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Thursday, December 3, 2009
A lot has changed for us in the last few years. We outgrew our home-based shop, decided to go for it and moved into a new building, but still close to home. We share the building with another sign company…talk about close competition! But that’s not the...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Regarding Design
Without a doubt, one of my favorite quotations in an old sign manual is the following, from Fritz Schriber’s Complete Carriage and Wagon Painter, circa 1891: “Scrolling is an art acquired by but a few. In all the great city of New York...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Regarding Design
I try to design the shape of a sign after I develop the lettering.
In 1988, I was fortunate enough to attend a weekend-long seminar taught by the great Mike Stevens, author of Mastering Layout and teacher extraordinaire.
Mike patiently showed us...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
This job just knocks me out. Where else can you come to work and in one day put the finishing touches on a story about a truly compelling inkjet print the size of a building, interview a guy who has spent his entire life hand painting exotic pieces of art on the fenders of...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
In the Trenches
From the middle of the fall of the 7th grade ‘til the spring of the 9th, I just didn’t grow much at all. Oh, I made up for it later, but the football season of my freshman year found me still a bit of a runt. Our first string quarterback was a...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
During the seven or eight hours of labor my wife went through with our first child, she insisted that I stand by her side and not let go of her hand. I was a source of strength and encouragement to her. The second time around, she wanted me to be close by, but she...