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digital shop signage: honda truck
The other day I got a call from the local Honda dealership. They wanted to promote the new Honda Ridgeline truck with something a little bit larger than what was available from their official Honda promotional catalogue. We suggested a wall mural. As they wanted to forgo any installation charges we ran the image on a nice wet strength blue backed paper for them to “wallpaper” on.
The wall size (curved) that we had to fit was 12’1″ x 6′ (386.3 cm x 182.8 cm). We ran five 29″ x 6′ tiles as we figured they’d be the easiest to handle when wallpapering. For those that are interested (maybe there’s one of you 🙂 ) here’s the work flow. Started with a 465 mb drum scan of the truck and ran it through Onyx Postershop for tiling. From there we hit our solvent printer and 20 minutes later the job was done. There was no lamination applied to this job.
If you’re wondering about such a large image file (465 mb) we preferred not to interpolate up as the image would be viewed from very short distances in some cases.
Anyway, here it is. My cruddy digital photo doesn’t do the image justice.
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Nice work, looks impressive
Phil
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That is blooming toptastic.
Fancy doing my living room next
Nigel
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Thanks, guys. Goes on quite well. I guess the big thing is that you can sell it to anybody that actually has some experience doing wallpapering without having to worry about the installation.
I’m really happy with it. This was the first use of an untried media for me. I always worry about the first shot with any media. Sort of like graphic performance anxiety 😉
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Excellent idea… and great job,
Now there’s a thing, wall paper, my mate puts up hand crafted/printed wall paper, which cost about £200 a roll. You could do so wicked things with thatSimon
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quote Simon C:Excellent idea… and great job,
Now there’s a thing, wall paper, my mate puts up hand crafted/printed wall paper, which cost about £200 a roll. You could do so wicked things with thatSimon
And it’s cheap. For the wet strength paper, I’m paying about $220 CDN for 63″ x 200′ … (94 of your currency for 160 cm x 61 m) so you know there’s money to made here… and I’m certainly not doing enough of this media to get any deep discounts…
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Great job mate
These guys here http://www.ags.com.au/wallart/default.htm make printable wallpaper for worlwide distribution.
Did heaps of stuff for the sydney olympics. In hard wear areas, it can be laminated with a liquid laminate for a vandal free finish
Definately a market I’d like to tap into too.
Shane
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great work rob, looks very smart mate.
i was actualy asked a while back about something like this. difference was i was gonna do it in vinyl and laminate. the reason…
it was a nursery class, when i told them how i would do it the owner then wanted her kids room done too…
basically it was sorta disney theme’d all differnt charachters scanned in and jiggled about a background. then using her kid (bedroom one only here) include her peaking out behind things and the like. the maniate was so they could use felt tipped pens or crayons as they did from time to time but they could now wipe it down as it was laminated.
anyway, hope that made sense. :lol1:thank you for taking the time to post your work 😀
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