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Van Graphics : Ruse & Son Butchers
I’ll try another way of putting the photo up.
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Nice effect with the old piccie there Steve, I have to add the phone number looks a bit of of an after thought, sort of “Oh bugger I’ve forgotten the phone number, hmm now where shall I put it ?” 🙂 if it was my job I would have moved the “Established etc.” under the picture and then put the phone number where established was ? get it? 😕
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Hi Steve,
I know, I know…. Mr. Ruse was very adamant in what he wanted, I wasn’t over sold on the yellow on brown & the phone number should be smaller… but 🙄 he is a very happy butcher 😀Steve
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😆 OK OK, customers 🙄 what do they know 😆 did you get a pound of sausages as a tip though ??
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Naa, pigs head & a pound of tripe 😕
(yeah I know… I’ve already got a pigs head 😉 😉 )
I’m afraid it’s easier just to give in to the customers wishes, how long do you keep supplying different layouts? I did a simple single colour layout which had a smaller tel. no. & a more expensive, as the customer wanted, layout which is what he went for.
While I’m here WARNING about the VW CADDY VEHICLE OUTLINE on the IMPACT CD, the side panels on the drawing don’t include the inner panels which are a lot smaller!!! 35mm all round. I know there’s a disclaimer… Blah de blah…. in the Impact Rev. 9 book, but this f####d me up big time (:) . Please take note.
Steve
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Here in romania it`s we say “in customer`s taste you can`t sh..t”.
Please make my name bigger and also my phone number must be at least 20 cm high and I have a son and … and … and put somewhere that I deal hith “something” and of coarse, by the way, this is working from 1743, but do not beat the drum about this.
That’s the way that I read the sign.
Once again, good job, but only pleased the customer.
I have lot of jobs in the time that I’m not proude of them and belive me this one is “OSCAR” in front of them.
Can anybody tell me how can I tell to my customer that his thoughts are not good for his image? -
Let’s make a forom where all of us will coment signs that we do not want to be done and grow up our customers taste!
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Yes Serban, I totally agree, what do you say Steve 😀
S 😉
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Nice van there Steve 🙂
Customers are a tad bizarre. I spent a while puzzling over a billboard style sign and came up with a half-decent cartoony style graphic which overlaid some pretty basic text. Customer walked in, said “lose the cartoons and I’ll take it!”… D’oh, could have saved an hours work! 😕
All a learning experience I guess, but I’ve already learnt, just give the customer what they want, it pays for more vinyl! 😉
Cheers, Dewi
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Steve, you bugger… of cause you’re right 🙁
I now keep looking at that damn phone number….
There’s only one solution……. gallon of petrol…… 50 mile round trip…. midnight…… torch the Caddy……. it’s the only answer 😮
maybe I’ll wait ’til the cheque clears 😕
S
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50 mile round trip on a gallon of petrol? What you going on…a moped?
By the way Steve, your new avatar……Stuart Maconie’s long lost brother?
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Hey Dewi, Thanks mate, I think Serban has a valid point, what are your views (?)
S 😎
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Big Gee, NO the petrol’s for the big Caddy bonfire, I drive a big diesel bus, I’d be interested in your views on Serbans new forum though (?)
S
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I am a bit slow….
Blimey, if I posted a picture of every job that a customer influenced into the land of cack, Rob would have to get more web space. I’m all for it. Would be quite a laugh really.
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I can’t help it if I look famous… Stuart Maconi (?)
Nigel reckonsquote :Is that new picture really you Steve ? looks like Neil Morrisey to meI can’t help it if I’ve got to the grand old age of 47 & still got a full head of head, it’s a curse 👿 wish I was bald 😥
(it’s the rock n roll life style……….. sex n drugs n rock n roll…….then more sex 😉 )
S
PS, just don’t tell the wife 😳
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I think I’d come a close second there bigG – I just can’t face telling customers that what they asked for is just a pile of steaming poo…. 😀
Still it takes a few nasty ones to make the decent ones stand out from the crowd I guess !!
Nigel
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I’m just surprised how many simple jobs I’m getting. I expected to have to labour over the design work and really put oodles of effort in, yet the customers prefer plain text or a very simple outline of a graphic! 😮
Still full of beans at actually doing signwork for a living, so I’m thoroughly enjoying everything atm, good design or bad design, as long as the customer is happy atm, I’m happy 😀
Forum-wise, humble opinion, but its concentrating very much on a negative aspect of the trade. Customers like what they like and although we can discuss it, have a laugh at it, as I’m understanding it, we all have to compromise what we term as good design to suit what the customer will pay for at the end of the day. Educating a customer is a brave concept that is virtually impossible to achieve if the customer isn’t open to the education. (<<< does that make the slightest bit of sense, or have I had too many tacos & beers???)
Cheers, Dewi
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nop.. your spot dewi.. its even worse when you have to fit it in public 😮
yesterday i fitted rasied letters for a baby shop. complete with raised babies. i complained in my own way to the lady that her signs is going to be lovely but why bother going to the expence of flat cut perspex for me to fit it to a flakey painted fascia board. she sharply said.. its perfectly fine..
done the job and away i went fast as i could.calls today. can you come and see me.. thought oh no a complaint.
back i go, she loves it so much she wantes me to take it down, put up a fascia board. (rynabond) then re-letter it. this bugs me..
the reason is because it means all the folk across the road in the other shops are thinking when i remove it.. (clowns!!! must have got it wrong)
then i go away.. come back and start again.. then they start again.. (clowns!!! look they are back to try again) 😳 😳 ok im paranoid.. so would you be when two huge hairdressers full of stunning hairdressers are watching you up your ladders for the 3rd day in a row and the signs been up & down the up again.boy i rabble jobbies.. 😮 im off to bed 😉
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🙂 Steve I like the truck, especially the sepia print, the phone # can’t be helped. The customer wanted it and he liked it…so it’s OK.
😎 I think your new pic looks quite mod! You look 37! Must be all that sex.
😉 Dewi, you are right as usual, you young whippersnapper.
😮 Rob, did it ever occur to you the lady just wanted to see you climb the ladder? She might call back weekly!
The hairdressers probably enjoyed the show too.
🙄 Did a new logo for a guy this week. He is from Mars PA & wanted an alien on his landscaping biz sign. I did one peeking out of a bush (get me a shrubbery!) He loved it. Then he made all his friends and his Mrs. stop by to check out the sign & they all hate the alien. So now I have to go back and change the sign he loved so much before he got everyone’s two cents.
👿 You know what they say about opinions, right? They are like ***holes and everybody has one! GRRRR
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quote Robert Lambie:yesterday i fitted rasied letters for a baby shop. complete with raised babies.
Were these especially stuffed babies or did you just lead a raiding party to England, steal a few and just stick em on spikes ????? 😆 😆
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