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This is so true Rick. I've interviewed dozens of candidates from various universities and colleges. For some of these candidates, I really felt bad for them - that they've spent so much money on a degree, but either the university failed them, or they failed to study, or a combination of the...

Truthfully, very rarely. More likely we're told 'you're the experts - whatever you think'. When I first started, that definitely wasn't the case. But we've made it a point to educate our clients and give them valid rationale to trust our judgement. Many times, this is where sign companies can...

The same argument can be made about people buying printers and plotters and thinking that that earned them the qualifications to be a sign designer. Degree, nor equipment does a designer make. And to your point, it takes years of study, and experience. I was lettering from when I was about 14 or...

Classy looking sign!

We sometimes get requests from one of our designers who has a few pieces on Dribble, but it's never turned into a job. We've gotten more work from Pinterest, and Instagram. Pinterest is no less a mecca to have work copied from than those other sources, but it has turned into work. We just had a...

Hmm no stats for logos designed that commit copyright or trademark infringement. Probably very close to the number of logos designed. Get a logo for $99. Spend thousands on the subsequent trademark infringement claim later. Have fun! Best we can do is keep educating. I have a section in...

I may be doing the Vegas show in April. Probably not much closer.

Go the USSC Sign Show in Atlantic City in October. You can take my truck wrap design class :)

This is a great blog post about this topic. https://medium.com/@sachagreif/in-the-past-couple-years-startups-have-started-realizing-that-good-design-can-make-the-difference-2fdeb90d390a

John -can you clarify about 'who' would not accept it because it's not original art? We have several of our logos ripped off on these 'contest' sites, many of them committing blatant trademark infringement. So I'm curious who there is actually policing this. I know this because many of these...

they This looks interesting. Aren't some of these titles already scanned and available for free on library of congress site? I'm pretty sure they have some available. Theres a few Id love to see. Will there be an option to just pick an individual title?

Yeh looks much better.

Always loved this logo! Its awesome.

I found earlier on that how I presented myself and my work went a long way in establishing credibility, and being able to have clients trust me more. The unfortunate thing is that sign makers, in general, do not have a reputation from small business owners as being able to understand marketing...

Joe I love this job. Just great work as always - thanks for sharing!

There's several hundred other examples on our site if you'd like to see some other genres. Thanks!

I thought some of you might like to see a new portfolio section we added to our site which showcases some cool Before and Afters - from logos to truck wraps. Some of them are pretty radical. http://graphicd-signs.com/portfolio/before-after/ This gallery has been a really useful sales tool...

Really nice work.

To a certain degree, it's an interesting history. The early sign painters, in the 20s, 30s, are more portrayed as advertising folks who created campaigns for companies. These professionals were considered to be true creative geniuses, as the success of the companies who commissioned them were...

I saw the movie two weeks ago. Loved it. My only minor criticism however that there seemed to focus on old signpainters being either on drugs, or using alcohol. I felt it was not really a fair characterization, and it detracted from the primary message. Just didn't think it was even necessary to...