[CREATE] Artists needed: ad designs for LGM pledgie fundraiser

celine celines celinecelines at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 10:17:32 PDT 2011


Ok so I have played around the first banner for LinuxPro 468x60

Please tell me if that could work. The DONATE is a link to Pledgie

Thanks,
Celine

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com>wrote:

> Hi all.  We're in need of some artwork to run pointing folks towards the
> LGM Pledgie campaign site.  We have media sponsors lined up that will
> give us free impressions, we just need "the creative."
>
> The specs so far include:
>
> LinuxPro: Banner 468 x 60
> LinuxPro: Skyscraper 160 x 600
> --
> LinuxJournal: Banner 728x90
> --
> Text ads for LWN:
> Title field: 48 characters
> Body field: 120 characters
>
> In all three, we can link to an URL (which in the text ad does not count
> against our character limit); we'll use the Pledgie URL.
>
> There are more to come, but we need something for these ASAP.  Best idea
> is to coordinate, so that we use the same design motifs for all three --
> makes for a more unified campaign blitz and makes it easier to adapt the
> artwork to varying sizes rather than start from scratch.  Obviously on
> the text ad, we'd want to use the same message.
>
> Please submit a design (or three!) to the issue tracker at
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/create-project/+bug/744413
>
> Comment #5 (
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/create-project/+bug/744413/comments/5 ) lists
> the specs again for reference.
>
> Things to keep in mind: these media sponsors are (so far) all Linux /
> FLOSS sites; the know the projects and so do the readers.  They may,
> however, be more receptive to the campaign if we focus on the fact that
> all funds go towards developer travel, and that the event is a
> collaborative effort.  But don't camp out on that; any and all ideas are
> welcome.
>
> We'd like to launch the campaigns by Friday, so please submit art work
> between now and Thursday.
>
> Thanks!
> Nate
>
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