need logo to produce Fedora Ballons for events

[Ben Williams]

We are wanting to produce some ballons for events in which ambassadors 
are attending.

http://www.fastballoons.com/main.php?type=cat&catid=4
we are thinking 12" ballon Perl White with blue ink

since this media (and vender) only seem to support mono printing this 
could be a problem with the trademark guidelines.

What can we do to make these happen to help support Fedora at shows?

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[Nicu Buculei]

On 08/04/2010 05:58 PM, Ben Williams wrote:
>  We are wanting to produce some ballons for events in which
> ambassadors
>  are attending.
>
>  http://www.fastballoons.com/main.php?type=cat&catid=4
>  we are thinking 12" ballon Perl White with blue ink
>
>  since this media (and vender) only seem to support mono printing this
>  could be a problem with the trademark guidelines.
>
>  What can we do to make these happen to help support Fedora at shows? 
Based on the IRC discussion, Ben needs a *monochrome* version of the 
logo for cheap printing, which is against the logo usage guidelines. 
Using only the wordmark would be, IMO, not pretty enough, the price for 
color printing is prohibitive.

I think we may try to use some type of dithering to emulate more than 
one color, but not sure a) if we want to allow such usage b) the printer 
will be capable.


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[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 18:47 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
>  On 08/04/2010 05:58 PM, Ben Williams wrote:
>  > We are wanting to produce some ballons for events in which ambassadors
>  > are attending.
>  >
>  > http://www.fastballoons.com/main.php?type=cat&catid=4
>  > we are thinking 12" ballon Perl White with blue ink
>  >
>  > since this media (and vender) only seem to support mono printing this
>  > could be a problem with the trademark guidelines.
>  >
>  > What can we do to make these happen to help support Fedora at shows?
>  
>  Based on the IRC discussion, Ben needs a *monochrome* version of the 
>  logo for cheap printing, which is against the logo usage guidelines. 
>  Using only the wordmark would be, IMO, not pretty enough, the price for 
>  color printing is prohibitive.
>  
>  I think we may try to use some type of dithering to emulate more than 
>  one color, but not sure a) if we want to allow such usage b) the printer 
>  will be capable. 
So more than one color is okay just a bit more expensive (I believe Ben
mentioned $0.25 vs $0.60 per balloon.)

I created a PickPic page for the project:
http://django.parcodiyellowstone.it/pickpic/viewimg/?project_id=113

One idea is to do half the balloons one color / just the Fedora logo,
the other half have the full logo. eg

http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Fedora_Artwork/white-baloon.jpg

http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%
20Collateral/Balloons/blue-balloon.png

~m

[inode0]

2010/8/4 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  So more than one color is okay just a bit more expensive (I believe
> Ben
>  mentioned $0.25 vs $0.60 per balloon.) 
I personally think either is fine in terms of cost and in my head
thought the logo would be far nicer.

>  I created a PickPic page for the project:
>  http://django.parcodiyellowstone.it/pickpic/viewimg/?project_id=113
>
>  One idea is to do half the balloons one color / just the Fedora logo,
>  the other half have the full logo. eg
>
>  http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Fedora_Artwork/white-baloon.jpg
>
>  http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%
>  20Collateral/Balloons/blue-balloon.png 
Having looked at these I find myself actually more attracted to the
non-logo version though and think the logo will likely show distortion
more.

John

[Máirín Duffy]

On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 12:21 -0500, inode0 wrote:
>  2010/8/4 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  > http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Fedora_Artwork/white-baloon.jpg 
>  Having looked at these I find myself actually more attracted to the
>  non-logo version though and think the logo will likely show distortion
>  more. 
Cool, I produced a print-ready PDF according to the vendor's specs using
Tatica's mockup:

http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%
20Collateral/Balloons/balloon.pdf

~m

[inode0]

2010/8/4 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
>  On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 12:21 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > 2010/8/4 Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;:
> > > http://tatica.fedorapeople.org/Fedora_Artwork/white-baloon.jpg
>
> > Having looked at these I find myself actually more attracted to the
> > non-logo version though and think the logo will likely show distortion
> > more.
>
>  Cool, I produced a print-ready PDF according to the vendor's specs using
>  Tatica's mockup:
>
>  http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%
>  20Collateral/Balloons/balloon.pdf 
Mo, tatica, nicu - thank you all very much for helping out so fast.
Art is often one of our bottlenecks and you really rock.

John