Layered Vinyl Graphics: J. Truen

[Peter Munday]

Very nice :clap3: all vinyl or is some of it printed?

[Paul Rollason]

All vinyl

using some stevo trickery

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Lee Harris]

Ace sign’s :clap2: :clap2:

Regards
Lee

[John & Dawn Roddick]

Looks great Paul – what colours were used to build up this design?

[Paul Rollason]

Hi John

First the black then the red and the blue pinstripe

Then orange for the high lights, Burgundy for the low lights and finally
white for the hotspots.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Very snazzy!
Very Stevo too.
Mmmm-mmm good.
Love….Jill

[Bill Dewison]

Thats superb Paul! 😀 You’re getting some really good results using those techniques, I like the blue pinstripe and the additional highlights, makes it stand out all the more!

Cheers, Dewi

[Andrew Bennett]

Top stuff paul.
On what surface will it be applied please (?)

[Paul Rollason]

Hi Andy

The one shown is applied to a sheet of stainless steal

But we have applied this design to the clients vehicle to banners, aluminium site boards and t-shirts.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Peter Normington]

Nice work Paul. If I can ask a question though, Did you cut all the layers at the same size, or add the high/ low lights and sparkles individually.
Reason i ask is if you cut all the same its a lot of vinyl, if you added some elements separatlely, less vinyl but more time to do, if you see what I mean,
Peter

[Paul Rollason]

I think I know what you mean.

most of the high/lowlights (the orange and burgandy) were cut in their actual positions because although this uses a bit more vinyl it does save time and as vinyl is relativly inexpensive it was more economical to do it that way in the end.

The white dots and sparkles were cut all bunched up together and put on one at a time.

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Carrie Brown]

Looks good Paul 😀

[Andy Gorman]

It was worth it matey. I know some people will say (adopts squeaky, patronising voice) “Why didn’t you print them?” but you just get a much better depth of colour by using vinyls I think. Nice one.

[John Singh]

Well there you go Paul
My first reaction was that this was printed

Excellent stuff – Great to see
There’s a truen if ever I saw one

John

[Robert Lambie]

i think you have done a brilliant job there paul… well done mate! 😛
multi-layers are never the easiest, but you have it spot on.
& thanks to stevo for his demos, i have seen some really cracking effects created based on the demos done. thumbs up paul/stevo :thumbup2:

[Paul Goodwin]

That looks cracking Paul, i thought printed first off as well,

but how do u price up to bring it in line with the printed stuff? or is it a case of with this customer price is no option as they want a great looking logo?

i normally do price per meter used but that would cost way to much for that?

[Paul Rollason]

Thanks for all your encouraging comments

Mort, I don’t think I can compete on price with a printed copy.

But, I don’t have a printer and this way i can do it all in house.

It’s all my own work (with a little help from Stevo)

The colours are more vibrant and the edges are sharper.

I enjoy doing these once in a while and I’m sure it’s going to bring in more work.

However

It remains to be seen if I still feel the same way when I can afford a Cadet!

Paul R(Mackerelbus Design)

[Shane Drew]

Paul. Just Excellent! Did you do this with clear app tape? Would have had a degree of difficulty using paper I’d think…..

I have a Roland Printer/cutter but I still opt for tape on something like this anyway. As Andy says, colour is more vibrant and will last heaps longer. Really depends on whether the customer is looking really long term, or would be happy with a printed ‘copy’.

Mort, I charge per sq metre for each colour. The highlight colours I use my off cuts for (never throw any large off ciuts out for that reason). That way the tape has already been paid for by the client that the off cut was originally from, so it is sort of like double dipping 😕

Cheers again. Thanks for sharing this paul.

[Paul Goodwin]

Thats what i do as well ( i have a huge off cut bin now ) i just wasn’t sure if that would be the right approach on something like this, to help keep in line with teh printed stuff,

but hey if they want the sign they will pay for it 🙂

[Chris Wool]

quote :

It remains to be seen if I still feel the same way when I can afford a Cadet!

no you wont cos you would have done it in photoshop

nice one

chris