hints and tipps and thanks
Well, finally I could send the three big boxes off yesterday late afternoon: 77 kg of boxed perfumes and samples and teasers driving south right now.
It was an ultra busy day and today, …actually, it is going to be busy too and I look very much forward to most of the planned tasks of today: Mixing more roses, pouring and labelling and working on …secret missions!
On Thursday I started exchanging a few mails with Linda (thank you!) who did not like my not careing about bottles. And in her second mail she proposed that I could try to make a visual like to my packaging in the leaflet version 2. Now that stroke me as an excellent idea.
And I loved the Hotlanta Linda text “journeys with flowers” and actually, I do not care too much about the fact that there is no flower on page 1. Journes with flowers is great. And I thank you, Hotlanta Linda, as well as all commenters here and there in the previous post.
Thus, this morning, I added the two lines together: Hotlanta Linda and Linda (yep, another Linda) and … well, actually: I really like it. The picture below shows a raw print, in actual size, held together with transparent tape. Now I just wonder whether it should be journeys WITH flowers or journeys AND flowers…
I wish you all a lovely weekend and thank you so much for your ideas. Actually, this is just great.
Picture:
Front and back page of the leaflet, actual size is 20x 10cm per page.
Picture:
A detail from Photoshop directly. The black thin line is just a layout help line, showing where the middle is.
July 4th, 2009 at 10:28 am
This is great Andy and I like WITH better because in each of your fragrances there are flowers present, be it a bit hidden or more strongly present.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Marianne.
July 4th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Journeys WITH flowers, journeys AND flowers… hmm… I’d say - Journeys IN flowers :o)
Lovely detail when the printed ribbon coms in front AND in back page - looks great.
I don’t know about your e-mail details with Linda, but I do agree with her starting the discussion about your not caring bottles :o) Thanks Linda!
Have a lovely weekend, Andy and have fun in pouring and labelling etc…
July 4th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Good things come in the smallest of packages, yes? The ribbon photo on the flyer is like the iceing on a cake - pretty and sweet, or should that be PRETTY SWEET!!! Lookin` GOOODDDD!!! Go w/ the flow! :-)
July 4th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Dear AromaX,
I thank you, although I do not really agree with “in”, rather “and” and maybe “journeys” not capitalized, to link it to “discover”….
I have already finished the mixing and can heartfully start pouring
have a wonderful and sunny weekend!
Dear Marianne
I thank you! While pouring I will now think about whether with or and is better.
I wish you a lovely weekend, too.
July 4th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
May your 77 kg of perfumed products NOT fall into the EU`s and custom`s `Black Hole` - protection and deliverance are direly needed here!! :-)
July 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Indeed Hotlanta Linda
this time it would be hard…. but the pile of papers that went with the papers helps! Enjoy your 4th of July!
July 4th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I see, Andy - you’d like the link between discover and the front page. Funny and interesting. I’d make Discover capital than and let the front page sentence be written without capitals - this can be a provocative element (because it’s not exactly according the rules :)
Well to me personally, I have more affinity with something like “floral journeys or fragrant journeys” than “journeys and/with/in flowers”. I guess it should match the language. Interesting that in German I might choose for “journeys with flowers”, but in English I prefer “floral journeys”. Funny how it works. Will it be printed in Eglish or Italian?
I wish you finish the day with nicely set raws of fragrant bottles packed :o)
July 4th, 2009 at 4:28 pm
Dear AromaX
I make it now for Italy, to be translated by the Italian importer of my perfumes, Guido. But, as I have it ready basically, I think I will later also print it in English. Maybe.
And I agree very much with the impressions in different languages. maybe it is because English is not my mother tongue, hence everything seems to work there ;-)
July 4th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Hi Andy,
I like what you\’ve come up with, suits the style of the packeging really nicely.
I don\’t have many thoughts on the words, but adding a personal preverence again on the look; I would not picture the ribbon, but tie an actual ribbon around the fold of the flyer with the bow on the outside. Maybe even scent the ribbons a little.
And; secret missions???? you are a tease!
July 4th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Uiuiuoi…. LilaScents. I will print a thousand copies. the price for the ribbons would be ok, bit putting them around a few hundred leaflets would kill me ;-)
oh yes….. very secret mission….
July 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
Hmmm, send them over here first, I’ll help you out :) with the ribbons…
ah, so now it’s even gotten to VERY secret….. an ‘if you tel me, you’ll have to kill me kind of thing’, huh ?
July 4th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
nono…no kill you. never. not for perfumes.
