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  1. Dreem Time Design Contest - Final Entries

    Here is my idea. I thought I would show my other ideas I didn't pursue and business cards that would go with it, I also did letterhead and envelope but you can get the idea with the card. With the identity, I am charging a graphic designers average fee based on the information. Included is...
  2. Okay - U Asked 4 It! New Assignment.

    Here is my idea. I thought I would show my other ideas I didn't pursue and business cards that would go with it, I also did letterhead and envelope but you can get the idea with the card. With the identity, I am charging a graphic designers average fee based on the information. Included is...
  3. Who Are You?

    An Environmental and Traditional Graphic Designer that happens to make signs.
  4. Illustrator Selected Vector Colors

    The layers are really good with CadTools too. You can have multiple scales on one page by the layers you specify.
  5. Quark

    Most magazines still are, in it's time Quark was a great program though I see little similarities with Publisher on it's ability to layout and output, especially a massive document like a magazine. It is actually an easy program, I still use it at times for film for silkscreen, and getting...
  6. Quark

    They can send the file to the printer as a postscript file, then open it in Distiller and convert it to .PDF as one option. Or save as .pdf, then they open it in Illustrator or Freehand and convert that to outlines then save it as an .eps or .ai. There are still quite a few graphic...
  7. Quark

    You can try .pdf depending on the version of Quark. Hopefully Quark goes away soon, many of my friends have already switched to InDesign after the last version had so many bugs.
  8. Illustrator Selected Vector Colors

    I'm stumped as to the reason, but I just did it, and it turned the color of the layer I was on.
  9. Looking and considering a new business

    Word of mouth, this takes time though, every job I had I networked, even if those friends I made are not in the business anymore, they keep in touch when they need design services or reccomend me. In turn if they have a business I reccomend them. I also have quite a few friends with thier own...
  10. Looking and considering a new business

    1. Tell the Pros and Cons of the sign business (biggest pro for me already is the thought of being my own boss) With any creative service business you can either sell your design experience, or just signs. Low-end signage (coro, stickers, banners, lower end digital printing) will satisfy your...
  11. New Key

    I believe you can trade in your key for a USB for a few bucks or it may go with the upgrade. http://www.scanvecamiable.com/products/flexi_overview.asp
  12. Thinking of Jumping Ship

    I have used GA, Flexi, Cas-mate, Arts and Letters, Signlab, Signwizard, Signpost, Magi-Sign and a few others. I have come to the conclusion that signsoftware is way overpriced and poorly supported. If you are a larger productin shop, this software makes sense-productin wise, but I think if I...
  13. Hello Sign People

    now I'm glad I didn't name myself Gherkinman......Welcome Pickle!!!!
  14. Scanning artwork question?

    Are you going to cut it? or print and cut it ? How big is the original image? Do you have a tracing program (Streamline,Trace)? Do you have an image editing program?
  15. need highway fonts

    You can find the actual highway fonts here... http://www.terminaldesign.com/retail_specimen.php?ID=1129&viewFam=1 http://www.fhwa.org/ http://www.fontbureau.com/fonts/font_frames.tpl?fontname=Interstate though the price is a little steep...this would be of course for an actual, MUTCD...
  16. is VMP going to sleep?

    He seems pretty active on other forums..though I'm not a user, you have to at least update....what's 5 minutes every other week, seems like cheap advertising to me...
  17. is VMP going to sleep?

    That might be something for them to answer, but this is the second post I have seen regarding sign software (Flexi-Sign was the other) I think it is only fitting to write directly since this kind of posting is not totally fair to the thier business.
  18. Couple of Questions on Fonts

    I am not into freebie fonts or the million font collections, most are bad knock off or themed fonts that I have no use for. Besides Letterhead Fonts, Sign DNA and Sign Fonts, there are hundreds of Type Foundries large like Fred listed to smaller like House Industries and T26. To get an...
  19. Rick

    Comment by 'Rick' in media 'Room # ID'

    Nice sign, love the materials, but if this is a real room ID sign, it should probably comply with ADA federsal and state guidlines, this sign has several issues, letter spacing, no braille, copy should be raised with eased edge, any raised element needs to be 3/8" inches away from tactiile...
  20. For all you Adobe users

    They took that link off when they updated to Creative Suite, too bad, it was all there to download for free.....
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