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Flyers and other artwork wanted for Barbelith mini-festival

Mon Oncle Ignatius

21:07 / 19.03.06

It seems there's some momentum building for setting up a Barbegig - or mini-festival even - in June 2006 (tbc). More details, discussion and suggestions are going on in the Gathering thread here. We're going to need volunteers to design flyers and suchlike, so if anyone feels like stepping forward with visual materials to encapsulate the idea representing a Barbelith festival, please step forward.

10:32 / 20.03.06

Here's my first attempt at a flyer, though I'll freely admit that anyone with graphic design experience would probably produce a much better one. Creative commons, feel free to improve at will.

20:32 / 21.10.06

(Saturn’s Nod, that picture isn’t showing up for me, have you taken it down?)

Well, I did this thing.

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It’s real and in existence on a proper printing plate and everything, and I’ve printed a couple of copies and they actually look quite nice when pinned to a wall. I’m still working out exactly *how* to add one or two colours to it, so that it will look sufficiently STRIKING and GRAPHIC. Which is fun.

But, also, it needs BLURB. Now, I know there are creative wordy types hereabouts in this forum; I’ve seen you, with your daily poetry and your 100 word short stories and your utterly barbequoteable turns of phrase and the like. I feel this poster NEEDS amusing captions to top and tail it. And so I‘ve left the space for maybe 30-50 words, or thereabouts, at the top, and again at the bottom. So: something about Burning Idiot Noise, maybe, the sort of band write-up that will ROCK the poster clean off the wall? And then something summing up the Barbegig itself, maybe.

I mean, "Real Live Tiger is..."...what? Sell this night, in 50 words or less. And then I’ll etch the words into the metal printing plate ITSELF, and run off like a millionzillion copies and then get arrested for flyposting.

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

21:17 / 21.10.06

mmm. printing plate.

Exquisite!

22:03 / 21.10.06

"YOU WILL BELIEVE IN HEROES."

Nelson Evergreen

07:03 / 23.10.06

Ooh, I'm seeing all kinds of Slumberlandish shades on that.

Great composition!

09:29 / 23.10.06

You’re so damn talented, Bed Head, I could weep.

13:30 / 24.10.06

Argh, sorry, I didn’t mean to be a cause for anyone weeping. I do the weeping, man! Frequently.

Er. Also, hey, "great composition" is almost exactly what my dad said when he saw it last week. Well, actually he said "good composition," and gave a little hrmph, but that totally means "great" for him. And I do like the idea that my dad might have eyes like Nelson Evergreen’s. And you both make me tongue-tied. Too.

But yes - Slumberland! or possibly Neverland! Meets Luthor Arkwright! Meets ye olde theatrical poster-type thing, maybe! Was certainly meant to be the idea here. To explain this whole thing a little further: I thought I’d do a *set* of posters, with a different one for each different band that might be appearing. There are a couple of other similar-ish posters in the works, I just thought I’d post this one first, and his Lordship and Tango-Mango both seemed to approve of it so far.

But, dudes, a poster is so much more than just a picture! and a copywriter I aint. Grant sees it. Grant sees everything.