SOOLID blog

When we started in 1999 our company name was “fourA” but we was used to sign our work as SOOLID. In 2004 we changed the legal name into SOOLID. We also had a logo, an ancestor of current SOOLIDcube®, but still OUR logo, the graphic signature of our works, something that evolved during these years reflecting our changes. It sucked we know, but it was (and will be) OUR logo.

Some years ago we met a guy, carlo, in charge of marketing in a braking disk company in Milan, who asked us to redesign the company’s website. (we didnt the work but it’s not important now). Some month ago this guy wrote me asking if the soolid lettering was built from a font or from scratch. He told me also that he started a small design studio in Brazil.

Thanks to a friend call i knew some minutes ago that , yes, Carlo has started a companay, but not a design studio, a sort of clothing/surf company named… yes, S00LID and what about the logo ? Off course, our first one, rotated and red/white painted !

Good luck Carlo, this is a good example on how export italian style and originality Maybe we’ll get in touch with you one of these days. Send us one of your original t-shirts..

This is our SOOLID original old logo:

And this the brazilian stolen one

Soolid, soolid logo, soolid old logo, soolid stole logo

Times Online Edition published a foto gallery of Google company headquarters in California. It’s titled: Life in the Googleplex. Very nice.

This is a small preview of Soolive, my first experiment on customizing gnome desktop. I’m sure, it’s not the right or better way to do that, it’s just a “public experiment”.

HOW TO INSTALL:

First of all, open your terminal and make sure your’re your homedir
cd ~
Download the archive
wget http://blog.soolid.it/data/2006/02/Soolive-theme.tar.gz

and unpack it
tar -zxvf Soolive-theme.tar.gz

enter soolive directory
cd soolive/

Make sure all files listed below exists
ls -la

. gnome-splash.png soolive-login.tar.gz .themes
.. README soolive-wallpaper.png

copy soolive custom theme directory in your theme dir
mv ~/soolive/.themes/Soolive/ ~/.themes/Soolive/

Launch Gnome Theme manger, select Soolive from the menu and close
gnome-theme-manager

Now we’ll change login windows: come back to terminal and type
gdmsetup

Select “Graphic Greeter” tab , then “install new theme” button and point to and select “soolive-login.tar.gz” from soolive directory. Check it from the list on the left and close.

Back again to terminal, get root privileges, rename default splash screen and copy the new one
su
mv /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/gnome-splash.old
mv /home/gallo/soolive/gnome-splash.png /usr/share/pixmaps/splash/

Now copy the wallpaper inside theme directory
mv ~/soolive/soolive-wallpaper.png ~/.themes/Soolive/

Right click on your desktop and and change the desktop wallpaper searcing inside .themes/ in your homedir (if you can’t see hidden files try with a right clip on file browser and select show hidden files)

Now logout and login again.