It Takes a Village to Design a Print Ad

Brydon

I work on 20Skaters, ThreeFortyNine, Ontario Startup Train and a few others. My vanity site is brydon.me.

We’re trying out placing a small print ad in the local Bookshelf paper. Yesterday I leaned pretty heavily on our friends on twitter to help design our ad. I’m sure it’s quite obvious that we’re not print, marketing, or advertising people. Thanks for everyone who chimed in to give us feedback. You can see the list of options we played on twitpic. It was more difficult to choose than I expected, in the end the ad we went with is the one below. Now we wait for the press and the resulting stampede of coworkers…