Trust me (talking ribbons again): I know how it is to make hundreds of knots and arranging these ribbons. It looses the fun after 100 or s…at least for me. :-)
July 4th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Guten abend, Andy :) Yes! I love it! The ribbon touch is great, and I would definitely go with “Journeys with flowers” because they do lead you on a journey.
It’s a lovely leaflet and I see no reason why you couldn’t get more mileage out of it by using it for more than the Italian venture coming up soon.
The suspense is killing me; when do we find out about this secret mission? ;)
And Happy Independence Day to all the fellow Americans on here!
July 4th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
OK, may my absolutely favourite song for the Fourth make everyone grin…See, I get into my blue-eyed soul music-mode (Hall & Oats, anyone?), and then find the godfather of soul, James Brown`s song `Living in America`!! Everyone got your groove on??? :-) :-) (this track will definitely help you burn off the BBQ !!) Caswell-Massey`s scents would go great w/ the day,but my bottle of long-discontinued Southern Gardenia (original) is iffy!
July 4th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Hey, is the bush in the flyer`s front cover Boswellia??
July 4th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Darn, I would have agreed with it, now you leave no opening as to how one can make you spill a little info on the secret mission…
Let’s see if I can come up with a question;
What color do you assosiate it with?
Or what shape of bottle? (hihi sorry, couldn’t let that one go to waist, now could I?)
Or what time of the year? what country?
Is it going to be luminous or more on a dark side?
Ooh, I know, it’s going to be more of a masculine isn’t it? isn’t it!!
Unless… maybe, it is a mission outside of ‘Tauer Perfumes’…….?????????????????
Oké, so I came up with more than one question, feel free to answer all of them. :)
About ribbons; I know about extended monotone jobs like that becomming a bore; having done lots of big mailings and for instance the invitations for my brothers wedding were in the style of racecar passagecards (does this word make sense?), with ribbons. But I like to do them anyway when it serves the outcome. This not being a comment that you should do it anyway in my opinion, I wouldn’t dare to say so, for I notice how bizzy you are with al the things your juggling time for already.
But again I couldn’t restrain myself from mentioning my thoughts on the look.
July 5th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Hi Andy, EXCELLENT suggestions by Hotlanta Linda and Linda. I love the ribbon—it really ties everything together (no pun intended)!!! And in English if you are choosing between “journeys with flowers” or “journeys and flowers” they are two totally different ideas. I prefer journeys with flowers (as if you are going on a journey accompanied by–or even inspired by–flowers) instead of journeys and flowers (where it sounds like 1) you have a journey and 2) you have flowers–they aren’t necessarily as intertwined). And looking at the pamphlet again I see your point about it not mattering much that there are no flower on the first page. You have the desert which implies a journey and then when you turn the page you see that gorgeous rose—very, very nice. Hope you had a nice week-end
July 5th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
Hey Andy. It looks pretty good, I think. And no, I wouldn’t tie 1000 ribbons if I were you, not for something like this. All the reader would do is take them off…
My wife was a greeter in church today, and was wearing Une Rose Chypree. She says she got several comments that she was smelling wonderful! Alas, I’m thousands of miles away at a mathematics conference, so I didn’t get to smell her…
July 6th, 2009 at 6:20 am
Dear Fernando
Thank you!
I agree with you on the ribbon around the leaflet. This would be nice for something else, like if the leaflet would contain a sample, too. then a roll-on leflet with a ribbon would make sense. But here… I do not think so. I am glad that your wife got compliments! She for sure deserved the compliments.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Dear Jen
thank you for going into the details of “with” and “and”l. I feel Journeys with flowers is better indeed. I wonder how to translate this into Italian. But I am sure , Guido will find a wonderful expression that says exactly this. My weekend, by the way, was wonderful, but /and filled with work. I wish you a lovely week.
July 6th, 2009 at 6:29 am
dear LilaScents
I couldn’t but smile on your nice try to get hints on the secret mission(s). Well, no way…
But in a few months time , I guess I have news for you!
July 6th, 2009 at 6:35 am
good morning, Hotlanta-Linda
Now that would be nice, but unfortunately, this tree is no Boswellia. Actually, I would say it is some sort of Acacia. The picture is just allegorically. Let us imagine it was Boswellia….
July 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Just one more mention on the ribbons to explain my thought about it; my idea was to tie it just ones around the fold, so it holds the pages together, if there were more. Not tiying the flyer shut.
I really like that I was able to help you out with the idea, it came out really nice!
News just in a few months ohwell, a good oppertunity to train my patience… :)