed story that includes information about the tools that Ricardo Wurmus, its author, used to create it, and also an explanation of the typo poem contributed by Vagrant Cascadian to the lyrics (see Music Production on Guix System).
I published a little package yesterday which contains the source files I used to print the clothes, just in case other people want to modify the images and print their own things.
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