[Noisebridge-discuss] Submitting billboard designs to promote hackerspaces

[Mitch Altman]

Thanks for the nice rule of thumb.  Have you made a billboard before?  Any examples you can show?
 
Mitch.

 


Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:30:44 -0700
Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] Submitting billboard designs to promote hackerspaces
From: matt at woz.org
To: adi at hexapodia.org
CC: maltman23 at hotmail.com; dmhomee at gmail.com; willow.bl00 at gmail.com; j at bucketworks.org; mistriss_poet at hotmail.com; astera at hackerspaces.org; noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net

A good rule of thumb for billboard advertising is eight words or less.


BUT, if you know the rules about billboard design, you can break them. That's why I suggested doing a comic. The comic idea would NOT work for a billboard on a highway though, only for billboards in an urban center (you need pedestrians).


-Matt


P.S. No need to worry about upgrading a server for a billboard, it will not create a lot of demand. HOWEVER, if you get some good PR out of it in some way, then that may.


P.P.S. There are other outdoor advertising options besides billboards.



On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:


On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 04:37:06PM -0700, Mitch Altman wrote:
>
> I was thinking that it would be cool to have a collaborative billboard for the three spaces in the Bay Area.  Something like?:
>      HACKERSPACES,
>           (they're not what you think)
>                 --  TEACH, LEARN, SHARE  WHAT YOU LOVE
>                Find one near you:
>                www.tiny.cc/hackerspaces

I like this.  How about linking to hackerspaces.org?  The map there is
pretty awesome.  Might need to beef up the web hosting if it's likely to
get crushed under the load, though. :)

CCing Astera.

-andy

 		 	   		  
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