Last winter member Peggy Furlin suggested that it would be good to be able to identify other artists out on the road and said that maybe a "Red Dot" bumper sticker would help us find one another. We made them, we've been passing them out to members of this community and it is now time to order more of them.
There was some conversation about the initial design and am now wondering if any of you have other ideas about the design.
Here is what we have now:
Any ideas for improvement? I remember Leo Charette had some good ideas but now I've misplaced those. Help me now. Order has to go in asap! Thanks.
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I was driving around North Atlanta the other day and had a driver next to me that I tried to let merge ahead of me. He was driving me crazy because he kept slowing down, then speeding up and looking at me and trying to get me to roll down my window. I can't roll down my passenger window, it is broken, old art van. Did I have a flat tire? I was probably yelling mean things to him until I realized that he was trying to tell me that he understood the red dot. Something about his mom. He finally just waved and drove away, but the red dot does work. It sort of reminds me of the Tin Can Campers. If I saw a red dot on a stalled car I would stop.
Anyway I vote for Munks idea, or just dropping the .com. I like the AFI on the red dot. The red dot really stands out on my dark green grand voyager.
How about a white field with a red dot in the center with two slightly smaller red dots tangentially set at about 10 and 2 o'clock respectively. On the outer edge near the end of the white field, put "I'm a Munksketeer" all the way around the circle. That's the ticket!
What.
What's wrong with that?
Is there a universal symbol for the art world? If there is, why not use that? Or what about the just the word ART (or does that insult the crafters, who I consider artists)
Or you could leave it a solid red because everyone here knows what it means.
I don't understand how a bumper sticker helps when you would see the vehicle in a parking lot and the driver would most likely not be in it.
Universal symbol for:
art world = Red Dot
art Fair = White Canopy
At the risk of being ridiculed by Munks for mentioning I am a graphic designer and branding expert ...
When I visit this website, every single word in rendered in the font Comic Sans. Connie, did you do this on purpose? I'm pretty sure the web designer needs to force that to happen. Also, the website is entirely done in shades of orange. Mostly a darker, pumpkin-like orange, which I think is very nice.
If your goal for these stickers is just to have members recognize each other on the road, and not to drive people to the website, the I would do simply "AFI" in Comic Sans. The dot should be orange, not red.
And I agree strongly with everyone else that the ".com" after "AFI" is not right, because it is someone else's URL.
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And when you post to blogs, or design your own landing page, you can edit the font-styles and the background color. Check out some of the member pages for examples. Comic Sans is a very readable, almost monospaced font. It may be the default for Ning sites. I don't know about that. When I write a blog post, I will change the font-styles. If I could write my own style sheet for the site, I would. :-)
To be honest, as I designer I would not choose Comic Sans either. But my personal preference is not what matters here. It has a down-to-earth nature which I think matches the membership, not just the website. Though I am a big fan of orange. It represents energy, creativity, non-conformity, you know kind-of like a self-employed artist.
As for what a red dot means in an art gallery, we aren't talking about galleries! I've never seen a red dot at an art festival. Could we have a sticker that represents an empty spot in a display? (grin)
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