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[Arthur Brown]

http://www.specialis...;products_id=18

Is it possible to buy enough of these to get a good price? and get them embriodered with the logo, or initials

I will ask them.

£100 for a fully fire retardant heat proof fleece. Fair price or OTT. What price a chest full of stars?

Edited by Arthur Brown, 24 August 2008 - 07:35 AM.

[crystal palace fireworks]

75.15.10 ,................Im not sure this is a good logo to have.

Firstly, People would be too afraid to ask what the cryptic numbers means, and because of feeling afraid of making a fool of themselves! ( a bit like the Hi-Fi sketch on `Not The Nine O`clock News), I think we need to come across as a friendly but accessable society to budding pyro`s in the first instance (otherwise we are going to restrict membership at the first hurdle).

I would suggest something like a simple roman candle with a gold/silver sparking plumes with four different coloured stars exploding out of tube with the UKPS letters on top!, then perhaps the website address below.

[wjames]

id take one, so long as i can pay with paypal...

thats dedication from a newbie !

i think the 75/15/10 idea is great.......

[cooperman435]

I really think people are reading into this a little too much?

I think the 75:15:10 is a good slogan its relevant and would be interesting. I doubt random people are going to be stopping you in the street and enquiring as to the meaning regardless of what your top says on it.

I cant imagine its something that will be for every day use but for meets n things anyway surely?

[Vic]

With regards to the idea I contributed earlier, I was thinking one of the advantages to it was that the design of it is very appealing and quite eye catching.

Here is a rough idea of what it could end up looking like (with some changes to the text). The font by the way is ogilvie.

Edited by fflach, 31 August 2008 - 10:21 PM.

[David]

Nice design very... dramatic!

[wjames]

awesome.

where do i sign ?

maybe the "xxxx do it" would work...

like "pyro's do it in the dark"

u know like the old "divers do it in rubber"
or climbers do it tied up..


perhaps a little childish....

[crystal palace fireworks]

I really think people are reading into this a little too much?

I think the 75:15:10 is a good slogan its relevant and would be interesting. I doubt random people are going to be stopping you in the street and enquiring as to the meaning regardless of what your top says on it.

I cant imagine its something that will be for every day use but for meets n things anyway surely?

Im not sure I would call a sequence of numbers a slogan in the true`st sense of its description,.........(although I can see it has relevance and is clever to people who understand pyrotechnics),...............if the UKPS was instead - say called 75:15:10:.co.uk, then I think you would have a good point cooperman435!

Lets not lose track, the subject of discussing the printing of teeshirts and its design for this organisation is to predominently increase membership to raise revenue for the society........(thats unless the current members want to keep it exclusive to a limited few who meet up occasionally).

In my opinion teeshirts were never designed to stop people in the street to enquire what cryptic messages mean anyway!........it should be about giving a clear message of what we are (a picture of fireworks + name of organisation `UKPS`) and where we can be found (web address) for more information in the first instance, having said that........ I don`t see why we can`t have a 75:15:10: designed tee shirt as well for those who want something asthetically pleasing to wear...........perhaps we should have a number of designs for everyone to choose from = potentially more revenue for the society anyway!

No offence!

[David]

Lets not lose track, the subject of discussing the printing of teeshirts and its design for this organisation is to predominently increase membership to raise revenue for the society........(thats unless the current members want to keep it exclusive to a limited few who meet up occasionally).

This is a good point.


Most people would know of blackpowder (even if they called it gunpowder), but only a small fraction would actually know what it IS.

As such, those numbers alone might leave people going

Edited by David, 31 August 2008 - 11:43 PM.

[dogsbody]

ok, i'll be the firstwhat does 75.15.10 mean??? i guess it is comp for black powder??

[David]

ok, i'll be the firstwhat does 75.15.10 mean??? i guess it is comp for black powder??

Type in "gunpowder" on wikipedia (dot org), gives a good explaination.

Edited by David, 01 September 2008 - 01:05 AM.

[cooperman435]

Are people seriously suggesting that wearing t-shirts bearing any slogan will encourage the general public to join our society?

I actually believe that public advertisements of this type could do as much harm as good. Not everyone who sees and advert will take the time to find out all the information relevant before having an opinion, the general public's opinion of a group dedicated to fireworks especiallya n amatur group making them themselves wouldn't be a positive one unless they knew about us in depth.

I think that being present at relevant events and functions is the only suitable way of finding new members BUT with lord knows how many thousands of forum members already and a tiny proportion of them fully paid up members I think that just finding people isn't enough, there has to be a reason to join.

Pyros do it in the dark.......... Love it

Pyros do it from at least 25 meters away..............? lol

[wjames]

pyro's celebrate the christmas on november 5th.....

[crystal palace fireworks]

Are people seriously suggesting that wearing t-shirts bearing any slogan will encourage the general public to join our society?

I actually believe that public advertisements of this type could do as much harm as good. Not everyone who sees and advert will take the time to find out all the information relevant before having an opinion, the general public's opinion of a group dedicated to fireworks especiallya n amatur group making them themselves wouldn't be a positive one unless they knew about us in depth.

I think that being present at relevant events and functions is the only suitable way of finding new members BUT with lord knows how many thousands of forum members already and a tiny proportion of them fully paid up members I think that just finding people isn't enough, there has to be a reason to join.

Pyros do it in the dark.......... Love it

Pyros do it from at least 25 meters away..............? lol

I don`t think anyone is suggesting that teeshirts alone will encourage more people to join the society, most good advertising campaigns involve a number of ways to get your message out there................this could be having a stand at a show where we could offer a range of clothing/keyrings/beermats/coasters/mousemates/hats/pens/badges etc alongside demonstrations on making fireworks using inert materials etc.

Take C.A.M.R.A. (campaign for real ale) they started by setting up stands at fetes/trade shows/steam engine events/festival of goodwood etc........do you think they never had any teeshirts or stuff to advertise or sell on there stands?.......I wonder what there membership numbers are?

There are many people out there who will take the time to join us if we get our message across about what we are about, and more importantly where we are going and what we stand for!..............there are loads of valid reasons to join the society........this could be opening a pyro school to building a museum for fireworks, to lobbying authorities for small manufacturing licenses to offering reduced admission prices to firework shows to encouraging innovation & design of pyro related stuff to showing how fireworks can work with other special effects.......its almost endless!

Maybe we should consider distancing ourselves away from this underground dodgy firework making amature status that some of the public has for us.........and become more professional and open instead!.............to give the public confidence we could insist that new members are CRB checked?

[wjames]

yeah, i can see your point.....100%

don't want to look like some random site that shows kids how to make fireworks....thats not a good image !!!!

are there any experts on rocketry here.......reason i ask is there seems to be a section....but no posts...is it something the UKPS take a active interest in????? perhaps we should invite a few experts in from a uk rocketeering site ? just a thought.