Re: [Obin] [Fwd: Call for artwork]

From: sara podwysocka <sara_at_obin.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:19:02 +0200

wow!
sounds very interesting ;-) .
świetny pomysł !
S.
Użytkownik szczym napisał:

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>Temat: Call for artwork
>Od: agnese_ivane_at_inbox.lv
>Data: Mon, Wrzesień 19, 2005 14:23
>Do: szczym_at_obin.org
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>
>
>
> Hi!
>
>I think this is interesting for you :)
>
>Greatings from Latvia
>Agneshka
>Attention Radical Political Artists!
>CALL FOR ARTWORK
>to be published in a new book.
>
>Deadline: October 31st, 2005
>
>Reproduce and Revolt!: Radical Graphics for the 21st
>Century, Edited by Josh MacPhee & Favianna Rodriguez
>Soft Skull Press
>Reproduce and Revolt! is a graphic toolbox to be
>launched into the hands of political activists all
>over the world. The book will contain over 300 new and
>exciting high-quality black & white illustrations and
>graphics about social justice and political activism
>for activists to use on flyers, posters, t-shirts,
>brochures, stencils or any other graphic aspects of
>political campaigns. All the graphics will be bold and
>easy to reproduce, in addition to being
>royalty-free/open source/anti-copyright/creative
>commons.
>
>We are now collecting submissions of graphics,
>illustrations and art for the book, which will be
>published by Soft Skull Press in late 2006. We will
>chose for the book according quality of the image,
>reproducibility, and how well the graphic conveys the
>issues. Not everyone's submissions will be included.
>We will also be attempting to craft the book to
>represent the output of as diverse a group of artists
>as possible, across gender, race, ethnicity,
>nationality, sexuality, ability, etc. Reproduce &
>Revolt! is not intended to be a who's who of well
>known and successful political artists, this call is
>open to ALL levels of artists.
>
>Here are the specifications for the images:
>* BLACK & WHITE/Greyscale.
>* High Resolution: either original artwork on paper or
>high res digital images, minimum 600 dpi for
>greyscale, 1200 dpi for line art.
>* vector-based graphics in .ai and .eps file types are
>encouraged (but in no way mandatory!)
>* A minimum of 6 inches x 6 inches.
>* All mediums are accepted (various forms of
>printmaking, drawing, digital design, collages, etc.).
>The main factor is reproducibility.
>* Because I hope the book will be useful for years to
>come, no graphics that are specific to individual
>politicians or limited specific political campaigns
>will be selected. This means NO George Bush graphics.
>The goal of the book is not to be a "best of" of
>anti-war or anti-bush images, but a collection of
>political graphic material that will continue to be
>directly useful to political activists for years to
>come.
>
>We hope this project will help activists and
>organizers all over the world, but also help boost
>radical artists themselves by getting our work further
>out into the world. We hope to be able to pay a
>nominal fee for each piece published as well as give
>each artist access to books at 50% off the cover
>price.
>
>All material must be submitted by October 31st, 2005.
>THIS IS THE FINAL DEADLINE. There is no limit to the
>number of images you can submit. Remember BLACK &
>WHITE, NO COLOR please. All images need to be emailed
>to "reproduce [at] justseeds [dot] org" OR "favianna
>[at] favianna [dot] com" or mailed to: Josh
>MacPhee/R&R, 53 Third St. Troy, NY 12180
>
>If you have any additional questions, feel free to
>write or email josh_at_justseeds.org
>
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 16:18:01 CEST