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  • design suggestions please for this gardening sign?

    Posted by Steve Broughton on 20 August 2003 at 17:45

    Just designed this, its for a Transit Pick Up, to be made from dibond and riveted to the sides and the back, sizes 8ft x 14 in sides and 6ft x 14 in rear, the phone no.s are going on the passenger doors and the rear panel, I’m fairly happy with these two designs but want you guys to have a look and have a few opinions, fire away.


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    Lee Attewell replied 22 years, 1 month ago 10 Members · 13 Replies
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  • John Singh

    Member
    20 August 2003 at 18:12

    You should be ‘fairly happy with them’ Steve, they look great!

    John

  • Henry Barker

    Member
    20 August 2003 at 19:10

    Hi Steve,

    Opened the post and the top one looks abit “busy” the lower one is easier to read.

    One thing I would change on the lower one is the outer outline, I would set that colour as a “true” shadow, leaving the black around the top of the letters, making the definition a little sharper, but still making it stand out from the background.

    Just my opinion, it looks abit fuzzy on the edges.

  • Steve Broughton

    Member
    21 August 2003 at 08:42

    Bump! 😎

  • Henry Barker

    Member
    21 August 2003 at 09:58

    I just wanted to qualify my comments from yesterday 🙂

    I opened the post and looked quickly and then minimised it, that’s abit like how you would react seeing something driveby.

    I liked what you have done in both but thought the lower one would work better on a passing vehicle, the top one maybe on a premises. It maybe the resolution of the pic or the fact I don’t have my glasses at work 🙂 but I thought the outline on Landscapers would be sharper using the darker tan outline as a drop shadow instead leaving the top part of the letter abit sharper.

    I like the work you do Steve, and you asked for comments, and as the typefaces are quite “lively” with effects, those would have been the changes I would have made. Maybe on a truck at 6-8ft long they would both be OK, I have a 21″ monitor here and walked back across the office and thought about the shadow/outline thing.

  • eddie cotter

    Member
    26 August 2003 at 21:36

    bottom one for me steve 😉

  • Martin C

    Member
    26 August 2003 at 23:12

    Top one for me but I agree the flow of the text is difficult to follow. Why not move ‘Gary Clark to the bottom and Text to the top?

  • WP_Graphics

    Member
    27 August 2003 at 09:12

    bottom one for me mate too…

    Gav

  • John Singh

    Member
    27 August 2003 at 09:22

    Oh Yeah!
    Which one? Didn’t say did I.

    Difficult!

    Bottom one in the end

  • Steve Broughton

    Member
    20 September 2003 at 10:27

    Right here’s a couple of pics of the finished job, happy customer he went off grinning like a cheshire cat, me too as I was £400 better off.


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  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    20 September 2003 at 17:34

    Excellent Steve. They look even better “in the flesh”. Did they take you long to put together?

  • Lorraine Buchan

    Member
    21 September 2003 at 16:29

    Nice work Steve,

    It a shame that the drawings don’t always give the full picture of how the colours will look together once the job is done.

  • Mike Brown

    Member
    21 September 2003 at 18:38

    very nice ‘ar Steve… 😉 especially the halo around ‘landscapers’

    more soon

    mikethesign

  • Lee Attewell

    Member
    22 September 2003 at 08:01

    Jeez Steve…That’s a beaut.

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