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Post by Matt on Jun 21, 2017 17:33:11 GMT
As per the email you should have received this afternoon, I have spoken with Travelling Man about getting NGG members a 10% discount at the store. Travelling Man Manchester are fine with it, but need to check with Head Office.
The proposed way for this to work is for us to design our own card that can be used. The card would have a 1 year expiry on it (renewable if things keep on going well).
Is anyone good at designing that would be interested in knocking these up? Travelling Man will provide us their logo to use, we've got our own logo to use as well, then I guess just a space for name and expiry date. Ideally credit card size and laminated so it survives the travails of life in a wallet/purse. We probably only need around a dozen initially, but it would be worth making 20 to have some spares.
Thanks, Matt
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Post by steve on Jun 21, 2017 20:00:42 GMT
Good show Matt, 10% sounds good to me! Many thanks!
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Post by James on Jun 21, 2017 21:15:11 GMT
Nice one Matt, I can definitely see us making use of that card. Thanks for arranging it.
Laura says she would be up for designing the card, or at least having a crack at it. We'll have a look at it this weekend and get back to you.
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Post by Matt on Jun 22, 2017 6:22:33 GMT
Thank you, that would be helpful
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Post by zumi on Jun 22, 2017 10:05:46 GMT
My wife is an artist, I can speak to her about throwing a design down
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Post by Matt on Jun 23, 2017 6:09:31 GMT
Hi Dean, Laura has already offered to have a go at putting together a card design, but it would be really useful to have your wife available to assist if needed. However, I wonder if it would be a good time for a logo refresh - I put together the photo-based logo we use when the group was started, just to give us something to get going. But it's far from a good logo. Would you ask your wife if she would be up for putting forward some new logo ideas? Could incorporate the full words "Nexus Gaming Group" or even just the starting letters "NGG" (or a mix, as suits the design). It could include gaming elements (or not) and even cafe elements (given Nexus is our home), although not solely the latter, as that could be confusing. We generally use it on International Tabletop Day website and the little bit of promo we sometimes do with Travelling Man, but with a new card to carry it might be nice to have something a bit snappier  Let us know what she thinks and don't worry if she doesn't want to - being an artist and being an illustrator are two different things, so appreciate this may not be something she wants to approach... Thanks, Matt |
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Post by zumi on Jun 23, 2017 22:26:55 GMT
She says it's probably better if someone more involved with the group does it, since the group has someone able to do so it is probably best to let laura handle it |
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Post by Matt on Jun 24, 2017 7:34:03 GMT
Ok, no problem. Thanks for asking |
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Post by Laura on Jun 25, 2017 18:23:53 GMT
Well I'm no artist, so I certainly wouldn't be offended if someone else wanted to do a design. All of my previous graphic design projects have been purely hobby.
That said I will have a go at putting something together this week.
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Post by Laura on Jun 27, 2017 18:28:35 GMT
Early draft of a leaflet:  James did the logo, the hexes were me. Still need to smooth out the logo and then add some detail, but i'm pretty proud of it so far. What do you think? If you have any ideas I'm open to making changes. Like if you have any suggestions for better images. James isn't sure about the logo, and might try out some other things. Again, if you have any ideas please suggest. |
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Post by Matt on Jun 27, 2017 19:24:25 GMT
I like it, thank you. Please feel free to experiment with different logos though - I'm not precious about the one we have (unless anyone else is...) and I think there could be much better versions (although you've done a great job of turning the photo into a design! As a leaflet, it would be useful to put some extra info in the white space, such as when and where we meet and the forum website. But other than that I like it. As a discount card, it would be interesting to see it in landscape format with the TM logo included somewhere. The blurb (name, expiry, etc) could be on the reverse. Great going |
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Post by Laura on Jun 28, 2017 19:54:02 GMT
Yeah, me and James aren't sure about the logo either, but we haven't thought of any ideas for new designs yet. I'll keep pondering it. Here are my updates: Card:  Leaflet:  James has a good idea for the other side of the card, for all the information and stuff, but hasn't had a chance to put it together yet. |
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Post by Laura on Jul 3, 2017 20:32:40 GMT
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Post by Matt on Jul 3, 2017 22:20:47 GMT
Looks good Just need the ok from TM now - will check again on Wednesday |
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Post by Laura on Jul 13, 2017 19:45:18 GMT
Latest updates: Landscape Card:  Portrait Card:  Leaflet:  |
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