meet up on thurs

heys all howd we all fair with esssay writing and in mitch's case, not essay writing? =D

so what time on thursday are we proposing to meet up and what do we want to start doing?

doing mockups using the stamp>?

think we did a pretty great job with the preso so yay for that. did you guys hear about the extension we got also? 3 extra days - should be handy seeing as we wanna make everything by hand.

anywayz, emily was suggesting like 10? How does that sit for the rest of youguys? earlier or later or perfect? .. i would personally not prefer earlier.. cause i need to go to aldis for that snow sale in the morning which is apparently some big thing and that opens at 9am so ill prob be a BIIT late even if we start at 10.

woop

Hi Black Out Team,
I am very sorry I have been uncontactable for the past week. I am sure the responses of the rest of the committee were very considered though, and I
agree with their letter sent to you earlier by Eleanor.
I haer that the meeting at our community centre went very well and the women were very impressed with your willingness to really try to understand
what felting is, and what it can be.
Thankyou for your enthusiasm.
warm regards,
Anita Larkin
sculptor & feltmaker
www.anitalarkin.com

black or white!?

huh...

sooo...

well... ok they don't want the blacked out version of the logo!

do we listen to them or not?

to be or not to be!?

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Dear Blackout Team,

I've held off replying until the eleventh hour in the vain hope that I could contact Anita so that she could add her input. She is still in NZ. However, it looks as though we shall have to proceed with out her.

The rest of the Committee were unanimous in voting for option 1a. We definitely are of the opinion that the shield would need to be at least the same size as the lettering and we much prefer it to not be of any colour. We're mindful that if the logo and shield are too small the design could become unidentifiable and look more like a blob; for example, if it were to be used on a business card.

We were all very impressed by the mock up for the complimentary card and the letterhead. Having the wool fibre look down the right hand side is so very appropriate. The way you've done the photos looks great too so we've nothing to add on that score.

Thank you for presenting us with these options and all the very best with the next step of the project.

Regards

Eleanor

Treasurer

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The Illawarra Feltmakers Incorporated
P O Box 4247
SHELLHARBOUR NSW 2529
theillawarrafeltmaker@westnet.com.au

reply wow that was quick

Hello Blackout Team,

Thank you for the latest logo proposal. We will do our best to notify you of our preference by the 27th. Unfortunately Anita ( our President ) is in New Zealand all this week so we'll have to do this without her input.

We're pleased you enjoyed your visit to last workshop and hope you've found a use for your creations. We appreciated your hands-on approach.

Regards

Eleanor

our feedback from aaages ago!

hey hey guys heres the feedback sheet in case you guys wanted a copy! sorry it took me so long to scan it i had scanned it ages ago jst forgot.

Meeting with jo

Alright guys, had the meeting with Jo and she got feed back from the feltmakers about how awesome we are (win.) anyway I think we really got this one in the bag so it's good to know all our aplications will not just be for not because they'll most likely go with our logo. -celebrate (hopfully not premature)-

Anyway, Jo loved the typeface I made, she said it perfectly encompassed the feltmakers and what they are trying to be with the organic hand made type which doesn't look computer made yet is. Although this is good that she loves it, she loves it a little too much, as such she made some suggestion about the logo pictogram...

she basically wants it to be of less importance to logo, which I'm not sure about, she did the second black one below.

She stated that the border around it made the shape 'too busy' which I don't know if I agree with. Anyway, there 3 options I was thinking we should submit to the feltmakers and just let them choose. Will delay getting the stamp BUT we still have plenty of time, we could get test prints of other stamps to see what it'd look like on different card if you wanted to do something whilst we get a reply.

Anyway, thoughts?

Our logo looks like INDIAN architecture AND DAIRY icecream

INDIAN
------------ = 1
DIARY

(cancel each other out seem icecream melts in indian and they worship cows therefore would not eat dairy.)

