[cc-community] to build the commons
Terry Hancock
hancock at anansispaceworks.com
Fri Oct 24 09:52:46 EDT 2008
Brianna Laugher wrote:
> A thought came into my head last night as I drifted off to sleep. it
> was a button... a url... a small campaign to encourage people to use
> CC licenses that further free culture.
>
> So I was imagining something like
>
> allowderivativeworks.tobuildthecommons.cc
> allowcommercialuse.tobuildthecommons.cc
> usesharealike.tobuildthecommons.cc
> (culminating in useccbysa.tobuildthecommons.cc)
So you are basically looking at a button/badge advertising campaign to
use on many websites to promote uses of "commons-friendly" licenses for
works?
To do this, you want standardized badge artwork and web pages that
expand on the point. The idea being that the person browsing, sees the
button, wants to learn more, so they click, and _voila_ they see a short
essay on the benefits of these practices?
> Anyway I would like to do this - just pretty simple pages for each,
> with image buttons/badges for people to put on their blogs etc, and
> maybe a short FAQ.
>
> I can register the domain, host it etc, but my graphic design skills
> are not much chop. I can tweak, but not design from scratch. Would
> anyone be interested in partnering up to help me out with this?
So to spell this out:
4 graphic button designs (possibly at different sizes)
4 short web pages with brief copy and links (I'm thinking of the CC
"deed" pages here, in terms of size)
The "Use By-SA" page probably should link to each of the others to
expand on each point. So it's really just 3 pieces of ad copy.
This is certainly within my scope of ability. I might need a little
inspiration for badge designs (where are you trying to go stylistically?).
For a starting point, I created "license classification icons" for the
Freedom Defined site (so far, I've received ZERO feedback on these):
http://freedomdefined.org/Logos_and_buttons#License_Classification_Icons_by_Terry_Hancock
These are all purely-graphic/international designs, intended to convey
the various common requirements of various licenses, and also the "four
freedoms".
A simple version of the buttons would be to simply combine these
graphics with the text and a bit of color.
Attachments:
A simple button graphic and page layout sketch for "Allow derivative
works". Both are meant as rough sketches, not final work (this is maybe
20 min of work), so criticisms are welcomed. The design could go in a
lot of directions from here.
Cheers,
Terry
--
Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com
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