[Street] [Materials] Creating materials to distribute
Rachel
spookeriffic at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 12:23:19 EST 2011
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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