The Poster - stage 2

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 16th, 2006, 4:45 pm

**claps** Bravo! I think we have a winner! At least I think so.

The only thing I don't love is the blurb. Here's my suggestion:

"librivox volunteers collaborate to record books in the public domain and publish the audio files on the internet for you to listen to or download for free"

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » January 16th, 2006, 5:21 pm

or "..for you to download and listen to for free."

???

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 16th, 2006, 5:56 pm

yes, that does sound better.

kayray · Post by **kayray** » January 16th, 2006, 6:59 pm

Yes yes!

This one!

http://librivox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8320#8320

With

"Librivox volunteers collaborate to record books in the public domain and publish the audio files on the internet for you to download and listen to for free."

Beautiful work, Stephan and Gord and everyone! I can hardly WAIT to get my hands on a nice printable PDF.

edit: Showed Dan -- he loves it! He suggests leaving out the small-print blurb at the bottom left. He thinks there's enough visual information there that we don't need that extra text -- that it's very clear without it. Maybe it's worth working up one more version, just to see?

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » January 16th, 2006, 8:09 pm

I don?t think the "blurp" hurts. It adds another step in the hierarchy of information, for those who went as far as to linger in front of the poster and actually start to read it. Those people exist. Its a chance for us to provide some information that MAYBE sticks.

Its a very reduced poster already and i don?t think we need to go THAT far to take it away. I?d never have thought you?d accept my more reduced layout anyway and go for a compromise with gords, which on the other hand i would have accepted.

It's still in bold anyway. If its too much for us we can make it regular weight. That, as well as finetuning the composition is a thing to evaluate with test-printouts in considerable size.

The text is not spicy enough yet though.
Wouldn?t hurt to make it a tat more charming, sparking, cute, lovely, provocative. - I have no idea.

"Librivox volunteers collaborate to record books..." brings it beautifully objectivly and short to the point BUT it's the equivalent of gray paper-mach?. It is a good base to spice it up now.

kri · Post by **kri** » January 16th, 2006, 9:49 pm

For someone who actually takes the time to read the little text/blurb, you want it to be exciting. Perhaps if you made the blurb more about the person viewing the poster than us volunteers. For example...

"Listen to books read by people who love to read and want to share the classics with you. The best thing is that it's free, and Librivox welcomes you to volunteer too."

Preferably something better than that. The point is that the focus is on the audience that we're targetting this to, not the volunteers. It's much more interesting to read something about yourself than someone else you don't know, right?

Post by **hugh** » January 17th, 2006, 6:26 am

How bout:

"LibriVox will change the way you think about books. Volunteers from all over the world -- maybe you are one? -- record chapters of books in the public domain, and make them available for free. Why? Because they love reading, they love being read to, and they love reading to you. Listen. Read. LibriVox."

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » January 17th, 2006, 7:06 am

I like that, Hugh. Very good.

I?d just change a tiny bit:
"Because they love reading, they love being read to, and they love reading to you."
There is a bit too much in it.

kri · Post by **kri** » January 17th, 2006, 7:15 am

OK, Hugh yours is far better and I like it a lot. It's written a bit more conversationally too, which is nicer to read.

Post by **hugh** » January 17th, 2006, 8:24 am

LibraryLady · Post by **LibraryLady** » January 17th, 2006, 3:12 pm

Perfect Hugh! I don't think it is redundant, it gets the point across very well.

ceastman · Post by **ceastman** » January 17th, 2006, 5:28 pm

Sounds great! I think the only change I'd suggest is change the question to an exclamation: get excited by the idea that the reader might be interested in volunteering :

"Volunteers from all over the world -- maybe you are one! -- record chapters of books in the public domain, etc..."

Anyway, just a thought.

-Catharine

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » January 17th, 2006, 5:40 pm

Good point, Catherine.

thistlechick · Post by **thistlechick** » January 17th, 2006, 5:43 pm

.... I need a business card sized "flyer" ... I had the perfect opportunity today to tell someone I didn't know about librivox, and all I could do was hand him the url to him handwritten on a sticky note... Would someone please work up a small layout that I can use in a business card format?

Stephan · Post by **Stephan** » January 17th, 2006, 5:54 pm

hm..good one betsie.
When we are settled with the poster, we can easily do a flyer AND business card.

Gord, if you don?t wanna re-do the poster after the layout, feel free to send me the high-resolution rendering of the headphones (really high!) and the scan of the book, and i do it early february. Its easy for me, especially since i got all the type set here already. I?d photograph or render a piece of plug and the missing piece of cord too. No problem either.

If its a 3dmax model (did you do it?) you can send me the max file too.
Again, awesome idea to come up with these slick white, properly lit headphones....and its perfect that they miss any texture or specularity...and the depths blur. They really constitute the poster! Rocks.

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