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"Need a poster/leaflet/logo" thread?

If anyone has any more projects then I'd love to help out. Even though I hated my job as a web designer, I still want to do bits of designing here and there if I can (be arsed).
 
I'm going to jump on this thread with a related tangent.

There are at leat two of us on here who own screenprinters.

there is Sabcat - most know their t-shirt range - they also print shirts for groups

Myself - I own Nosotros Print and Birmingham DIY Print Club and can screenprint most things. Again, always try to do cheapest rates for political things we agree with. Also launching a whole load of benefit art prints shortly.

Oh, both of us are fully unionised, only use 'ethical' and environmentally friendly materials etc

Will post links when not on my phone!
 
Does anyone do cheap paper printing or badges and stickers? They'd be useful contacts to have!
 
BigTom said:
Great idea for a thread and I'll happily contribute some work to this..

If anyone has a good idea for a square shaped twitter/facebook avatar type logo for Boycott Workfare that'd be great, we failed to come up with anything nice.
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Bumping this request.
 
stuff_it said:
Or if you really want to save money long term get a b&w laser printer and use that?
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LOL I know what you mean, but you sound like a salesman from Rymans. :D

I can't be arsed running off 200 x 12 sheets double sided myself, because I am very lazy. :oops:

Might just get it photocopied and then collate and staple though. Assuming I get it written!
 
Fozzie Bear said:
Also - re: printers - while I'm here can anyone recommend someone to print a (mainly weird music) fanzine? Probably 200 copies, b&w A5. 24 pages?
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The Russell Press ( www.russellpress.com ) have a good digital short-run printing setup now and good prices.
Long established. Very sound people. Straight talking - genuinely good environmental and worker rights. Run by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation bods for non-commercial/voluntary sector customers.
 
dennisr said:
The Russell Press ( www.russellpress.com ) have a good digital short-run printing setup now and good prices.
Long established. Very sound people. Straight talking - genuinely good environmental and worker rights. Run by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation bods for non-commercial/voluntary sector customers.
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That is the sort of thing - many thanks!
 
Talking of badges, I'm thinking of scraping together the money for some sort of "disability activist" badge, and then posting them out to any Urb that wants one, just in the hope of getting people talking on the subject, but want to incorporate the (upside-down) black triangle and some kind of easily-recognisable disability logo that's a) punchy, b) not too derivative and c) good-looking as a 1-inch badge.
Any takers? :D
 
Black triangle on the blue blackground used for the standard wheelchair disability symbol might be enough? Or put the wheelchair symbol in white inside the black triangle maybe?
I think the black triangle is well recognised by disability activists though, so I guess it depends on what you are trying to do, whether it's just about letting other activists know you are also an activist, or whether it's about starting conversations with people who aren't.
 
BigTom said:
Black triangle on the blue blackground used for the standard wheelchair disability symbol might be enough? Or put the wheelchair symbol in white inside the black triangle maybe?
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The second one sounds good.

I think the black triangle is well recognised by disability activists though, so I guess it depends on what you are trying to do, whether it's just about letting other activists know you are also an activist, or whether it's about starting conversations with people who aren't.
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The latter, most definitely. I'm an old softy who reckons that if just one person asks "what does that mean?" and goes away thinking "ffs, I didn't realise the govt were doing that in my name!", then it's worth my money shelling out on 100 badges or whatever.
 
ViolentPanda said:
The second one sounds good.



The latter, most definitely. I'm an old softy who reckons that if just one person asks "what does that mean?" and goes away thinking "ffs, I didn't realise the govt were doing that in my name!", then it's worth my money shelling out on 100 badges or whatever.
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I can do it tomorrow if no-one else gets there first.
 
ViolentPanda said:
That'd be great!
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Right.. not sure how this should be laid out for a badge, so I've given it a big bit of trim around the edge which you may need to crop out to get it looking right. (If you don't know how, it's easy to do with irfanview or maybe even paint, let me know and I'll tell you)

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hi res: https://www.box.com/s/cd77422dbc9e6d199563

So in the image above I've just got a blue circle so you can see how I'm imagining the badge will look like, the hi res upload is sqaure with a completely blue background. It looks a bit odd on that because it looks like the triangle is too far down, because the bottom of the triangle is at the bottom of the circle but the top is not at the top.

So if you want to use this online, I've done this version as well which looks right for a square:

RTNR7l.jpg


hi res: https://www.box.com/s/5239e4196d7c8176a5ec

Let me know if you want a different blue or any other adjustments.
 
BigTom said:
Black triangle on the blue blackground used for the standard wheelchair disability symbol might be enough? Or put the wheelchair symbol in white inside the black triangle maybe?
I think the black triangle is well recognised by disability activists though, so I guess it depends on what you are trying to do, whether it's just about letting other activists know you are also an activist, or whether it's about starting conversations with people who aren't.
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What about a plain 'disability blue' round badge with the 'disabled parking' wheelchair thingy in white, with a black triangle as the 'spokes' of the wheel?
 
ViolentPanda said:
Talking of badges, I'm thinking of scraping together the money for some sort of "disability activist" badge, and then posting them out to any Urb that wants one, just in the hope of getting people talking on the subject, but want to incorporate the (upside-down) black triangle and some kind of easily-recognisable disability logo that's a) punchy, b) not too derivative and c) good-looking as a 1-inch badge.
Any takers? :D
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are you involved with the Direct Action Network? A group of disabled activists, active about disability issues, who would be right up your street. Definitely anarchist leaning, though open to Socialists. Really well-organised.
 
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