[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute

Linda Jenkins lindajenkins177 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 11 02:01:19 EST 2011


Thanks Rachel & all. Great to see it shaping up!
Linda

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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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