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#1 Trotsky

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Posted 30 March 2016 - 05:21 AM

For all of these to open right you'll need the Celestia Redux font available here:

https://www.brohoof....celestia +redux

 

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Download Link for word document:

 

https://www.dropbox....sment.docx?dl=0

 

 

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Download link for word document:

 

https://www.dropbox....ment2.docx?dl=0

 

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Download Link for document:

 

https://www.dropbox....ment3.docx?dl=0


Edited by Trotsky, 30 March 2016 - 06:17 AM.


#2 JoyJoy

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Posted 30 March 2016 - 08:14 AM

A few tips. DON'T USE A RAINBOW COLOR. It's super hard to read. You should also save the fancy font for headers and such. Use a sans-serif font for the body stuff. Readability is key. If I'm having trouble reading a flyer, I won't read it.

 

Also, keep it short and sweet.



#3 Trotsky

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Posted 30 March 2016 - 04:25 PM

A few tips. DON'T USE A RAINBOW COLOR. It's super hard to read. You should also save the fancy font for headers and such. Use a sans-serif font for the body stuff. Readability is key. If I'm having trouble reading a flyer, I won't read it.

 

Also, keep it short and sweet.

 

The middle version is designed to not have the rainbow text or anything fancy, so if this is your preference I'd print out that one. I made the different versions to suit various people's tastes in decorations.

 

So far as keeping it short and sweet, your going to have to be more specific. I included all of the information I thought relevant, it's a matter of personal opinion and your target audience on how much or how little information to include. If you'd like to come up with an alternate text of it I can certainly release more versions.

 

The goal is not to have one end all flyer, but to have a variety of them to match different situations. For mine I had in mind college students at an engineering school, who have an inherent tendency (at least in my opinion) to want a lot of information about something before considering it. Other events will certainly have different audiences with different expectations, so having a variety of them with different texts would be beneficial.



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Posted 30 March 2016 - 05:13 PM

what are you doing with your life



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Posted 30 March 2016 - 06:21 PM

what are you doing with your life

 

If you don't like what he's doing that's fine, but how about posting something constructive instead of being a dick?

This isn't the shenanigans forum.



#6 Trotsky

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Posted 30 March 2016 - 06:34 PM

what are you doing with your life

 

 

It's a legitimate question, to answer I'd say I'm studying Mechanical Engineering which I enjoy for the opportunity to design my own pieces and not be bound by what other people have made, to push the borders of my imagination and make possible that which comes from it. As for Brohoof, it's my pass time and source of amusement, and I care for your community and feel I'm a part of it, and I'd like to see you thrive. Thus I will take the time to attempt to help you in anyway I can. This just happened to be one of the ways I attempted to do so in.



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Posted 31 March 2016 - 02:11 AM

Nice job, but as Joy said, try not to use rainbow colors, or at least use colors that aren't hard to read (yellow is the worst offender).



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Posted 31 March 2016 - 03:46 AM

As an amateur graphic designer, Don't use rainbow font for that, It's too hard to read at a glance, As Joy said, if I have trouble reading a poster I wont read all of it through, good job so far though!



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Posted 31 March 2016 - 09:20 AM

as an artist myself, i would not add a wall of texts because people are less likely to read it all.

best thing is to properly summarise, make it short and sweet, as said, and put a featuring image or logo that people WILL NOTICE from AFAR. Just a head's up.

I'd do something but i'm horrible at poster layouts/design (i can't draw that sort of... idk whatever it is, yet)

but good work at it tho


Edited by Rori, 31 March 2016 - 09:20 AM.


#10 Trotsky

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Posted 31 March 2016 - 10:01 AM

All three of these comments I've already answered above. I don't feel like repeating the answer over. So just scroll back up to it.

 

 

as an artist myself, i would not add a wall of texts because people are less likely to read it all.

best thing is to properly summarise, make it short and sweet, as said, and put a featuring image or logo that people WILL NOTICE from AFAR. Just a head's up.

I'd do something but i'm horrible at poster layouts/design (i can't draw that sort of... idk whatever it is, yet)

but good work at it tho

 

As an amateur graphic designer, Don't use rainbow font for that, It's too hard to read at a glance, As Joy said, if I have trouble reading a poster I wont read all of it through, good job so far though!

 

Nice job, but as Joy said, try not to use rainbow colors, or at least use colors that aren't hard to read (yellow is the worst offender).



#11 Clover

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Posted 02 April 2016 - 08:57 PM

don't dismiss people's opinions like that, take it to heart. there's no secret to summarizing that huge wad of text, you just have to do it yourself. even if the poster is fit for a more thorough community, the wall of text isn't necessary imo. there are many ways to make the poster look more aesthetically pleasing, such as organizing it and adding eye-catching designs. i'd say you should take a look at google at some informational posters for some reference or inspiration to make your poster look better overall.



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Posted 02 April 2016 - 11:44 PM

No text in it yet but since I've had so much fun formatting my science and IT coursework, I thought I might have fun trying my hand at something like this... Put on some music, opened publisher, here's the result:

 

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http://www.needsmorejpeg.com/ 

 

More pictures, more interesting formatting. Less text but that can be fixed.. not by me though, I think we should decide as a team what amount of info we put in.

 

Download: https://www.dropbox....poster.pub?dl=0

 

Feel free to edit the document as you wish.

 

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https://pixabay.com/...ck-cube-154749/

http://minecraftpc.w....com/wiki/Sword> http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/minecraft-computer/images/8/89/Sword.png/revision/latest?cb=20140530195921



#13 Rori

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 12:27 AM

IMO we're all gonna come up with different looking advertisement posters.

