Recent content by mikethesign

Hi Ian - Hi Lor'...great to see you both! :cool1: :wink: more soon mikethesign

This piece is called 'HoneyBrook', it was made from 838 cut-vinyl pieces and twenty colours. Everything is cut-vinyl. Points of interest include the background woodgraining created by overlaying 303 pieces of mid-Green over a dark Green panel. Also, the effect of a 'planked' panel with edge...

This piece is called 'The Cross Keys', This particular sign consisted of more then 1,300 cut-vinyl pieces (a figure that was inflated by the large number of individual scales on the snakes) yet it only used ten colours - comparatively few for such a sign. Everything is cut-vinyl. Points of...

This piece is called 'The Vinyl Avenger', This sign consisted of 722 cut-vinyl pieces and twenty-four colours. Everything is cut-vinyl. Points of interest include the multi-coloured background explosion that had to be laid with absolute precision to accomodate all the other elements, the yellow...

This piece is called 'The Signmakers Art', it was made from 784 cut-vinyl pieces and seventeen colours - I think!. Everything is cut-vinyl. Points of interest include the graduated scrolls top and bottom, the 'fingerprint' wave effect in the backgound and the multi-layered 'lion rampant'. There...

This piece is called 'The Magic Lamp', it was made from 741 cut-vinyl pieces in twenty-four colours. Everything is cut-vinyl. The inspiration for the piece was the theatrical posters from the turn of the century. Points of interest include the lamps shadow that dips in and out of the...

Called 'Barclay Park', it's made from 399 cut-vinyl pieces using just seven colours. Everything is cut-vinyl, from the screw heads in the corners (and the little compression craters around them) to the grey 'primer' showing through in patches all over the sign and a lot more. The text itself has...

The Chocolate Shoppe was designed in the late 1990s but had remained un-made until now. It was compiled using Signlab software from 429 pieces in over 30 colours! The entire design was later welded in various stages so that not one awkward overlap exists throughout the entire design, with all...

cheers Fred! :peace!: tell me, how do I go about getting an album of my own - the one where I can attach imfo with the images etc?...I have loads of images sitting on my own web-site and have the links to them but not sure how to set things up this end?... mikethesign

...thanks Fred...happy to be aboard!:brittain:

Hi all! Just thought I'd register and see what all you goo d folka re doing right now...I spoke to Bob Gilliland who suggested I dropped by and I'm glad I did... My name is Mike Brown (aka 'mikethesign'), I've been signmaking for about 14 years, I live in a a cottage on the edgeof the...