[Smashpatriarchy] Posters

[Christopher Leinonen]

I regret that I probably won't be able to attend the meeting this weekend.
 I started a new project at work this week and it's got a very steep curve.
 Things will settle down, but for now... no time.  :(

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Peter Gill <petergill85 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Dan Richardson <glacier_fed at hotmail.com>wrote:
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>>  I like Christopher's idea about the posters. Similar style and splitting
>> up the messages.
>>
>> Is there a day/time for the meeting set?
>>
>> Dan
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>> From: christopher.leinonen at gmail.com
>> Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 18:45:10 -0800
>> To: smashpatriarchy at lists.resist.ca
>> Subject: [Smashpatriarchy] Posters
>>
>>
>> Hey folks!  Just doing some thinking regarding the posters.  It seems
>> that all of the material we've got is very text heavy.
>>
>> The first poster I looked at was for the Gender Violence poster.  My
>> thinking is that it would encourage people to read the poster and make
>> things more interesting if we split the 10 tips into 10 different posters:
>> one poster for each tip.  As well, it'd be best if we could try to distill
>> each point into one or two sentences, ideally in simple language.  I might
>> be able to re-adapt them, although for the moment I'm feeling a little
>> overwhelmed with some other stuff I've got going on.
>>
>> Anyway, I feel like having 10 posters (all in a similar style) would be
>> really useful, because if someone sees two posters and notices that they're
>> different (or if they see "ten ways to stop gender violence: #4") then they
>> might look for more.  It also encourages the idea that this is something
>> you can search out information for in other venues, as well.
>>
>>
>> I think this would also work with the "creepiness" text, though it might
>> help if some of them were cut back even a little further.  But hold off on
>> doing that, Reg, I might be able to make it work -- and thank you for
>> adapting the article!
>>
>>
>> For the Stop Rape poster, I think it could be worked similarly, but it
>> might work if each point was 1/4 sized.
>>
>>
>> As for the Gender poster, I think it's okay as it is?  I question whether
>> anyone will stand around and read it, but it has a more street-art type
>> quality anyway, so it might attract a bit more attention.
>>
>>
>> I tried to attach some of the posters from the summer MRA times, but the
>> email got spit back at me, so I guess it's a no-go for the time being.  (If
>> everyone gets this message twice, my apologies!)
>>
>> -Chris
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