[Design-team] Organizing our swag designs a little better

[Robyn Bergeron]

On 03/20/2012 02:53 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I think it would be good if we could make it easier for ambassadors to
> order swag. Right now, our assets are kind of all over the place. I put
> together a first stab at trying to organize some designs we've used
> before:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Duffy/brandstuff
>
> Do you see any designs that are missing that we should have here? Do you
> have any ideas for new designs we could make that would be useful to
> ambassadors? Let's brainstorm and see what else might be useful?
>
> Some points:
>
> - These are for materials ambassadors order to be printed. Let's not
> worry about graphics or stuff you can print on a home printer, because I
> don't think those are as much as a problem for ambassadors.
>
> - Since they are for print, we'll need to make CMYK, embedded font /
> fonts-to-paths, print-ready PDFs available for the ambassadors to grab
> and send off to their vendors. (Common problems we've had with designs
> in the past is RGB instead of CMYK colors, and incorrect or old fonts)
>
> - Each design might have several different print files. For example, A-2
> has been printed on both Fedora pens and Fedora lanyards, and I think
> even tablecloths. Since different swag are different sizes, we'll need
> different print-ready artwork files - one per application - even if the
> design is basically the same.
>
> - Any designs that use MgModata (besides the FUDcon logotype) should use
> Comfortaa now, I updated the ones I could.
>
> I'm going to send the ambassadors a similar email to see if what is here
> so far works and to see if there is anything else they think they might
> need. Maybe a blog post too :)
+487, excellent excellent idea.

A few additional thoughts:

* Some info on why RGB is different vs. CMYK, and how to talk to your 
vendor about this to verify what they are using without feeling overwhelmed.

* Revisit the tri-fold flyers or any other flyers that ambassadors give 
out, see if we can work with marketing to make them more up-to-date, or 
at least have a simple, nice template for people to use, and make sure 
that we have them sized for printing in various parts of the world, 
since not everyone uses the same type of paper.

Will keep thinking on this... I'm sure I may have other ideas.

Thanks for tackling this, Mo! :)

-Robyn

> Thanks,
> ~m
>
>
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