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  1. It's one of those weeks

    I swear, I get some of the stupidest stuff at times. This week ... its half of everything that comes across my desk. Like a guy wanting a bible quote that is wrong with hermes boots and a spartan (300 movie, not historical) helmet on with it. When do I get to say, "that is stupid, stop...
  2. Distressed font ID

    For the life of me, both the fonts are eluding me. I swear I have seen both these. Any help in identifying it would be mucho appreciated!
  3. Illustrator creative cloud "open file" preview gone

    Finally upgraded to CC and I noticed the little preview window on illustrators "Open File" menu is gone. Looks like there is a windows based 'preview' bar ... but it only previews one file then doesn't work again. Anyone else notice this and/or know how to fix this? I would go to the bridge...
  4. Freestanding Extruded metal display panels

    I have a client that is looking to have display panels that are free standing for ease of mobility around their display area but also usable at shows and still have panels of frosted acrylic in them. Best I can figure out is an extruded metal frame that can be made with 2 long feet on the...
  5. Man, House Industry fonts are a rip off!

    I get it. You make a font, you want to get what it's worth ... But the shear liscensing is horrible for those fonts. This is the 3rd time this year a customer calls me up seeing if I can do work for them ... only their stuff is all most all house industries b.s. I priced out what it would...
  6. Why the frack would anyone pay $32k for a domain.

    Man! I went to register some domains since I let a few expire ... just out of curiousity, I inquired on 5 domains that are dead ... just still registered. The cheapest one someone wanted to sell was $12k ... the most expensive was $32k. ALL of them local domains (AmarilloWhatever.com or...
  7. Critique welcomed. Franky design.

    Found some time for my own work yesterday. Pulled out the wacom and got to work on a design I could reproduce a million different ways. I'm about 2 hours in right now on the art. Would love a critique on it. Keep in mind, I'm sticking to four spot colors.
  8. Actual font size setting

    I'm going to call it spoiled because of flexi ... but how do I make illustrator show the actual height of the typeface that doesn't require me to convert to curves? I've put up with this since cs2 ... can't stand it anymore. Am I just missing a setting or option that is eluding me and no one...
  9. Today I sold out my design morals for a hunk of cash.

    So ... a customer came to me today wanting some graphics done ... horrible horrible art. The kicker, he wanted it exact. So I did my normal ... "if we redesign it from scratch it will be x, if I make that one exactly the same again it will be 3 times x .." he chose the 3 times x price and...
  10. Need help on this one.

    I thought it was Antique Half Block ... but it's not. any idea on what this is would help greatly. Thanks Guys.
  11. Yay! Finally got a fun one!

    After a few long weeks of revector this, and slap some text here, and fix this 'print ready' art there ... I finally got a fun design. I convinced a group to update their 'logo' ... really it was such tiny art no matter how i re-vectored it would be different ... So I convinced them of an...
  12. Unused artwork!

    So, I was going through my files of the last year ... and I have unused artwork! For whatever reason these works were dumped in favor of something different (got to love that) so some of my illustrations are just sitting there. Thought I would share in my 'failed' art for the last year. As I...
  13. need to find 2 fonts I don't have the real name for

    The important one is the script one. Customer says it's Team Script, but for the life of me I can't find anything but a hat site and what the font is USELESS for this thing. Any help would be awesomely appreciated since I can't find it anywhere.
  14. Needing a great deal of help on this one.

    I know I've seen this one in the last couple of weeks ... just can't find it because of the quality of the source image. Any help would be awesomely appreciated.
  15. How was this done?!?

    It's a digitally printed plywood panel with a wooden french cleat on the back ... only it's smooth like it's coated but the black is printed on the front, sides and back ... I was thinking this was a pre cut, sanded and coated but the seemless side and back printing are throwing me for a loop...
  16. halftone and mesh ratios

    It's been almost a decade since I've done lots of halftone design for screenprinting ... does anyone know a resource or two or know the good range of dot size to mesh counts? Trying to not have a 35 dot count per inch on a 110 mesh sort of thing. Right now I've been running them about 20-24...
  17. Sniper school shirt design

    local sniper school is looking to get shirts done for one of their classes, this is what I came up with based on their needs. Does anyone have any critiques for the shirt design in case I'm missing something that looks off?
  18. found an old file that made me giggle like a school girl.

    First, I know ... it's all vector stock ... it was more an expression of anger that I made this (and turned it into a series of shirts) So here is the backstory, when I moved to Texas ... the dmv got my name wrong. Not only did they have my old drivers license and the form with my name correct...
  19. Need a font match on this one

    what the font is completely stumped and can't find a thing that is close. Any help would be awesomely appreciated.
  20. Duck Mascot

    Don't normally draw this stuff, as there is a veritable cornacopia of mascots out there, but a duck holding a bat ... almost devoid of existance on the web. So I pulled out the illustration pens and quickly sketched one out. I'm just under an hour total from sketch to vector.
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