a pipe forum CONTEST!! design the CS tobacco tin art

[IHT]

if you think you're gonna win something.... well....



here be the deal: we are having a pipe tobacco made for us (it's made) by McClellands. we need "tin art".

lets get some creative juices flowing, maybe come up with something very cool that they can pattern it after (since we have to fax them the work - not email).

50g tin image dimensions are:
10 1/2 inches long
1 3/4 inches high

there's an area on the back where the product description goes, so if you have a tin, you'll know what i'm talking about. also an area for California, and some other stuff they always put on their tin art - that they'll do. so some small open spaces along the top/bottom/ends is encouraged.

blend name:
Silverback Series Select #1

so, go at it. see if you can take either the "angry gorilla" photo from the logo store, chop a pipe in his yapper... maybe lowland louie... it's gotta be clubstogie looking. maybe take the "CLUBSTOGIE" up at the top of the page (by lowland louie in the circle), make the "L" into a stacked billiard or something.

what you win? eh, i don't know. stool sample from my puppy? how about a tin of something from my cellar, and the pride you can have with saying, "i made that". cuz we plan to have more blends made - who knows, it may be roughly the same tin art for each. think of how much pride in your work you'll have then?

i'll try to whip one up to give you an idea... but don't wait for me, let's get crackin. this will only last until this coming weekend, we'll close it saturday night, then vote on it sunday/monday. enter as often as you want.

[croatan]

Fax it? They can't take image-ready art or anything high res? Unless the designs are kept exceedingly simple, recreating whatever someone makes may not turn out too well.

[IHT]

Originally Posted by croatan

Fax it? They can't take image-ready art or anything high res? Unless the designs are kept exceedingly simple, recreating whatever someone makes may not turn out too well.

i know, i know. mike's wife uses a Mac and it's not connected to the net... so... this is what we gotta do. i kept saying, "can't you tell me the file type, file size, images sizes?" so, she gave me dimensions in inches.

[monsoon]

They are right downtown at 17th and Baltimore ... Can we just mail or deliver art slicks ? .... surely she can scan them into her Mac ( ? ) May come across much better than faxing them.

[IHT]

i'll leave how we send it to them to the person dealing with them. if it comes to walking down and handing them some prints, that's cool. she'll still need to get online and get the graphics (i feel), or we'll end up with fuggin "Grape Ape" as lowland louie.

anyway, let's just deal with what we got, have some fun with it, etc.

[Bruce]

no gorilla please.
How about Greg's avatar? LOL!

[bazookajoe]

Originally Posted by IHT

i know, i know. mike's wife uses a Mac and it's not connected to the net... so... this is what we gotta do. i kept saying, "can't you tell me the file type, file size, images sizes?" so, she gave me dimensions in inches.

If the only problem is that her Mac isn't connected to the net it seems like the best way to get a nice graphic to her would be to just burn the images to a CD and send 'em over.

[monsoon]

Originally Posted by Bruce

no gorilla please.
How about Greg's avatar? LOL!

Wouldn't look right without red & green, blinking LEDs.

[[OT] Loki]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

If the only problem is that her Mac isn't connected to the net it seems like the best way to get a nice graphic to her would be to just burn the images to a CD and send 'em over.

this sounds like the best idea

so do we need to do the product description (i'm assuming not) or just art?

[IHT]

Originally Posted by [OT] Loki

this sounds like the best idea

so do we need to do the product description (i'm assuming not) or just art?

just tin art, but leave the spot for the product description, which has already been taken care of.

great idea. so, whoever wins, i'll (or monsoon, since he lives down the street from their shop) will burn a CD and walk it over.

now, WHAT FILE TYPE? that's why i called them in the first place, to get the file type so we could email it to her?? damn. :mad

[hollywood]

Here's my first initial idea. May be a bit big for a 50 gram tin. I think my dimensions are perfect for a 100 gram tin though. Let me know what you guys think......

[IHT]

FYI - McClellands name doesn't need to be put on it. they'll put it on the side someplace sideways where they always do on other ppls tins.
sorry dave.
but nice work.

[hollywood]

Gotcha Greg. Cool. This is a slightly better idea of how it would look front and back ......

the warning and the McClelland info is in the side boxes next to the description box on the back of the tin.






ps - sorry for the quick and lame draft.

[croatan]

Here's a fairly simple one (quick and dirty) with a blank spot for the description and whatever.

[physiognomy]

I was trying to play with an image of the CS forum pipe to include on a label, but it wasn't working quite right with the pics I could find... Could be an idea to incorporate on a label for the new blend?