Are you Feeling Creative?

[Melanie]

I am looking for a poster design for the MAP Meet and I need results fast!

If you feel you can design the poster/flyer to show us in a professional light and put our message across, then by all means please submit your entry.

If you win, you’ll get:

Free entry to the Meet (if you can attend!)

MAP Meet T shirt (P& P paid for)

Supporting Membership

MAP Meet Team Status

Public recognition of your work.



Things to include on your poster

Our logo

Charity logo

Date

Venue

Event Title

Styles and/or Instructors

Ticket Price – Participants £15

Spectators £3.00

Disclaimer


You have until Friday next week!


4th May 2007!!!


Have your entry emailed to mapmeet@hotmail.co.uk

[slipthejab]

A few questions for you Melanie:

1) where can I get the dimensions of the poster?

2) am I to use the MAP logo from the site?

3) where do I get the charity logos

4) will this actually be printed 4/C process or strictly for web use?

5) if so what is an acceptable format? (JPG at what resolution?)

6) The poster should have a strong visual connection to the meet T-shirt?

thanks... I'd be keen to submit an entry.
Sadly I probably can't make the MAP meet itself.

[Melanie]

1) where can I get the dimensions of the poster? A4

2) am I to use the MAP logo from the site? Saz will give it to you

3) where do I get the charity logos - Leave a space for that - with an X

4) will this actually be printed 4/C process or strictly for web use? Que?? I would like it possible to print out and put on peoples walls! and look good in email and on the web too.

5) if so what is an acceptable format? (JPG at what resolution?)


6) The poster should have a strong visual connection to the meet T-shirt? The T shirt has already been agreed and sent off to the printers. Thats what makes this special - it will be your design for the poster. Who ever wins this will have to defend the title next year


thanks... I'd be keen to submit an entry.

Look forward to seeing it

[Moosey]

Hi! I'll have a crack at it too. Need the logo/t-shirt design too!

All the best,

M

Edit: I can produce a jpeg for ya, but I don't know enough about the industrial printing process to produce colour plates, so if you need that I'll have to leave it to slippy.

[Melanie]

Originally Posted by moosey

Hi! I'll have a crack at it too. Need the logo/t-shirt design too!

All the best,

M

T shirt design has been agreed - so it doesn't need to go with the Poster.

This is gonna be good - the Moose against Slippy!

[Moosey]

Originally Posted by Melanie

T shirt design has been agreed - so it doesn't need to go with the Poster.

Sorry, what I meant was that if you want us to make the poster look similar to the T-shirt, we need to know what the T-shirt looks like. Edit: Ah, ok, I was getting the wrong end of the stick - it was Slip not you who mentioned the T-shirt! OK, just me being dense!

This is gonna be good - the Moose against Slippy!

Hmmmm... professional graphic artist Slippy versus unemployed rent-a-psychologist bum Moose... I wonder...

[slipthejab]

Originally Posted by moosey

Hmmmm... professional graphic artist Slippy versus unemployed rent-a-psychologist bum Moose... I wonder...

Moosey by a mile... everyone one knows graphic artists are professional loungers.

[funnytiger]

Blast! I would love to enter, but I am swamped with new job, kung fu tournament, freelance work and baking cookies. Lots of cookies.

Slip, how long have you been a graphic artist? I assume you are using that term instead of graphic designer because you do more hand drawn work than digital?

- ft

[Moosey]

Is Saz going to e-mail us with the logo?

[Melanie]

Yeah - just PM me your email addresses

[slipthejab]

Originally Posted by funnytiger

Slip, how long have you been a graphic artist? I assume you are using that term instead of graphic designer because you do more hand drawn work than digital?

- ft

lol.... I've been a creative director off and on for roughly 15 years. I rarely take on jobs anymore... at least not in the sense that I'm going to sit down and do layouts or produce mechanicals and go to press-checks.

I still am up on the current versions of Illustrator/Painter/PhotoShop etc. so it's nice to have the liberty to pick and choose what jobs I want.

Sadly... I find far too many 'designers' these days don't know even how to hold a pencil let alone anything about the proper terminology for typography.

It's led to the dumbing down of the design industry - now any monkey with a software package calls themselves a graphic designer.

I can remember (christ I'm showing my age) when there were no computers and typesetting was done a big ass machine that spit out film to a processor and mechanical boards were ruled by hand with blue pencils. Waxers were used for paste-up and Bestine was used for clean up. Horizontal 'stat' cameras were used to make film and INT transfers... lol.

Christ I even have an actual airbrush that uses paint somewhere still.

But I digress... back to the thread.

[whitematt]

Rapidograph tech pens... markers for mocking up colored layouts... airbrush and colored pencil for photo retouching.... xacto knives and amberlith/rubylith for prepress layouts...

The first time I worked with a Scitex prepress workflow, I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

Yep, software and a computer, "I'm a designer!" Just don't apply for a job with me. I use some qualifying questions in interviews to separate the wheat from the chaff.

1. What are some differences between a bitmap or vector file?

2. If I ask you to produce a CMYK layout with a full bleed, what does that mean?

Matt White

[Melanie]

Does that mean you're gonna be doing one as well whitematt? PM me your email address and I will have the logo sent to you too

[koyo]

JEEEEEZ!!
I thought I had made a leap from pencil to rapidograph!!!


regards koyo
Can't wait to see the designs.

[funnytiger]

Originally Posted by slipthejab

lol.... I've been a creative director off and on for roughly 15 years. I rarely take on jobs anymore... at least not in the sense that I'm going to sit down and do layouts or produce mechanicals and go to press-checks.

I still am up on the current versions of Illustrator/Painter/PhotoShop etc. so it's nice to have the liberty to pick and choose what jobs I want.

Sadly... I find far too many 'designers' these days don't know even how to hold a pencil let alone anything about the proper terminology for typography.

It's led to the dumbing down of the design industry - now any monkey with a software package calls themselves a graphic designer.

I can remember (christ I'm showing my age) when there were no computers and typesetting was done a big ass machine that spit out film to a processor and mechanical boards were ruled by hand with blue pencils. Waxers were used for paste-up and Bestine was used for clean up. Horizontal 'stat' cameras were used to make film and INT transfers... lol.

Christ I even have an actual airbrush that uses paint somewhere still.

But I digress... back to the thread.

Haha! Its great to hear to old timers reminisce about the "good ol' days" before computers and software suites! LOL

I've been a designer by profession for about 5 or 6 years now, but I have been doing some sort of art/design/craft since I was a wee lass.

I agree with what you said about "any monkey with a software package calls themselves a graphic designer." I find that more true than not. Its really sad. I just got hired on at a non-profit in DC as their website and publications manager. The guy I replaced didn't know design from a sh*t stain in his underwear. I've got a LOT of rebranding (or rather just branding period) to do and a couple of websites to overhaul.

Ah... the smell of Photoshop in the morning...

- ft