So, my recent experience with Blurb got me thinking.

We can set up a GroupBook using their software and we could perhaps produce a collab book of illustrations / designs / photos, whatever.

Then it got me thinking that we could have some sort of theme which could be Marissa's Bunny. Final thought on this, we could then sell the book using blurb's online store and give the cash earned to the cause.

Whaddayathink?

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Contributors:
veedot
chris
squapple
be-jot
urbansurgeon
biff
flak
mick
orsom rockwell
elliot-20
meska
skyler
CPU
toby
LaFemmeMikita
wormsnot
pants
nicko

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Page template:

Here's the template for a full bleed PAGE in the book (it's a white page so just right click and save to your local disk:

http://www.mabuk.co.uk/yay/template.jpg

DO NOT reduce the resolution. Make sure all your work is kept at 300dpi, RGB format
DO NOT place critical items close to the trim. Allow 10mm (1/3") border.

Email the finished piece to me: pythonick@gmail.com

Feel free to email an "in progress" file to make sure everything is OK. I'll drop a placeholder into the book and let you know if there's anything to worry about.

DEADLINE: 26 October 2008

The template is for one single page... we're doing spreads (two pages side-by-side), so what you will get is as the graphic below (white areas denote the two pages. Grey outer is simply 'background').

Happy?

OH I LOVE IT!!!!!!!

I love it ! That would be an amazing keeps sake. Fantastic idea

Let's do it then

oh, ok!

I guess we need to figure out how many people want to be in... then allow a DPS for each contributor?

are we talking just any artwork at all? ie pst bits

i'd love you to count me in but i really can't make any promises deadline wise

work and homelife are pretty tough right now

Yup... we could do that.

urban added to first post

I don't do design, but I'll find some nice pics from the archive.

Biff said...I don't do design, but I'll find some nice pics from the archive.

exactly what i meant by chosen genre, the contrast from the designers work to none designers work will be interesting

Well, you graphic design types- you've got Chris' Fairfax interpretation (if you need others, I have them), you've got pictures of the bunny at places you can scavenge from the site.

How about interpretations of a theme from a graphic design point of view? The PST matches get wild, why not this?

nicko said...Well, it doesn't have to be pictures...

To elaborate on this, I mean that if the non-designery people wanted to write something - be it a piece of prose / poetry - then the designery types (I volunteer myself) could do some nice typography type thing.

Nah mean?

Oooooooooooooo thoughts of *Alice in Wonderland* are dancing across my mind........

or everyone uses the wonderland rabbit...

I think the title should be 'Rabbit'

as for me - i can contribute photos or "art" ("design" since i can't draw ) or i can also write something, although my english skills as a writer suck ass - so it wouldn't do any good.
but maybe we can make it "introglobally rabbit collab" and then i could write something in polish

i have a solution... flak in a bunny costume... *nod* it would be awesome.

I was going to make a furry joke, but realized this is a lot cooler.

i want to make stuff for 'rabbit'!

Need to decide what size / format we want the book to be.

I'm thinking standard format 0-40 pages with a hard cover and image wrap. Costs £15.95 / $31.95 each to produce (10% discount for 10-199 copies).

The reason I think we should have the standard sized book rather than the large format size is because I think we can get away with greater margins in the Blurb bookstore and still have a reasonably priced book.

I feel we could easily have 75-100% margin on a smaller book, the bigger size might just seem too expensive if we apply the same margin.

Ultimately it's all about how much cash we can raise.

What do you guys think?

nicko said...Oh, and I should add that Blurb doesn't take a cut of the profits for books sold through their store. Happy days.

Wow, how do they make money?

Also, I might be up for the "buddy up with a designer" thing, we'll see. I don't know that I have any ideas, hehe.

So, any feelings about size/format?

the format looks fine, i'm ok with that
the dust cover though - i'm not so sure about it - i never really like those things, they always get fucked first
but it's just me - if you guys think it's all good, then it's all fine

like this one:

i didn't realize this would cost. i'm really broke.