[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute

Linda Jenkins lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 11 14:03:56 EST 2011


Wow what a great start! Obviously we need the details, once decided. But this is inspiring!
Linda

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On Nov 11, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Rachel <spookeriffic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, I made this up, we can add more info i you'd like, or feel
> free to use elements for other fliers.
> 
> http://stringeth.me/graphics/dist_march_basic.png
> 
> RB
> 
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Linda Jenkins
> <lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Rachel & all. Great to see it shaping up!
>> Linda
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Rachel <spookeriffic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi There!  I'm an amateur designy person and I would love to help out,
>>> please send along some content so I can make it pretty!  What size
>>> fliers are we all thinking - I think probably half-sheets that can be
>>> printed in B&W on 8.5"x11 might work nicely especially for the "ad"
>>> type fliers- or do you want to pack more info on them?  Personally I
>>> am more likely to give fridge real-estate to smaller fliers - larger
>>> ones often end up folded into wads in my pocket & tossed accidently.
>>> 
>>> I feel like the best fliers I receive have *short *sweet *directly
>>> informative messages, with clean graphics and URLS or the like so I
>>> can explore them later.  If we have access to two-sided printing we
>>> could combine advertisement & informative fliers maybe, one side to
>>> draw them in and another side that they can peruse on their next T
>>> ride.  Just some ideas.
>>> 
>>> TFC!!
>>> 
>>> R "The fire" B
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Ravi Mishra <ravi at occupyboston.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> This thread is about what flyers/handouts we can give members of the public
>>>> we engage with when we are doing this march (or generally doing any sort of
>>>> flyering or canvasing). This involves a few elements: writing the content,
>>>> designing the flyers/handouts, and actually printing them and having them
>>>> available.
>>>> We discussed two types of flyers: issues (information about the various
>>>> injustices going on) and advertising (recruiting members to learn more about
>>>> and/or join the occupations). We brainstormed a list of issues: environment,
>>>> finance, healthcare, military, deindustriaization, corporate crime, animal
>>>> rights, women's rights, prison reform, homelessness, campaign finance,
>>>> education, immigration, offshoring. This list is not all-inclusive - if you
>>>> want to write about something else, go for it. If you'd like to contribute
>>>> in this category, write up a short, formatted piece (something that can fit
>>>> on a flyer or a piece of paper) of something that we'd want to hand out, and
>>>> send it out to the list.
>>>> Design is another major category - we need to find designers who can make
>>>> this stuff visually appealing. This is a lower priority than content, but if
>>>> you are a designer or know one, please speak up! Likewise for printing - if
>>>> you know where we can print, please chime in.
>>>> So far, people committed to this are Nicole, Bobby, Colin, Mike, Ron, and
>>>> myself, but anyone can join in by just responding to this thread.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Ravi
>>>> 
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