collaboration: fazylucker calendar
thanks go to mick for this one, she's been pestering for a while now 
i hope that you lot remember the baseboard calendars we did in the past - they ended up totally excellent in many ways (apart from meeting deadlines hehe)!!
the basic idea for this is that each of us (if you want to, of course) creates a design for a single calendar month. the format will be the same as everyone else, let's say 200dpi tiff files, a4 for now, but we can change this if needs be. the months will then be hosted for anyone to download and print out, and hang on their walls etc.
mick suggested we host a template for you guys to just drop images into, something with the month's dates and days already done, but i think it would be better to let you all stick the dates in yourselves, to integrate with the design more betterer.
the design doesn't need to completely fill an a4, but remember that most people will be printing on an a4 printer. there's scope here to make use of large amounts (relatively) of white space in your design, could be cool.
mick, is this right?
i hope that you lot remember the baseboard calendars we did in the past - they ended up totally excellent in many ways (apart from meeting deadlines hehe)!!
the basic idea for this is that each of us (if you want to, of course) creates a design for a single calendar month. the format will be the same as everyone else, let's say 200dpi tiff files, a4 for now, but we can change this if needs be. the months will then be hosted for anyone to download and print out, and hang on their walls etc.
mick suggested we host a template for you guys to just drop images into, something with the month's dates and days already done, but i think it would be better to let you all stick the dates in yourselves, to integrate with the design more betterer.
the design doesn't need to completely fill an a4, but remember that most people will be printing on an a4 printer. there's scope here to make use of large amounts (relatively) of white space in your design, could be cool.
1. pick a monthright, any suggestions / questions / ridicule so far?
2. create a 200dpi, a4 document
3. design / photograph / sew / paint / vomit artistically onto the document, and don't forget to add the days and dates so that it can function as a calendar
4. save as a tiff / eps
5. host the file and a web thumbnail (or ask me if you need to)
6. everyone has loads of stuff to choose from!
mick, is this right?
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my suggestion was that we make pics with the calendar template on them .. blank. and let people put in their own month and days. that way, any pic could be used for any month.
now what am i going to do with those 2 examples i sent you, i ask?!? heeee! and i learned to make a calendar template for nothing??
*one sob for max drama*
it's going to be fine.. you know much better than i what will work.
it only took 3 months from suggestion to sticky.
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(i even posted this from work, not the house - and i set up the imac at home now too (eventually))
I'd like October...
I like the template and the no template ideas....
though it shouldn't be too hard to do both should it?
I mean aren't we all savvy enough that we can make a design
that would cover both?!?!?!
hip hip hooray!!!!!
also, you can do any months you like, the more, the merrier, aight?!
here's a small shot of the first example i sent him.. low rez and sloppy.. and admittedly not for everyone.
chris was ho-hum about it. i wonder why *cough* hehe
so i went farther and learned to make a real calendar template:
(Illu template)
and made this as an example. (thumb links to a jpeg.. these are examples)
below is a link is the calendar layout tiff in A4 size. I included a PS "style" that covers the blending options i used on the "display" font (Adobe Garamond Pro, which is NOT used on the actual calendar layout, but is in the demo jpg)
http://homepage.mac.com/m1ck/.Pictures/do_accept_substitutes.zip
that was what i'd thought up.
i look forward to a year of kewl calendars.
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2. A4
3. I managed, but without the 'artistically' requirement.
4. PDF?
5. sock, please help!
that's a good point - pdf is good too, something easy for others to download and print, etc.
2. Ok, if it has to be
3. ~has a salad, in preparation~
4. let me know; there's plenty of time
5. I'll bother you later
~retreats to background, watching the true artists with continued awe
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Too many terrible memories from those years (but baseboard kept me sane..heheookOOk)
all you'll need to do is download the template and stick an image behind the dates, then host the resulting file somewhere. i'm sure that you have spare images lying around. just take a photo of some illustrations which 'never made it' and whack it on - job's a good 'un!
~sucks thumb under desk, next to G5~
hey, if i can make a page, so can you. i ate salad fer this.......
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landscape or portrait.
I'm not far in enough for it to matter but it will soon.
really, just think of a4 being the maximum area, you don't need to fill it completely. the limit is just there for ease of printing. the months will all be separate - not a compiled calender.
tbh, you don't even really need to make the dates and stuff particularly big / usable. be as arty as you like, innit
not you, bull...
*threat* i'm going to make a january calendar tonight and post it. you'll be sorry. neener
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the tiff is huge; i'll work on uploading it. dotmac tells me it will take 13 hours, and dotmac don't resume.
get busy, or i'll do this again. :P
so....
maybe you will feel a bit of nostalgia when you drop these (all at once) in stuffit expander.
Jan_08 part 1
Jan_08 part 2
Jan_08 part 3
Jan_08 part 4
Jan_08 part 5
if you wonder why it's archived AND zipped, it's because that made the whole thing 660 KB smaller. i cared.
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ps.. does anyone feel prodded or do i have to do this again?
a preview
so.. the grid.. how about as a display for all the houses you've designed, or.. GearedUp... beer you've sampled?
welcome to it, if so.
i hope you like yellow.
base.. good colours! i've a neighbour who painted their garage door something like that. it's awesome.
*sigh* so... "make one for december"... does that mean you won't do it until november?
and thx for the pic
why yes, yes i am.
odd that the link to the grid comes up in a new browser window and displayed by quicktime. heh ...if you actually download it, it's 3346x2362 px/ 300dpi/ bitmap (sorry..Illu hates me)/ and has an obvious and easily fixed flaw (blush).
(BTW- I do understand a gash is a cut, just don't understand how it applies to kerning...is there an official kerning rule book that i forgot to read... wouldn't matter anyways, i don't like rules or standards or expectations of rules and standards and all of that what not...)
"I don't know about art, but i know what i like"
assuming I can get the linking right.
chris, i like that December calendar very much, and i'll look forward to it being updated for 2008.
wormy.. wowie! zowie, also
well done, you two.
i'm a little embarrassed, since you're all pros and i'm not ..but.. nah...:D i've never let that stop me yet.
these are selling really well (really well in my small part of the world =18 , so far)
they are customizable; people decide what colours they want, and if they want holidays marked.
the first one was for a primary school, and it's selling well, in spite of being lurid. the other "stock" colour schemes are calm bluegrey, navajo rug, and olivini.
jpeg for demo. pdf prints on A4 size paper.
customizable pdf
Thats awesome!
Fantastic idea, and looks great with the colors.
looks easy to edit the colors to anyones favorites as well.
two thumbs up for sure.
it really is popular; i'm having to come up with more "stock" ideas, though. people are finding out (as i have) that it's not that easy to come up with a colour progression that works.
here's what i have right now, and i'm working on one with rosey hues.
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july + orchids = warm delight
i like that very much, bull.
heh.. i'm also tickled you used that template.
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