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Not every logo has to be some sort of visual abstraction or the product or, more likely, a visual synechdoche or a metonymy. Blue, green, and yellow don't have to be pastels. Merely because the word 'Bubble' is a part of the product doesn't mean that the result has to look like a dog bath or a...

And neither could you nor anyone else. You can unscrew a light bulb by turning the bulb or the lamp or even the room. Once unscrewed you cannot know which process was used. Why make work and aggravation for yourself when it's not necessary?

Are you being deliberately obtuse or do you really not understand? If you do as previously suggested you will always know exactly what's going to come out of your printer. There's never any need to check and/or tweak anything. Moreover, sending high quality RGB JPG files to your RIP and...

You can burden yourself with all manner of exotic tackle and make all of the hard core coloristas adrift in these waters smile, Or you can simply pick one or two, no more is necessary and even two is overkill, profiles and print a PMS chart on each of the media you use. This is the easy way and...

Words to, if not live by, at lease be aware of... Deteriorata Go placidly amid the noise and waste, And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your tires. Speak glowingly of...

Make a bitmap of the color and texture you're seeking and add a bump map, or whatever they call it in you're software, to it to give it a bit of texture. Print it and apply it to Dibond or whatever. Unless you climb right up on it, you won't be able to tell it from the real thing.

Not teaching legible handwriting certainly isn't doing the language a whole hell of a lot of good. Witness the litany of insipid abbreviations commonly used by texting aficionados. These insidious sets of initials manage to leak out into other, more civilized, forms of communication, changing...

"I can read reading but I can't read writing" ...Popeye As Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, sort of, "Things are what it makes sense to say about them'". He said this, of course, because old Ludwig was the founding father of 'Ordinary Language Analysis'. Bog knows what he would have said had he...

Realizing that most people, even those in these waters that ought to know better, wouldn't know good typography if it bit them in the butt, this is a textbook exercise in bad typography. Forget the dubious kerning advise you're received thus far and rather than move the 'T' closer to the 'A'...

Dangerous assuming that the blade's turning the wrong way trying to grab the work out of your hands and walk its way on top of it instead of pushing it down onto the table and back at you like a real table saw. Exactly the same problem when attempting to rip on a radial arm saw. Dangerous.

The exhaust pipes are a bit tacky. Especially the rather stilted, trite, and passe flames emerging from them. The type face used for 'Country' is locked in mortal combat with the face used for 'Chrome'.

Looks like it weighs more than small steam locomotive. Unless you're planning on holding barn dances on it, the heaviest thing it has to hold is itself. More often than not it's far simpler to get a heavy duty 3x8 or larger banquet table down to your local office supply emporium and screw a...

Drifting this thread like a cork in a whirlpool, some years back the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California, hotbed of liberal thought and action, held a competition to design new logos to indicate men's and women's facilities. They had proclaimed that the traditional symbols were too...

If you want to cut, buy a cutter. If you want to print, buy a printer. There exists a non-zero probability then one machine that does both doesn't do either as well as two single purpose machines. If you're laminating you have to unload the media from your printer, laminate it, then load it...

Borderless printing? Why do you think they call it 'bleed' and why do you suppose there are Xacto knives.? If you're going to print right up to the edge of the media then you're sure as hell going to print beyond it, even if it's just a taste. Inevitably leaving a disgusting mess on your...

Boring. Not worth a second look or remembering the first look. Perhaps you might try losing the orange and using some sort of electric blue[ish] immediate background that somehow instantly signifies 'network'. Or something. Anything but the yawn inducers you currently offer.

I am not trying to start a pi$$ing match , I genuinely want to know where others might stand on a couple of concepts. I was listening to someone prattle on last night and the terms 'common good' and 'greater good' were bandied about. This particular speaker seemed to draw them like six guns...

Waste vinyl? If you're not charging for what you're unrolling you're not doing it right. There is no waste vinyl, it's all paid for. Extra time to weed? As in grab a corner of the rectangle and pull? It's easier to weed this way than as a single word. Trim to the boxes? You have to cut out...

Round top and bottom letters are supposed to extend a bit beyond the base and/or top lines. If they didn't they would appear to be too small relative to flat top and bottom letters. The easy way is to do this... Set the type as a single word. Spread out the letters so that you can add a...

Basic trigonometry. The pitch of a roof is usually expressed as the ratio rise:run. Run is usually expressed as 12. A 6:12 roof would rise 6 feet for every 12 feet of run or length. The angle is the arc tangent or atan of the quotient rise/run. The relative height of the sign and any...