But really, it wouldn't hurt to use multiple together! That's of course if everyone is ok with it. Use Trotsy's along with whoever else would like to make their own too. that way we sort of get an equal share of info to visual/less info

Could even pair the ones with more info with an image to attract attention to it, beside it yeah

i don't want to sound rude to you, Trotsky, but we're only wanting to help and we really appreciate how much effort you're willing to put into this server. I used to have aspirations to do the same as you, but back then my contributions weren't important/needed so i gave up. don't give up like i did, at least. Also, people hate change and hated my ideas so we all gotta be prepared for it. good luck



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Posted 03 April 2016 - 03:18 AM

I'm very happy for the additional work on this. I like the new style background Squu developed and it looks much better than what I could have come up with. It was my goal all along to have many different kinds of posters, not just mine. I'm very glad for your work on this, please continue and best of luck to you all.

 

"i don't want to sound rude to you, Trotsky, but we're only wanting to help and we really appreciate how much effort you're willing to put into this server. I used to have aspirations to do the same as you, but back then my contributions weren't important/needed so i gave up. don't give up like i did, at least. Also, people hate change and hated my ideas so we all gotta be prepared for it. good luck"

 

I'm sure your contributions and aspirations are just as important as mine. You just need to work with the community to perfect your ideas, or ask for help from the rest of us, that's how we work as a herd to make the best possible outcome.



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Posted 03 April 2016 - 07:43 PM

"Also, people hate change and hated my ideas"

 

Assuming hating ideas refers to the original posts in here, I was only suggesting making it a little easier on the eyes to read.


Edited by zombieassasin417, 03 April 2016 - 07:44 PM.


#16 Squint

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Posted 03 April 2016 - 08:06 PM

That aside, could we brainstorm on what sort of content to have in the posters? What headings, how many words etc



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Posted 04 April 2016 - 01:40 PM

I'm pretty handy with a PC and formatting and at the moment I'm doing an ICT course So I could give it a crack if you want?
Oh and for titles
Maybe add something like names of helpful people on the server?
Or what it takes to become a member or somthin?

Also maybe I could do like helpful flyers or panflits to be handed out in public or at bronycon
I can't do it my self because stuff like that is mostly American but I am able to help

Cheers your friendly neighbourhood gamer (not in yours though)
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Edited by Buttons, 04 April 2016 - 01:41 PM.


#18 Trotsky

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Posted 16 April 2016 - 11:20 PM

I hope people are still working on some new designs for these. I printed out my three and found the only one that could actually be read was the plain blue one. Took some to a gamer's event and they were kind of handy, I plain on making a smaller business card one too to give as a handout, thus saving paper on the larger sheets.



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Posted 19 April 2016 - 03:23 AM

Completed the Business Cards, they are very simple and straight forward:

 

Prints 10 on an 8.5 x 11 inch paper:

 

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Download link:

https://www.dropbox.... card.docx?dl=0


Edited by Trotsky, 19 April 2016 - 04:35 AM.


#20 JoyJoy

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Posted 19 April 2016 - 04:16 AM

Honestly, I really hate that font. It's hard to read and is a knockoff of a proprietary font.



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Posted 19 April 2016 - 04:35 AM

Honestly, I really hate that font. It's hard to read and is a knockoff of a proprietary font.

 

Changed Fonts to something more basic and easier to read. Also shrunk to get more on the page.



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Posted 26 April 2016 - 02:14 AM

Started work on a key chain design, still in the designing phase, I'll show some pictures once I get a prototype.



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Posted 27 April 2016 - 04:41 AM

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A picture of the key chain design, the colors made it come out with some odd and unexpected depths, I may work on further upgrades to it.


Edited by Trotsky, 27 April 2016 - 04:42 AM.
typo repair


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Posted 27 April 2016 - 08:13 PM

Excellent work on that key chain! I love the design, and even the color is cool! You should totally upgrade it, maybe make the shapes more distinct rather than all together. I would also exclude the dots, they make it a little messy looking.



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Posted 05 May 2016 - 04:21 AM

Upgrading this thing is proving difficult and time consuming, However I have made use of it in other potential items, I'll at sometime or another develop a small pack of printable advertisement items, such as possibly an upgraded version of this prototype Iphone 5 case:

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Posted 06 May 2016 - 12:38 AM

Upgrading this thing is proving difficult and time consuming, However I have made use of it in other potential items, I'll at sometime or another develop a small pack of printable advertisement items, such as possibly an upgraded version of this prototype Iphone 5 case:

qXbrTCv.jpg

Not really much into the server anymore, but I must say the designs you are making look great and I can tell they have a lot of effort in them so I just wanted to commend you on that and say keep up the good work and good luck :D



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Posted 06 May 2016 - 02:56 AM

"lot of effort" here translates to using some program to make a 3D model out of the Brohoof artwork, then slapping it onto an existing Iphone case blank made specifically for this purpose. Yeah, once I actually get the Brohoof logo 3D model to look good I might say was some effort there, but so far I'm just tinkering with the easy stuff. Once I get down to actually making a decent logo 3D model things will be a lot better.



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Posted 06 May 2016 - 10:56 PM

"lot of effort" here translates to using some program to make a 3D model out of the Brohoof artwork, then slapping it onto an existing Iphone case blank made specifically for this purpose. Yeah, once I actually get the Brohoof logo 3D model to look good I might say was some effort there, but so far I'm just tinkering with the easy stuff. Once I get down to actually making a decent logo 3D model things will be a lot better.

Eh, well either way I don't think I would have ever been able to do that lets just put it that way lol.




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