We’re getting down to the wire on the Water Booklet project and things are getting pretty exciting round here! The deadline for submissions passed
yesterday and, since my previous update, the number of submissions has almost doubled! We've now received almost 500 submissions from over 200
different contributors: great work everyone! Thank you very much!!
The Editorial Meeting begins on Monday, and we're all set to jump right in. The next couple weeks WILL be very busy, but this last week was also incredibly productive for the design of the book.
For several days last week our in-house designer extraordinaire, Daniel, met with Fabien and Gonzalo, two professional designers who work with UNDP, to create a grid and template on which to base the layout for the book. Their goal was to take the existing framework and visual style of the official
UNDP Human Development Report, and fit it into our project -- taking into account such things as: showcasing artwork and allowing more room for
illustrations and poetry, considering younger readers etc.
Attached to this e-mail you will find a mock-up of the cover of the book. Bear in mind that it is NOT final. The title, for example, WILL change and the text/artwork may be different as well. That said, headings, margins, fonts, color pallet, and style are likely to look at lot like what we have here. So, enjoy! And please feel free to let us know if you have any suggestions. Feedback is what we want and expect from you!
Also in terms of feedback, we're still on the hunt for the perfect title for the book (the one provided in the attached template was a joke: our highly creative German Webmaster combined "Water" "Booklet" into a single word: "Watlet")
Just to give you all an idea -- and to get your brain cells churning -- remember that the title of the UNDP's HDR report was "Beyond Scarcity". So,
similarly, our title needs to be catchy, clever, short, and most importantly translatable.
As you brainstorm, remember: the title does not have to have the word "water" in it, because our subtitle will include it. It will likely read something like this: "Young People's summary of the UN Human Development Report 2006 - Beyond Scarcity: Power and the global water crisis"
So, please feed us any more ideas you might have as they come to you.
Also, we need to get more LAUNCH ideas – and fun plans! - for World Water Day (March 22). We need everybody to promote and celebrate World Water Day in their communities, and we need your help coming up with creative and fun ways to get people involved. A group in Austria, for example, suggested that they could potentially throw a huge water balloon fight in their town square. What ideas can you come up with? Let us know!
Thanks again so much for everyone's help. This project is truly a great one -- and you all are the beating heart of it.
Let's keep it up!
Remember email any and all questions to Ben at water@...
All the best,
Ben
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