Postcard Image and Text - feedback by Friday at noon.

[Carmen Ellison]

Hello all,

Thanks to everyone for their work and suggestions on all of this – it looks like the May 10 event is coming together beautifully!

Please find attached a mockup for the postcard. We decided that getting text to fit onto a business card was, well, impossible. Perhaps something to think about for the future could be a wallet size card with a list of contacts for resources – when we launch this campaign in earnest.

In terms of this quickly produced first step, Lucas and I thought it would be best to pull quotations from relevant documents and then give info on how to find out more. Drafting a new set of "know your rights" involves rather more legal-type work than we can do so quickly, and we are very wary of giving people incorrect information. We hope you will all agree that this approach is effective. Lucas and I view it as just one tiny start in a much larger project.

The same goes for the attached image – it will be something like this one – this is just a mockup. We want it to be the inauguration of a much larger series of art pieces, postcards, projects, art shows, performance nights, etc. And with the many visual artists, curators, writers, and musicians in our group, all that is to come will exponentially exceed our humble offering.

In terms of the actual image we're sending to you, we thought in terms of something that looked interesting but was "non-representative" – insofar as it was not a picture of a cop, or a representation of violence, etc. Any of this type of imaging seemed like it could be too confusing for people to understand, and would require a larger group discussion of CRP members at a later time. We hope that the "Q:" signalled something 'queer', but also the idea of 'question and answer'.

I know it's late already, but if it is at all possible, please provide any feedback you have on the text and/or image by noon tomorrow – so we can get the whole thing off to the printer on time.

Farewell for now,

Carmen

[Carmen Ellison]

p.s. Please send your feedback to carmen...@gmail.com

Thanks!  

ce

[Sahn]

Love it!!!!

<CRP, KYR, Card 1, Draft 1, 6 May 2010.pdf>

[Alice Oscar]

I'm good with making text fit in tight spaces. Let me know if you'd like any graphic design help. I don't want to step on any toes, just offering up my skills.

Alice

[lcra...@ualberta.ca]

Hi Alice!

That is a great offer, thank you on behalf of the group! I can
guarantee that there will tons of formating and designing to do in the
weeks and months come and that your skills will be good to verrrry
good use.

This doc is now at the printer. It was a real frantic 'let's get
something out for Monday!' job, though we tried hard to get it looking
good. Fortunately we had someone at the printer's help us out with
formatting.

Thanks again.

Lucas