sar bossier
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It's right next to my picture..............
:ROFLMAO: Gino - THAT button is red, and upside down :Big Laugh
It's right next to my picture..............
I've updated my avatar in support of this. +1
DUDE! For an alien, you clean up NICE!! "LIKE"
Alien? Okay, thanks I guess.
Some interesting responses, and to those who shared their name and/or photo, it's very nice to 'meet' you and put a face with a screen name, and vice versa.
For those who don't know me, I'll introduce myself as well. I'm 42, and I run an 12 person ad agency in rural NJ, where we focus on the marketing needs of small businesses. We do a lot of logos, and at this point, we've done over 600 logos and small business brands. I started the company in 1995, and was a former sign painter, and pinstriper before college. Upon graduation, I got a job as a graphic designer at an insurance company. I loved lettering (mainly truck lettering) so much, that I started the sign business 'on the side' while working full time. It got out of control, so I was able to quit.
Over the years, I stopped doing signs and pushed more logo design and web design, and collateral development. I still love doing vehicle wrap design, but sold my plotter and printer many years ago. In 2000, I published my first book on logo design 'Logo Design for Small Business' and followed it up several years later. I am currently writing my third book, with about 85% of it written. I'll be very proud when its done, as I think there's some really good stuff in it. I have been writing for SignCraft Magazine for over 10 years now I think. I'd say most of my articles have been advocating the use of better design, and for sign people to think more about ways in which to market their services more effectively to yield more dollars for their work.
In my spare time, when not obsessing about logo designs (especially retro logo design), I race stupidly expensive bicycles, and train like crazy to be fast, but I still pretty much suck at it. Here's a pic of me in a race. I think I got like 15th out of 75. Woohoo (haha).
I understand for various reasons Fred and others detailed about why they don't want their real information publicly displayed, and I certainly respect that.
As we ponder those who post work seeking feedback, and we judge their intentions to be genuine, maybe just consider how we all might collectively provide meaningful feedback, minus the other 'stuff'.
Anyway, let he who did not suck at one point early in their career cast the first stone.
your original avatar - to me, it looked like an alien/ghost with the green and black.
...it's a thread of hot guy pix in the premium section for the enjoyment of us busy signgals.SignGals unite against me?! what I do?
It's a character from a Japanese cartoon that is not well known. I used it because it reminded me of a ghost.
I don't post every day so I'm surprised you remember it.
...Also my name is Simon Stephens, I speak English and Japanese, some Spanish, and my Japanese friends call me GP or Ghost-o. Am originally from Santa Cruz, CA but now live in this "tumbleweed" town as someone else here once called it.
But even if someone is cute, and they use Brush Script or have bad kerning, etc., I'm still going to point it out.
...it's a thread of hot guy pix in the premium section for the enjoyment of us busy signgals.
I can see we need to add a few more.
But even if someone is cute, and they use Brush Script or have bad kerning, etc., I'm still going to point it out.
One must always have priorities, musn't one?
:Big Laugh