Nuclear is Our Future Pro-nuclear activist group

I’m working on the improvements as outlined here; I’ll get a few item previews up later tonight.

Update: here they are:
1. Why Oppose Nuclear Power?: a rather angry and bitter shirt design formatted as a poll.
2. This is Your Sky on Sulfur Dioxide: for yellow items.
3. Pro-Nuclear Environmentalist: redone in a better font with higher resolution. I’m going to work on cropping it for a bumper sticker and on a lighter design for dark shirts, as well as a transparent background for the reader-requested blue design.
4. Three license plate frames: one with “PROUD SUPPORTER” on top and “NUCLEAR POWER” on the bottom, one with “NUKE ASTHMA” on top and “www.niof.org” on the bottom, and one with “www.niof.org” on the top and “PROUD SUPPORTER OF NUCLEAR POWER” on the bottom.
5. This is Your Planet on Coal: for dark items (black color option); however, I’ll need to replace the black background with a transparent one for it to work on some items.
6. My Other Car is a Nuclear Submarine: a bumper sticker.
7. Old Fossils: a picture of Rosalie Bertell (which will probably end up being a picture of Jackson Browne) and a coal plant. This will be on a poster and perhaps some clothing if it seems to make sense. Any thoughts on improving this design are much appreciated.
8. Nukes: What Are They Good For?: a very long list, subject to the caveat in #5.
9. Nuke Asthma: a general use design promoting the clean-air aspect of nuclear energy.
10. Nu-clear: a pun and another general use design about clean air
11. Nu-clean: a pun derived from a typo I made a few days ago; yet another general use design.
12. Lovins’ quote about access to energy: more suited to clothing (except the ones that allow only pocket-sized images) and posters as far as I can tell, although I’d be open to any suggestions.
13. Got Nukes? We Do: perhaps a more memorable way to say “nuclear power makes a significant contribution to the world’s energy needs.”
14. Go Nuclear..For Me: an old design, reformatted and at higher resolution, intended for baby, toddler, and children’s clothing. I’ll be working on a design for dark items.
15. Go Nuclear: the old mainstay at higher resolution. I’ll be cropping it and working on the background a bit to make it work for more items.
16. Burning Coal is like Playing Russian Roulette with a Semiautomatic Pistol: a design for dark (and perhaps red) items; the caveat in #5 also applies here.
17. Paul Ehrlich’s quote on access to energy: to be used in the same ways as the Lovins quote.
18. Nuclear Energy, The Clean Green Power Machine: shamelessly lifted from the Grand Gulf rally (I’m not aware of who came up with it), and a general use design although it might need some cropping for things like bumper stickers.
19. Biomass Pollutes: another general use design.
20. Asthmatics for Coal: a parody of “mutants for nuclear” (note the relative abundance of mutants vs. asthmatics), a dark-item design subject to the caveat in #5.
21. Ask Me About Whole Ecology: for use on light clothing; I’m working on one for dark clothing. The design for blue is delayed until I can change the background to transparent.
22. Ask Me About Nuclear Power: same as above.
23. Another Radioactive Environmentalist: taking pride in Jerry Brown’s 1992 debate insult; it will appear first on the Green T-Shirt, and later on blue ones.
24. No Cokes: first, the text “no cokes” in several different colors and fonts (unfortunately, I don’t have previews of these ready), second, Jeremy Whitlock’s picture (many thanks to Dr. Whitlock for emailing me a high-resolution version), and third a combination of the two with the text on top at 50% transparency (I also obviously don’t have a preview of this). Many thanks also to Ruth Sponsler for the slogan!

The Go Nuclear Top 10 is absent so far; I’m working on a better one than the current version but that’s on the back burner (to come after the revised dark-item designs).

It will take me all week to get these items up; note as well the lack of dark or bold color clothing, which require transparent backgrounds instead of white ones. I used a print-to-pdf and a pdf-to-image converter (which does not support transparent backgrounds) as a workaround for a problem with getting the necessary fonts and Photoshop in the same place at the same time, and fortunately, the dark items by and large do not use the problem font. It will take longer to get the dark items online, and I will post further as the week progresses with the items that are launched on each particular day. When these items are all complete and the full store is launched, I will post about upcoming designs for the dark items (perhaps a blue shirt: this is your low-elevation land on global warming?). So this is a bit of a two- or three-phase process, but I believe the store will be better when everything’s finished. And as always, it’s completely nonprofit.

I’d like to hear any feedback anyone has to offer.

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Posted on March 31, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |