Another handbill for ya!

I put "meet in front of the New Daisy" on this one, because I'm not sure people will know what we mean by the Old Daisy. I'll change it if you guys don't like it.

And I called the event "Memphis Zombie Massacre." I don't know why, but it just felt more right than "walk" and even "crawl" when I was laying it out.

See any problems? Hate it to bits? Let me know before I go have it printed up.

So far, the 320 I had printed last week are gone, gone, gone.

Big flyers to come.

Handbills for this week's art trolley tour

Last night we talked about going ahead and getting some publicity materials downtown in time for the art tour crowd to see so they have some sort of idea of what's going to be happening next month.

This design is for a quarter-page black and white handbill. Should be super cheap to print up and cut, and they will be the perfect size to just lie on counters for people to pick up. Or, if the mood ever strikes, to be slid under windshield wipers.

I'll be coming up with other handbill designs, but this is something I just wanted to push out to have done in time.

If there are no objections to the wording or anything, I'll plan to have them printed up some time tomorrow and I'll hand them off to Sharon and whoever else might be able to make this Friday's art tour (I have to work, naturally).

Any idea how many copies we'd need?

Special interest groups

Sorry for bogarting the planning blog, y'all! It's just that as things occur to me, I figure I better go ahead and get them written down, or else there's a good chance that I'll forget completely. So, onward:

Stacy, I think you were the one who mentioned Roller Derby women the other night, right? I think we should definitely try to hook up with the Roller Derby and, if possible do some cross-promotion. According to their website, they've got several matches between now and May. I envision a trade-off: Zombies come and work the crowd at a couple of roller derby events, and then during the zombie walk, rollergirl zombies take to the streets on their skates. Could be a beautiful partnership.

Of course, it might not even take that much. The roller derby participants might be into coming to the march of their own volition without so much as any cross-promotion.

What other groups around town should we maybe look to recruit?

Electronic flyer

Here's a vague electronic flyer that we could use first on the Goner board and elsewhere on the web. If you guys would like me to add a web address on there, just let me know.

This is the first time I've ever gotten to use my Rocky Horror typeface, which makes me kind of giddy for completely dorky reasons.

Please pass along suggestions if you see anything wrong with this.

Zombie illustrations

Hey everyone, I guess I'll go ahead and kick the planning blog in the ass a bit tonight by passing along the first wave of zombie illustrations lent to me by my friend Jamie.

He said these were the ones already on his hard drive; he's going to scan in more and send them along too.

My favorite is the first, because it's the simplest and cleanest and it's already colored (although we could easily take it to black and white).

Have a look:






Let me know what you guys think about these — strong opinions one way or another. I'll post the next batch when he sends them along.

Lindsey