Conclave T-Shirts

[Denzein]

Actually, that's a point, do people want to leave the words 'Inquisitorial Representative' on there, or have just the name?

I vote drop "Inquisitorial Representative", the fact that the text is quite obviously a name does away with the need for the extra words.

[Kaled]

Yeah, I'd drop it - names and usernames is plenty.

[greenstuff_gav]

i vote for:



yeah, we'd need to provide cash  upfront afore the ordering but can't see that as a problem?

[Brother_Brimstone]

Ohhhh, thanks for that, Gav, that's great! Would you mind if i forward that (along with the larger versions of the images you've posted to this thread before) on to my girlfriend's parents, so they can use it to get a price from the printing people? It seems that the Clave has spoken regarding its favoured design, so I can start putting this in motion now.

People wouldn't necessarily have to pay me before I made the order as long as they're coming to the Summer Clave, you can just give me cash there, as that may be easier. As long as upon ordering people promise they will actually buy the shirts, come Summer Clave, I have no problem with it - I have met you all before; and I know you're a trustworthy lot. That is, unless for some reason or another people think it would be preferable to take cash before ordering; the only problem being that I've never sold anything online before (outside of ebay), so I wouldn't know how to set up the payment.

However, those who aren't coming to the Summer Clave who want to get one mailed to them, would obviously have to sort some way of transferring the money online before I send the shirt.

[greenstuff_gav]

Ohhhh, thanks for that, Gav, that's great! Would you mind if i forward that (along with the larger versions of the images you've posted to this thread before) on to my girlfriend's parents, so they can use it to get a price from the printing people?

not a problem
i'd like

Greenstuff
GAV

(obviously with GAV enlarged to the right length!) for mine please

[Brother_Brimstone]

Great, thanks.

When I do start taking orders, which will obviously be after I get a price, I'll need people to tell me what size they want, as well as the name they want on it. Will update this thread as soon as I get the info.

[Brother_Brimstone]

Update!

Okay, so firstly, we've had a quote back from the printing people, and factoring the cost of decent quality t-shirts (no point getting crappy cheap ones printed up as they'll just deteriorate) it should come to about £15

However, before we can print it i need higher quality versions of the images, to quote the printer's email:

"we will require better artwork than that what you have sent as it is not suitable for printing purposes.  If you print off the attachments, you can see that they are very pixelated, it's as if they have got them off a website.  I do require these in an eps, high res jpeg or vector file"

I have 0 experience with image manipulation etc... so i wouldn't know where to start making something like this, and I don't know if anyone already has a high-quality version of the files, but if someone could point me in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it! Otherwise, it's another £20 for them to digitize our images for us, which seems like a bit of a waste, if we can do it ourselves.

[Van Helser]

Sounds like a bargain.

I'd be wanting:

Ruaridh

Van Helser

I can't offer any help with the image manipulation though.  I'm a bit of a luddite.

Ruaridh

[greenstuff_gav]

I don't know if anyone already has a high-quality version of the files,

apparently we don't
several digital / arty people have mentioned doing some but i've not seen anything and lack the time to do it myself
ill dig out what i've got and see which one is the best

[Brother_Brimstone]

Cool, well if anyone can do it, that'd be great. As I say, I would, but I know absolutely nothing about digital artwork and image manipulation. Still, if we can't get someone to do that, then we'll have to add the cost of digitising the images to the cost of the shirt :/

[MarcoSkoll]

This is obviously not completely identical (or finished yet), but I had a  ~2000 pix skull =][= emblem kicking around from the unfinished Amalathian cover, so I figured I might as well use it and start to piece together a ersatz of the old version.


(The full size version is 5000x2000).

May finish it in a couple of days or it might take a bit longer.  I've got to finish the stuff for the INQvitational rather more urgently than this.

[Brother_Brimstone]

That's awesome, Marco, thanks very much! And it's cool; there's no huge rush - the summer Clave is still quite a long time away!

[MarcoSkoll]

Not a problem.

In the meantime, if anyone has any observations they want to make, please do so, as I make no pretences about being a graphic designer. I'm not currently doing any more than approximating what we had before, as I assume that's what people want.

[Brother_Brimstone]

I like it as it is, but just a quick thought - while there's no immediate rush (the Inqvitational is in nine days, right?), I'll be going to china from 24th of June until the end of august, and then I'm visiting friends in Cornwall for a couple of weeks. The upshot of this is that while my girlfriend's parents will be picking us up from the airport at the end of august, I'll have to move on to Cornwall after that, and from there, more or less straight onto the summer Clave (a busy time!). Thus, I'd like to get the details for the shirt sorted before I go to China, so that they can give me the shirts when they pick me up and I can then bring them on to the Summer Clave, otherwise It's going to be somewhat difficult to organise.

I hate to be a pain, and be too prescriptive with deadlines, especially as you're doing this for no material gain, but if you could get the designs ready for me to forward to the printers by the 24th of June it would really help me sort everything out. If not, I'll just have to hope I can get internet somewhere in China, and that this site isn't blocked by the Great Firewall.

[MarcoSkoll]

The INQvitational is June 9th, and I'll likely have crashed out for a lot of June 10th.

However, I've already finished most of the remaining cables, which means I've only got a bit more to do before tidying it up (not having any decent vector editor, I'm sketching it with a graphics tablet - so there are a few rough edges to knock off).

I wouldn't be entirely surprised to have it done before June 9th - I'm just not promising it. June 24th should be easy, short of some huge catastrophe. (It's like an apostrophe, but it happens to a cata instead of an apo).

If I'm not done by after the INQvitational, feel free to start bugging me. Just don't bug me before!