Posted in Art, Signs, Work on Oct 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
Remember that big project I didn’t want to talk about in my last post? No? Well here it is anyway:
Printing the Panels (10ft. x 52in.)
Starting it off
Halfway Done Installing
Me & Mr. Sunday Preping the Wall
Trimming & Adding the Final Details
Finito!
Finished prduct measures 10 Feet tall by 30 Feet wide. This is just the male [...]
Posted in General, Signs on Oct 5th, 2008 No Comments »
I knew it was only going to get worse before it got better.
So here’s a little back story about this past week:
Monday I woke up at 3:30 am to drive to the airport in Huston to make our 6:00 flight back to Miami. I managed to pass out for about an hour and a half [...]
Posted in Signs, Work on Sep 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
Choice One Smart Car (Red) - 4, originally uploaded by Mango and Peaches.
Applied some vinyl graphics to my first Smart Car this morning. Boy these little things are tough to work around. So many small curves and cuts, not to mention the fact that the car is like 80% plastic so the magnets I use [...]
Posted in Signs, Work on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
At least that’s what I’ve been told.
So last week I installed my very first vehicle wrap. Technically I have wrapped some cars before, but it’s only been sections and all printed on one piece. This was the first time I actually had to design taking the curves of the vehicle in mind and stitch the [...]
Posted in Chris Likes, Design, Funny, Signs, Videos on Jul 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
A big corporation designed the stop sign? Sadly enough, this is a pretty good example (albeit exaggerated) of how I work with most clients and customers during the design phase. -_-
Posted in Signs on Jul 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Shit happens. Now I need to figure out a way to prevent this from happening again.
If anyone was wondering here are some details:
It’s frosted vinyl on a 4′ x 8′ piece of glass that looks into a conference room.
The company log is cut out of the vinyl so you can see through the glass in [...]
Posted in Art, Personal Projects, Signs on Jul 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve had these hanging in my room for a little while now, but I thought I’d post them either way. All three are machine cut Premium vinyl applied onto 3mm PVC. I designed all three inside Illustrator CS3 and made contour cut adjustments in FlexiExpert 8. The most challenging one (if it isn’t obvious) was [...]
Posted in Signs, Tutorial on Apr 8th, 2008 4 Comments »
This is the last part of the Sign Making Tutorial. This part covers the application of vinyl graphics onto the substrate. The following process is the most basic and straight forward way to do an application. It is also the key of ANY vinyl application (to a certain extent).
Phase 6: Application
So now I have a [...]
Posted in Signs, Tutorial on Apr 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
Welcome back. I figure that if you’re reading this right now and you actually followed part 1 all the way through that you must be one of the following:
Extremely bored with nothing better to do (or too lazy to click off the page).
Actually interested in seeing how this process develops.
Either way I’m going to jump [...]
Posted in Signs, Tutorial on Apr 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’m a Sign Maker. Well, first and foremost I’m a graphic designer, but sign making is a big part of my job. I work for the largest sign making company in the world: Sign*A*Rama. All of our signs are custom made and about 85% of them are made by yours truly.
When I was first hired [...]
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