Therefore our design do not look islamic / indian / dairy product.

ended up with stuff coming up today so only jst got home but said id so something so iv just done reaaaally quick tests but im tired and going to bed.

basically jst live traced a few shields and cheated my morphing them... mainly jst to give some perspective as to how our shape fits as opposed to say sharper edges or more boxy or squary looks

shields shields shields

yo bros

Here's a random collection of shields... just to look at the shape.

will try and draw some shield shapes when i get a chance later tonight.

stationery research and website structure

http://rapidshare.com/files/388192691/website_structure.pdf.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/388192692/stationery_research.pdf.html

Rubber stamps

This is the link for the rubber stamp shop,
Check it out.

www.rubberstamps.com.au/

felt ????

just a few questions for the feltmakers..

• Potentially how many of each kind of stationery would they be needing and how often?

e.g. postcards - how many will they want to have printed and how often?

• How long does it take to make an A1 size piece of felt?

• Preference with stamping vs printing? Up to about how many until they don't want to handmake them?

• How expensive is felt? e.g. could potentially be using a bit for our work. e.g. bookmarks also.

• Can we get a copies of their past newsletters?

• Have they currently got a printery they use or would they like us to find them quotes for a good, cost efficient printer for them?

feltlee

this is for jesse who didint get a copy of this.

or for any of you guys if you lose it or need to access it :)

http://rapidshare.com/files/386720703/FONT_AND_REFINED_LOGO_AT_LEE_AND_ME.pdf.html

LOGO

I made a bold weight, what do you all think? does it need to go Bolder?

Also i changed the logo slightly, i moved the hands up a bit, to fill in the space i above.

Swintag Style

Hey all here is that swingtag that i was talking about, tactile in nature, this is made by actually creasing the card......... it could be an option...

Great meeting also, im working on the logo now,

lee and me?

yay excursion!

early morning coffeeeeeeeeeeee

9am.

yew.

Type finder.

http://typenav.fontshop.com/

Feltypography

Hey all check out this font!

....inspiration?

Bigger than UOW

Hey guys google DESN311 or DESN301 our blog out ranks UOW pages. It OUR course.

FML phone

Welp, I was in town when you came round, I just assumed we weren't doing it because I got no message yesterday afternoon (at which point I lost my phone in Andy's car) FML everything so messed up not having a phone.

feltpark

hi guys

just in case, here is a zip file of the pdf so far.

ill bring over my laptop to the park? any extra files can be viewed off of that.

http://rapidshare.com/files/383704451/letter_for_the_client_Folder.zip.html

hey read me

http://rapidshare.com/files/383053205/Letter_for_the_Client.pdf.html

hey guys

im not paticulalry happy with this pdf i dunno maybe its cause the logos are not big enough but thats how big the images i was supplied with. woulda preffered ai files thou woulda made it easier.

so i dotn wanna send the email until im sure

so can you check this and double check your happy with it?

http://rapidshare.com/files/382993141/ffuu.pdf.html

Sorry everyone using my internet again.

here you go annie. This took fricken forever to upload even with it's tiny size.

so feltable

Hey guys sorry it took me a while to post this but these were some of the images i showed from the last meeting

Minutes from the meeting we had on the 27/4/10

• Handmade

• Dainty vs Substantial bulky and tactile

• Tactile Nature

• Textures

• Dense

• Ripped edges

We went through each member with their ideas and approach to logo designs. Jesse went for more elegant and emblamatic, Emily went for more contemporary and diagrammatic, Mitch went for a very tactile, touchable, bold, approach and Annie went for a more ornamental, tribal look. 

These four elements are all important. We made a moodboard.

Were you still going to put up the stuff from that Jesse? cause you have the brainstormed ideas and concepts :S

Questions:

- Festivals? Do they need any extra content for these?

- How many postcards do they intend to print> How regularly and at what cost? (we thinking about using felt on the back of the postcards)

We want: contemporary yet traditional or tacile, detailed, tribal yet sleek and pictogramic.