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  • Which van layout do you prefer best?

    Posted by Phill Fenton on September 11, 2007 at 1:20 pm

    One was designed by Alison – the other under duress (instructions given by the client) 😕

    Which one would you prefer?


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    Peter Mindham replied 16 years, 7 months ago 25 Members · 32 Replies
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  • Warren Beard

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    September 11, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    I like the bottom one 😀

  • Graeme Harrold

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 1:36 pm

    bottom one too out of the two, just not sure about the panel angles……….. 😕

  • David Rogers

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 1:39 pm

    Bottom one.

    Hate berlingos and their stupid angles….

  • Chris Lambe

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    Bottom 100%

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 1:58 pm

    Bottom layout with the top script.
    Love….Jill

  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 2:11 pm

    I prefer Alison’s one!!! 😀 😀

  • Chris Lambe

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 2:12 pm
    quote Harry Cleary:

    I prefer Alison’s one!!! 😀 😀

    What the bottom one!!! 😛 :lol1:

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 2:12 pm
    quote Harry Cleary:

    I prefer Alison’s one!!! 😀 😀

    :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

  • Lynn Normington

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    bottom one I hate Berlingos as well 😀

    Lynn

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 3:00 pm

    If I had to make a choice between the 2 it would be the bottom one, I am another one who hates Berlingos because of the body lines

  • Richard Urquhart

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    The bottom one is fab and I would just drop the right hand down as a happy medium
    rich

  • John Childs

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 3:49 pm

    Bottom one.

    But align the text on the lower panels with the black body moulding. It might look a bit strange on a drawing, but in real life, from any sort of distance, the swages tend to fade away and it’s the moulding that holds your attention. Any text that isn’t aligned with that looks cock-eyed.

    Unfortunately, that isn’t a cast iron rule, and there are exceptions, but it works in the majority of cases.

  • James Martin

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 5:26 pm

    👿 top one 👿

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 5:37 pm

    think you may be doing the btm one. which is very nice

  • Karl Williams

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    Has anyone said the bottom one? 😎

  • Jon Marshall

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 7:03 pm

    Bottom one. But add a small radius to the corners of the rectangle.

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 7:05 pm
    quote :

    Has anyone said the bottom one?

    no they are all sitting on the fence, except one 😉

  • Dave Harrison

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 7:25 pm

    bottem gets my vote aswell . . if you are printing this see what a light yellow to orange gradient / fade on the top text ( top to bottom ) looks like. If its only going to be cut vinyl forget I said that 🙂

  • Nicola McIntosh

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 9:23 pm

    bottom one too…and make the rectangle and wording & tel. no smaller, so the company name stands out more…and round the corners as jonmo mentioned earlier 😀

    nik

  • Steve Underhill

    Member
    September 11, 2007 at 10:55 pm

    The middle one.

  • Kenny Ramsey

    Member
    September 12, 2007 at 9:30 am
    quote Steve Underhill:

    The middle one.

    :lol1:

    Bottom one, but as said above, align it with the black body moulding. Berlingo’s are pretty similar to Kangoo’s aren’t they?

  • John Childs

    Member
    September 12, 2007 at 9:59 am
    quote Kenny Ramsey:

    Berlingo’s are pretty similar to Kangoo’s aren’t they?

    Nope. Give me a Kangaroo every time.

    Much more signwriter friendly. 😀


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  • David-Foster-

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    September 12, 2007 at 10:02 am
    quote Jillbeans:

    Bottom layout with the top script.
    Love….Jill

    Is that Jill recommending a script font? :lol1: :lol1: :lol1: only teasing, I know it’s not brush script :lol1:

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    September 12, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    Alison originally came up with the bottom design.

    The customer decided he didn’t like it very much and after looking at a few different fonts he described the top layout to us as how he wanted the van to be set out.

    This (the top example) is what has now been approved by the customer and we are doing this van tomorrow.

    Both Alison and I would have much preferred to do the original design (bottom layout) – but he doesn’t like it and he’s the one that’s paying us 😕

    Incidentally – we always run the lettering level with the bump strip along the side (as John has already suggested) and find this always looks fine on these vans

  • Robert Lambie

    Member
    September 12, 2007 at 7:22 pm

    I like the bottom one best phill..
    Top one looks to disjointed, if you know what I mean?
    The bottom design is tied together better.
    The panel below the text seems a bit deep to me. Ide maybe make it less deep, but that’s maybe just me mate…
    An idea might be to even make the panel white with weeded out text. Or perhaps a pinstripe line of the shape of the boxes with solid text in middle? Again just ideas…

  • David Rowland

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 8:48 am

    So this doesn’t mean that Alison does better designs then you Phill?

  • David Lowery

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 9:24 am

    Dave

  • James Martin

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 2:12 pm

    unmistakable yet looks like it could be so many other things as well.

  • Karl Williams

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    Very nice! 😉

  • David Rowland

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 7:52 pm

    why does that pic remind me of marcella?

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 7:55 pm
    quote Dave Rowland:

    why does that pic remind me of marcella?

    yeah I wish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😮 If my ass was that small I’d have it as my avatar!

  • Peter Mindham

    Member
    September 13, 2007 at 7:56 pm
    quote Dave Rowland:

    why does that pic remind me of marcella?

    Reminded me of Lambie after ten tequilas and five lagers. A bit of an arse!!! 😀 😀 😀

    Peter

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