[Newspoetry] new look for 2002, T-shirts

[Joe Futrelle]

Hello Newspoets,

Bob Porter and I are working on a T-shirt design, and in the process I'm 
revamping the "Newspoetry" logo graphics for the webpage.  The new logo is 
already installed on the indexes and will appear on newspoems starting 
tomorrow.  It needs tweaking.  I think the coloring is a little heavy.  And 
I hope to replace the scanned "News" with a re-scanned hand-drawn "News" 
like the old logo.  The main improvement is replacing the somewhat dorky 
font used for "poetry" with something classier.

As for the T-shirt design, we could still use input on what kinds of things 
people would like to see on the T-shirt, and what colors people are 
interested in (I'm thinking RW&B to go with our RW&B theme -- we were RW&B 
before patriotism was cool!).  The shirts will be monochrome but presumably 
we can make several batches with different shirt/ink colors.  So my initial 
idea is to make three batches:

Black on White (like Newsprint!)
White on Blue (and I mean American Flag blue, not powder or sky)
Blue on Red (for all you commies, cardiologists, and matadors)

When we have some alternatives finished, we'll post them to the list for 
comment.  If anyone else wants to get in on the design process, that's cool 
too, just let me & Bob know.


--
Joe Futrelle
editor-within-chief
http://www.newspoetry.com/