Hi folks,
I think it would be good if we could make it easier for ambassadors to order swag. Right now, our assets are kind of all over the place. I put together a first stab at trying to organize some designs we've used before:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff
Do you see any designs that are missing that we should have here? Do you have any ideas for new designs we could make that would be useful to ambassadors? Let's brainstorm and see what else might be useful?
Some points:
- These are for materials ambassadors order to be printed. Let's not worry about graphics or stuff you can print on a home printer, because I don't think those are as much as a problem for ambassadors.
- Since they are for print, we'll need to make CMYK, embedded font / fonts-to-paths, print-ready PDFs available for the ambassadors to grab and send off to their vendors. (Common problems we've had with designs in the past is RGB instead of CMYK colors, and incorrect or old fonts)
- Each design might have several different print files. For example, A-2 has been printed on both Fedora pens and Fedora lanyards, and I think even tablecloths. Since different swag are different sizes, we'll need different print-ready artwork files - one per application - even if the design is basically the same.
- Any designs that use MgModata (besides the FUDcon logotype) should use Comfortaa now, I updated the ones I could.
I'm going to send the ambassadors a similar email to see if what is here so far works and to see if there is anything else they think they might need. Maybe a blog post too :)
Thanks, ~m
On 03/20/2012 02:53 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi folks,
I think it would be good if we could make it easier for ambassadors to order swag. Right now, our assets are kind of all over the place. I put together a first stab at trying to organize some designs we've used before:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff
Do you see any designs that are missing that we should have here? Do you have any ideas for new designs we could make that would be useful to ambassadors? Let's brainstorm and see what else might be useful?
Some points:
- These are for materials ambassadors order to be printed. Let's not
worry about graphics or stuff you can print on a home printer, because I don't think those are as much as a problem for ambassadors.
- Since they are for print, we'll need to make CMYK, embedded font /
fonts-to-paths, print-ready PDFs available for the ambassadors to grab and send off to their vendors. (Common problems we've had with designs in the past is RGB instead of CMYK colors, and incorrect or old fonts)
- Each design might have several different print files. For example, A-2
has been printed on both Fedora pens and Fedora lanyards, and I think even tablecloths. Since different swag are different sizes, we'll need different print-ready artwork files - one per application - even if the design is basically the same.
- Any designs that use MgModata (besides the FUDcon logotype) should use
Comfortaa now, I updated the ones I could.
I'm going to send the ambassadors a similar email to see if what is here so far works and to see if there is anything else they think they might need. Maybe a blog post too :)
+487, excellent excellent idea.
A few additional thoughts:
* Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.
* Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world, since not everyone uses the same type of paper.
Will keep thinking on this... I'm sure I may have other ideas.
Thanks for tackling this, Mo! :)
-Robyn
Thanks, ~m
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On Tue 20 Mar 2012 06:08:07 PM PDT, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
- Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.
In summary, RGB (Red Green Blue combinated) is an addictive colour model of the light on which a combination of RGB makes white displayed on screen from TV to your average cellphone while CMYK (Cyan Magenta Yellow Key - in black -) is a subtractive colour model on which the combination is black found on materials like ink and paint. Hope that helps.
-- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@fedoraproject.org W: http://www.coolest-storm.net
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:08 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
- Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/About_CMYK there's my first stab; ideas for improvement?
- Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give
out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world, since not everyone uses the same type of paper.
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
~m
On 03/23/2012 01:28 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:08 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
- Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/About_CMYK there's my first stab; ideas for improvement?
- Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give
out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world, since not everyone uses the same type of paper.
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fly...
~m
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On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:34 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fly...
Okay, I did a bit of revamp. Critique, folks?
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/brochure/
~m
2012/3/24 Máirín Duffy duffy@fedoraproject.org:
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:34 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fly...
Okay, I did a bit of revamp. Critique, folks?
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/temp/brochure/
~m
Hi,
Could we change the community forums link (fedoraforum.org) to ask.fedoraproject.org? Ok, that's quite a big change, but ask.fpo is fully FOSS (I think) while fedoraforum.org is not.
We changed that in our http://fedoraproject.org/get-help page, (ask.fpo is really simpler and more user friendly).
If not the Facebook logo on the screenshot, I like this brochure :) Could we have a set of apps targeting specific audiance? For exemple if we do an event in a design school, that should not be the same as if on an electronic school. That's only an idea, I know that there are other marketing material for specific target.
On 03/23/2012 11:30 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:34 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing_Fedora_flyer#Fedora_Marketing_-_Fly...
Okay, I did a bit of revamp. Critique, folks?
My only comments are - maybe we could pare down the LibreOffice apps into one bullet point (or "icon point," hah!) - and call it a productivity suite, with snippets from each bit of the three functionalities listed? I think we'd have room for at least one other app in that place - be it a mail client, empathy, or... ? The Boxes app might be cool, or even highlighting Accessibility.
Also: I wonder how this will look when printed on a b/w printer - mostly the desktop screenshot. (This would require me to have paper in my printer and I don't have any there atm because it apparently has all been used by my children....)
Last: Does Ray care about his name being in the upper corner of the screenshot? :)
-Robyn
~m
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On 03/23/2012 01:28 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 18:08 -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
- Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your
vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/About_CMYK there's my first stab; ideas for improvement?
- Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give
out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world, since not everyone uses the same type of paper.
I can't seem to find sources for the tri-fold flyers I've seen at events before. Anybody here on list have them?
This could also possibly apply to the flyers you and/or Emily designed for SXSW.
~m
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