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The other one I was going to make was an "I 'heart' Proust" design, but finding that exact "heart" is tougher than I thought!!
Thank you!If anyone wants one, it can be done. I can get it reproduced at a company, (with a darker face perhaps?) or even design a new one, but naturally, people'd have to pay if they want one :P. The cost goes down the more you order, like most things! Maybe I could shove the design on cafepress or similar?
this. this i would buy.or an "i heart proust." would also buy. cafepress seems like a great place - zazzle would be worth checking out too.
Nick~I think you are on to something. Count me in!
CafePress: http://www.cafepress.com/make/custom-...
Zazzle:http://www.zazzle.com/design_your_own...
Well, I now have a Zazzle store, and made some products for it, including the badge above (Proust, 2013) an "I <3 Proust" badge and a "Keep Calm" design for Proustitute! When Zazzle has checked all my products I will post the link here.
I like Proust's Keep Calm idea. I would go for that.
Please try these links :) USA site first:http://www.zazzle.com/gifts?ch=thepro...
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/gifts?ch=thep...
More products to be added! Requests for designs/products taken too!
I can do a badge, but it' be quite large. I will do one now.
Thank you, Valerie! Glad you are liking :)I can take requests btw. Any problems, if the items are not to your liking, please tell me, I can make adjustments. New items will be added soon.
Prou: I have tried to make a "Keep Calm" badge but I am havin' trouble. In essence, I am trying to circle a square! Learning my new design software to try and rectify.
http://www.zazzle.co.uk/keep_calm_and...Try this too, Proustitute. Sorry it took so long to make. Turning a rectangular image into a circular one at the right resolution was tough! (I am by no means a graphic deisgn expert and zazzle's not the most accurate tool) I hope the merch looks ok.
Try here? http://www.zazzle.com/keep_calm_and_r...Some products take a little longer to update. That badge is the zazzle standard size of 2.25 inches. I like a more usual 2 inches dead on, but hey, no biggie! I had sized the resolution for standard, so anything bigger may not produce quite as well.
Aww, shucks! Thanks. :D You are too, for creating this place, and having 500+ people follow the dream of reading Proust!Although: is it just me, or is the design a tiny bit squiffy? Like, not centered? I told zazz to centre it...but looks a bit off. I think it needs tweaking?
Cool. I have a really old CRT monitor. As well as making everything look quite dark, it probably leads to optical illusions such as the above. Thanks for the vote of confidence!
Nick wrote: "Try here? http://www.zazzle.com/keep_calm_and_r...I just ordered 10 buttons to give to some of my Proustian friends!
Idea...What about a button when someone finishes each book and finally the novel?
Example: I finished "Swann's Way"
That way, every reading group...forever...could buy the buttons.
Naturally, it could joyfully get out of hand...for those reading more than once, or twice or...
Wow! Awesome, Marcelita :) I ope your Proustie pals 'ppreciate the pins! I really like your idea of "attainment badges" :D Like in Scouts or Brownies! I'd proudly wear one that said "I FINISHED PROUST". Even though it might be a bit egotistical, it sure is an achievement.
I'd like to thank the person who kindly bought 10 square "Proust 2013" badges today. I hope your recipients enjoy them!
This is fantastic! Thank you so much for making these. I will proudly drink from my Proust mug, and wear my Proust pin around town.
I just found this discussion and am now ordering my Proustiana! Thank you Nick...
Nick wrote: "Cool, Kyle!"Mug and pin just arrived, and they look great! Thanks Nick.
Is there a plan to put the Proust 2013 image on a mug too?
Glad you got your stuff, Kyle! I hadn't thought to add the 2013 image to a mug. I might try black and white and shove it on a mug :)Hope you see something you like Mari, if not of course you may tell what what you have in mind!
Nick wrote: "Glad you got your stuff, Kyle! I hadn't thought to add the 2013 image to a mug. I might try black and white and shove it on a mug :)Hope you see something you like Mari, if not of course you may ..."
Nick~ I bought postcards and buttons and I may have to go back for Marcelita's word cloud tote bag! I was thinking of using some of the postcards and buttons as giveaways on my blog which I would, of course, link back to your zazzle site, if that's okay with you? (http://marimann.wordpress.com/)
Wow, Mari! that is very ok with me! Thank you for asking, and for coming up with such a nice idea.
Nick wrote: "Wow, Mari! that is very ok with me! Thank you for asking, and for coming up with such a nice idea."You're welcome and thank you for this idea and preparing these things for us!
Mari wrote: "Nick wrote: "Glad you got your stuff, Kyle! I hadn't thought to add the 2013 image to a mug. I might try black and white and shove it on a mug :)Hope you see something you like Mari, if not of co..."
When Nick visited, I packed my Marcelita bag with Bill Carter's books and carried it over to The Center for Fiction to hear Harold Augenbraum discuss Proust's poems. I love the word-cloud, as it's subtle...and constantly reminds me of the exquisite passages living "Within a Budding Grove."
HA!Very American! selling and buying merchandise of Proust and reading...???Let´s see what page what volume have you arrived at guys?Me? I am finishing any moment The Prisoner.
The merchandise maker is, you may wish to know, not American but English :pHowever, whether the idea or selling of merchandise in this way, is American, I can't say. I am however reminded of those ancient Athenians who would have gone to watch a play in festival season, then later purchased a krater or vase showing scenes from it, as reminder or as pure objet d'art, I don't know. So perhaps the acquisition of geegaws and mementoes, or souvenirs isn't related to this or that culture, but universal to we humans as sentimental memory based emoting creatures. I will leave aside any invocation of 'conspicuous consumption' badges as showing someone belongs to a club or even an elite, if only because I am guilty of wearing mine, and I like to think my doing so comes from love, a 'public display of affection' for Proust, rather than a public display of affectedness. Mr P may forgive me I hope. If anything he would know I am not a snob, merely one of those emoting creatures as governed by foibles and caprices and vanities as any of his characters are. Wear your Proust with pride! or think as you drink from his mug (sans his mug, sadly. Copyright's a beotch.) Think of it as love given material form, not so much cold pastoral as cold Proustial! :D
When I was in Cabourg, all the Proustians wanted Nick's "Proust 1913" button to wear on their lapels. I wore mine on my sleeve. Now that my November anniversary order has arrived (having already received requests), we will be seeing even more 'public displays of affection' for Proust.
And to think it was almost a year ago, last November, when Nick decided to become a publicist for Proustitute's Y. O. R. P.!
Nick wrote: "The merchandise maker is, you may wish to know, not American but English :pHowever, whether the idea or selling of merchandise in this way, is American, I can't say. I am however reminded of thos..."
I totally agree.I am the first to buy tons of merchandise wherever i go.It´s like you want to keep some of the beautidul moments you have spent.
Nick: in January I´ll be in USA, is there a link where i can buy my Proust merch. when i am there?
http://www.zazzle.com/gifts?ch=thepro...This is the US site, Patricia. Sadly, it looks like Zazzle does not have an Argentina site.
You are right too, mementoes are essential :D
I had some badges made to advertise our Y.O.R.P. (Excuse the initials, but it reminds me of Whitman's "barbaric yawp"! :D)
They were too tiny to put "GOODREADS.COM" on though. I could have had 58mm ones which the goodreads text can fit on but felt they were too big. I wear a button badge of Proust's face anyway, so these 25mm badges are just right :)
His face is a little fainter than I had planned, but I am pleased overall. I think they get the message across, enough for someone to think "?" and maybe go home and to google search "Proust 2013" which brings us right up as result 1 (at least when I search...google filters results but what it thinks you want to read!)
I will wear mine proudly!