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It's every bit as ugly as all the rest of the accoutrements of the 1950's were. During that time the cars, the houses, the clothing, the haircuts, the signs, and most everything else, were butt ugly. Why anyone would want to revisit the hideous esthetics of that time boggles the mind.

Apparently you didn't comprehend it the first time it was stated so here it is again: What comes out of the printer is the truth. Read it, know it, be it. If you want to hit some particular color or another, regardless of profiles, profiling equipment, and praying to your gods, all a...

As I have said many times, the client gets to specify what it says and I get to specify how it gets said. The client also gets to specify what particular flavor it would like; early 20th century, art deco, western, edgy, 50's retro, whatever. When I come up with something, the client gets to...

I can't make out what the initial voice-over is saying. Sounds very much like a $hit salesman with a mouthful of samples. 'Stickers' are what you get from cactus or in Cracker Jack boxes. The term is 'decal'. Stickers or decals, running out and buying some is the last thing on my mind...

A large part of this business is dealing with words. It should not be a stretch to expect those self same peers to have at least a rudimentary command of the language and a grasp of basic grammar. There are probably three organisms in the entire galaxy that care a dollop of bandicoot drool...

It's 'masterpieces', one word. And, the answer would be that certainly this is the direction one in which you should head and, at the same time, not be dismayed if you never get there. Here in this shop there is a rule "The client gets to specify what it will say, I get to specify how it will...

Convert the transparency to a bitmap in Flexi and then send it to Production Manager.

Absolutely. The way to produce a flawless gradient is to place a pair of narrow rectangles, in your case one red and one black, and use the object blend tool, available in virtually all graphics software. Use as many blend steps as necessary to seamlessly blend the two rectangles. Just keep...

Do you have anything without a cartoon character waving a wrench or making some other gesture?

It's the cutting of the backing paper that consumes blades, not where the blade holder might happen to be. Paper is incredibly abrasive. The blade cuts the paper, thus the blade, featuring a miniscule edge, is dulled almost instantly. Even with weapons grade guillotine cutters that feature a...

Perf cutting falls neatly into the category of things that you can do but probably should not do. There are few things on the planet more abrasive than paper. Cutting into, let alone through, backing paper will eat blades. The tip, which is the part that cuts the vinyl, will erode away to a...

Since this work pre-dates 1921, it's in the public domain. That copyright notice is easily removed. It most likely was placed there by some printing or poster merchant or another in a dubious attempt to protect their particular copy of the thing.

I'm using a Mutoh Value Jet. Here's why it works: The media is metallic and the inks are translucent if not transparent. That being the case, everything you print on metallic, except for black which is reasonably opaque, becomes metallic. The darker the colors, the less metallic since black...

Try printing on metallic silver. It's not reflective but it can end up looking more like gold leaf than gold leaf if you do it right. You want the lightest metallic silver you can find. I usually use 3M 180C Light Silver as well as Avery Ultra Metallic Silver for a metalflake look. Which one...

There is no standard for gradients and transparencies, every file type and software package deals with them differently. None of them do it gracefully. If it were me I'd export the entire image out of Corel as a 150ppi RGB jpg with no smoothing, no compression, no imbedded profiles, no...

Exactly. A graphic designer is a synthesist who combines and manipulates existing elements. A graphic designer seldom if ever creates a wholly original element. That being the case, there is little if any intersect between a graphic art and fine art. Most, if not all, a fine art practitioner...

Just backwards and thanks for being the straight man in this discussion. I was not attempting to prove anything, a futile endeavor anyway since no hypothesis is capable of proof, only of confirmation. Big difference.Contrariwise, an hypothesis is capable of disproof. In fact, if an hypothesis...

Every year for the last hundred years, this year is the centennial, a local village puts on a festival in the fall. Every year, except last year, they hired me to create a logo for that year's festival. Each festival having a different theme. This 'logo' is used as the central panel in posters...

It's always entertaining when the "Which is the best grommet machine?" subject come around on the big topic wheel. There are seemingly endless provincial testimonials to whatever grommet machine each author happens to own. One more time: Most all grommet machines do exactly the same thing in...

As few typefaces as possible. There are no specific numbers and anyone quoting some arbitrary number merely has yet to experience a situation where more than that number might be appropriate. Note that I said 'typefaces' and not 'fonts'. A typeface is a family of specific fonts and multiple...