[Coco] Rainbow style ads for our CoCo Contest Magazine

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Mike Rowen <mike at bcmr3.net> wrote:
> The ads look very cool. :) I'll put one together too. Any preferred pixel dimensions or graphic formats for this?
>

Awesome!  As for format, etc... I am using Adobe Illustrator for the
layout, with standard 8.5x11 page size and 300 DPI.
That means ideally a full page image would be 2550 x 3300, though
actually twice that is better in case any resizing needs to be done.

If you can do native Illustrator or any vector format, that is even
better than fixed resolution.

If none of that makes sense or seems easy, do not worry about it at
all :)   Just send me plain text and the highest resolution images you
have, and a description or drawing or any mock up of how you'd like
things to look and I'll lay them out for you, no problem at all.

-Aaron



> Cheers,
> -Mike
>
> On Apr 6, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Coconuts,
>>
>> As many of you already know, we are putting together a "Rainbow style"
>> magazine featuring reviews of the CoCo Contest entries.
>> We're also including "advertisements" for many of the programs or
>> other CoCo projects.  These have been fun to put together, a way to
>> remember the good old days of Rainbow magazine.
>>
>> Since things are (amazing) coming together ahead of schedule, I'd like
>> to open things up and offer to include ads from anyone that wishes to
>> put one together.
>>
>> The guidelines are simple, just make a quarter, half or full page ad
>> in the style of those found in the Rainbow.  If you're struggling with
>> layout just send me what you have and I'll make it work.
>> Silly or serious are both fine.  The idea is to celebrate and give
>> tribute to the style of ads during the "golden age" of the CoCo.
>>
>> If your product is free (as in beer) then there is no charge at all.
>> If you would like to advertise a commercial product, you must donate a
>> prize to the contest.
>>
>> Here are some examples of advertisements we already have:
>>
>> http://cococoding.com/contest/ads/sidekick1.1.pdf
>>
>> http://cococoding.com/contest/ads/ad_gsoft_take1.pdf
>>
>> http://cococoding.com/contest/ads/ad-lwtools.pdf
>>
>> http://cococoding.com/contest/ads/Sound%20Chaser%20ad.pdf
>>
>>
>> So.. if this sounds like fun, go for it!   The plan is to have the
>> final magazine professionally printed and available at the fest.
>>
>> -Aaron
>>
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