The Poster - stage 2

[LibraryLady]

Oooo, I like this a lot, Stephan! I agree with Betsie that the pages would look better with writing on them, ideally just author's names like in the background of Gord's design if possible.

A few design/spacing suggestions:

- It bothers me how "free classic audio books" covers part of the graphic. I think this would be better at the very top of the poster as a sort of header/introduction.

- I agree with Kara about eliminating the last sentence of the blurb and I agree with Betsie about not hyphenating. And maybe this could go up beside the book where it currently says "free classic audio books," since it is smaller and wouldn't overlap with the graphic?

- If you move the blurb up, then I think you could make the "www.librivox.org, where books speak up" bigger at the bottom.

I love Gord's design also, so much great creativity going on here!

[LibraryLady]

Oops, looks like we were posting at the same time. I like the format of the new design better.

I think the original slogan was better for the top "free audiobooks of classics."

Can the smaller text be wrapped so that it doesn't overlap with the book?

On second thought, I like the blank page for this poster. Something to do with it having a more modern look. The buttons are great and the red record would be cool but I don't think we're getting that fancy for now.

[Stephan]

Oh frags, please forget about the last one: http://www.vox.de/
Gord will take as much from my designs as he likes or not likes. I am off again.

Gord, its "Futura Bold". Make sure to minus-space a good deal in bold and in sizes like these if you use it. You know, the smaller the type, the larger the letter-spacing.

[kri]

The color one really does add a nice touch. Perhaps it could be used for internet purposes, instead of not using it at all.

[GordMackenzie]

I think Stephan was pointing to the fact that the Vox.de site uses the idea of the red circle for the "o" in Vox, so that it might not be a good idea to use it. I do like the last design, though!

Stephan... could you send me a high res clean image of the modification you did (the plug and buttons). You also nicely fixed the corner of the book (thanks!).

I'll do what I can to copy your layout, and we'll see what I can do.

By the way, folks might be interested that I'm using Gimp (http://www.gimp.org) and Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org) for the layout. Both are open source freeware (which is rather fitting for Librivox, I think!). Gimp is a "Photoshop" sort of application, while Inkscape is something like "Illustrator".

(oh... btw, I'm experiencing some problems with my hosting provider... my site, and the pics, should be back up by tomorrow... )

[Stephan]

No can do, it?s a low-res quick and dirty scribble from a screenshot of your poster. You?ll have to rebuild what you see.

[BradBush]

I really like where the poster is heading. Very nice work Gord and Stephan. Thanks.

Brad

[Stephan]

Thank you Brad.

Bing!
The empty pages are exactly right! The letters are the thing that have to be missing, because they are replaced by our voices.
Audiobooks! The moment you plug in those headphones, the letters dissapear. Don?t read BUT listen. Thats what we are saying.

Empty pages strengenth the concept of the poster magnificantly.

YOu know i was thinking of a closed book in the initial idea..that more like resembled a walkman in bookform. But you made it an audiobook!
Good job Gord.

I see it now, like the letters are sucked into the headphone, which is wonderful.

[hugh]

i haven't coommented here much, but i like these new ones - I keep imagining them in the New Yorker... what about words on the second half of the page, but getting sucked into the earphone cable? know what i mean?

just a thought.

ps. this must be one strange process - creativity by committee - maybe we should write a librivox short story, where everyone writes a sentence, one after the other, and then we read it aloud. & record it.

anyone game?

[kri]

ps. this must be one strange process - creativity by committee - maybe we should write a librivox short story, where everyone writes a sentence, one after the other, and then we read it aloud. & record it.

That would be a really fun project! I'm a terrible writer....but a sentence wouldn't be so difficult.

[Stephan]

good idea hugh!

letters beeing vaccuum sucked to the plug.
This image could replace the record, play, stop buttons. As these buttons are not so very clear what they are doing in a paper-book.

The sucked letter are a clearer message message perhaps.
This would be the compromise between having letters and no letters.
Its not an "audio-book" then. But the "creation of an audiobook"

What do the others think?

[Stephan]

Nah, the record button feels like an easier message to me.
I still prefer the buttons.

[kayray]

Yeah I liked the buttons.

And I preferred "Free classic audio books" or whatever it was before :)

[hugh]

I was thinking the text would be much more dense you know the top half full, then the the bottom half tapering into the plug.

but you may be right - too complicated a meassage.

ps i liked the buttons. very slick-looking - but i think there should be text on the page - otherwise it looks too new school.

[Stephan]

Whatever i tried sucking those lines in there, looked crappy.

Just for showing you book-pages on there....