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Just criticizing the design, not the installation, but this could have been executed a lot better. All of the slogans are done in the wrong type style. I don't think any of them match the historical advertising. The first line is in chronological order, while the 2nd and 3rd are reversed...

Hire a logo designer. Quit wasting your own valuable time trying to do something you have no idea how to do. A halfway decent logo is a minimum requirement for almost any business that wants to present a professional image to their clients.

Wow, I've been doing a terrible job of explaining myself today. All the "rules" I've referenced in regards to how the dollar sign is supposed to look are in regards to standard serif and sans-serif fonts. Of course you can render the dollar sign however you want when you're using display fonts...

I'm not a premium member, but the recent threads section (Home button) often shows me threads from the premium forums as well as the reported post forum. Is that intentional? I can't open the threads, they just show in the list.

Also, I just realized you might have been questioning the other part of my statement, that the dollar sign isn't derived from the letter "S". The two symbols "S$" have different lines of evolution, which explains why if you subtract the vertical line from a dollar sign in many fonts, it still...

Fonts. Fonts told me. Go to http://wordmark.it and type "S$" to see for yourself. We do need more of these threads though, I agree. I love typography and I certainly have more to learn myself.

I stand corrected. I should have elaborated - a dollar sign certainly wasn't derived from the letter "S". I was just referring to the size; I meant that a dollar sign is typically more similar in size to a capital S. Sometimes a bit smaller, but not reduced and centred vertically like in Pat's...

Considering the name they're using for their signs, it sounds like Heritage Destination probably gets their prints done through Fossil Industries. http://fossilgraphics.com/

Also, to answer your second question, a dollar sign is supposed to be a capital S with a line through it. In this case, that's what looks best in a block of body text. If you're using the dollar sign in a headline or display text, then the appropriate thing to do would usually be to use...

This isn't strict by any means, but the general rule of thumb in typography would be that the mixed-height numerals are to be used in body text, while the capital-height numerals are to be used in headlines and display text. The reasoning is that the mixed-height numerals are essentially...

These are the kind if issues that begin to drive your paying customers to the competition (which includes piracy). I remember years ago when we used to use Flexi, it seemed like I was calling in every week to get tech support to help me reinstall drivers on the dongle. Now we use Illustrator and...

Does it have a paper liner? This is just the first crazy idea that popped into my head, but the paper liner is going to hold its distorted shape as long as the vinyl is attached to it, right? Maybe you could detach the distorted half from its liner and then lay it back onto the liner with the...

I'm feeling a bit ignorant since I have the same printer, but what exactly is the purpose of this?

I don't know about the material or where to get it, but if you don't want to bother doing it yourself, Georgia Printco does webbing with what they call a "seatbelt" material.

When customers want a more durable print, give them the option of brushing on liquid laminate to protect the print. It makes the colours pop too - customers love colours that "pop".

A printer sitting idle with 3rd party ink in the lines is not what I was referring to, though that could be an issue of its own. What I meant was, a low volume shop that doesn't run their printer constantly is probably not going to justify the cost of colour profiling their own system. They're...

Why does everyone have this perception that customers will even care whether you are doing something in-house or subcontracting it? Every business has vendors/suppliers for one thing or another.

I think a moderately high volume of printing and a colour calibrated workflow are pre-requisite to 3rd party inks. If you're a small shop and you're running your printer on stock ICC profiles, 3rd party inks will more than likely turn into a nightmare.

I give up...

I would contact your previous employers for permission to use the photos. If you're unsure how well that would go over and you'd rather just risk it and use some of the photos, I would keep it limited to only jobs that you had a substantial involvement with. Present it as a portfolio of your...