by Aldus Marius on Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:40 am
Salvete amici (Caldus, you're a Legionary already!!),
We should sell SVR tees and similar items. Cafepress.com will make all kinds of things using your logo or other camera-ready art, and then set up a storefront for you to sell them. The quality of their work is excellent; it looks like a professional screen-printing job, not a grade-school mimeograph ('member those?). Corporations, cartoonists, and other artists that you've actually heard of use this service to make and sell logo- or character-based merchandise.
My favorite thing of theirs so far is the Tile Box: a wooden box with a 4x4-inch ceramic tile with your design on it, just the right size and depth to store your Roman coin collection or other artifacts. >({|:-)
Other things I've seen there are hats (ball caps); sweatshirts; bumper stickers; decals; coffee mugs; desk blotters; and mousepads. I think playing cards, too...anyway, lots of ideas.
We'd probably want to go slowly on having items made up; we have a rather small customer base, and I can't say how many of them would be interested. Maybe that's what we can ask in a poll. But it wouldn't hurt--and might help--to let people use our logo anywhere it might be seen; if nothing else, it'd be free advertising! And then to be able to hand them something to remember us by--a bookmark, a pen, an enamel hat-pin.
In fide,
Aldus Marius Peregrinus.