Sign Designing - Quote of the day...

[Texas_Signmaker]

Sometimes I just am bored with a thread so I say to myself I'm not going to waste time reading it anymore...sometimes I check back throughout the day and I see the same lame thread keep popping back up to the top of the list and I finally click back on it to see WTF are the still going on and on about that lame topic..or are they fighting and arguing about something juicy that I can engage in.

Nope....This is still a lame thread.

 

[equippaint]

Sometimes I just am bored with a thread so I say to myself I'm not going to waste time reading it anymore...sometimes I check back throughout the day and I see the same lame thread keep popping back up to the top of the list and I finally click back on it to see WTF are the still going on and on about that lame topic..or are they fighting and arguing about something juicy that I can engage in.

Nope....This is still a lame thread.

You should design your own less lame thread then.

 

[GAC05]

Can we still use 'lame' these days? Seems so disablist.

 

[Roto]

or if your a franchise...STICKER JOCKEY

Node Jocky!

 

[Johnny Best]

How the story played out in Rick's mind: He drives up in his Range Rover Evoque, walks up in his Georgio Armani suit with ostrich skin cowboy boots, diamond cluster pinky ring and the family friend leans into Rick's mother's ear and says with a whisper "ay, chihuahua! what does Ricky do for a living?"

 

[Rick]

How the story played out in Rick's mind: He drives up in his Range Rover Evoque, walks up in his Georgio Armani suit with ostrich skin cowboy boots, diamond cluster pinky ring and the family friend leans into Rick's mother's ear and says with a whisper "ay, chihuahua! what does Ricky do for a living?"

It would be a Cadillac CTS-V Hennesey modified Wagon, Kiton suit and Ferragamo kicks while flashing a Patek Phillipe... wouldn't be caught dead in an English SUV and cowboy boots....

 

[signbrad]

This thread started well. I was expecting a series of posts with pithy quotes from noteworthy designers. I find quotes like that interesting and thought-provoking.

 

[Gino]

I have a pith helmet...... does that count ??

 

[signbrad]

I have a pith helmet...... does that count ??

No. But have another drink.

PITH
essence, heart, substance, nub, core, crux, gist, meat, kernel, the nitty-gritty.
.................

In an effort to prevent this thread from being a string of only one noteworthy quote—which is not a string at all—I am posting a second pithy quote:

“I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.”

I'm sure many of you know who said this.
I believe that the best sign work is born of these two things, as well.

 

[bob]

No. But have another drink.

PITH
essence, heart, substance, nub, core, crux, gist, meat, kernel, the nitty-gritty.
.................

In an effort to prevent this thread from being a string of only one noteworthy quote—which is not a string at all—I am posting a second pithy quote:

“I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.”

I'm sure many of you know who said this.
I believe that the best sign work is born of these two things, as well.

Whoever uttered this is an idiot and no doubt a legend in its own mind. First there is function from which follows form which is dictated solely by function. All else is affected nonsense. All else.

This is a noteworthy quote not because it displays any sort of pithy** wisdom but rather because of its inanity.

**Pith is all of the things you've noted as well as then name of a variety of head gear.

 

[Johnny Best]

The great Benny Hill was asked why he wore a pith helmet in the jungle and he replied because it protected him from the monkeys pithing down on him from the trees.

 

[Gino]

Wow, that's all, wow.

I think that's why I wear mine, but not from monkeys, but all the birds around my place, mostly in the trees. And to keep the bats outta my hair at night. When they get tangled up, it's tough getting them out.

Not to go off track, but I always liked Benny Hill....... with or without his pith helmet.

 

[signbrad]

The great Benny Hill was asked why he wore a pith helmet in the jungle and he replied because it protected him from the monkeys pithing down on him from the trees.

Here I was trying to be so serious, Johnny!
Now I'm pithed.

Good thing I walk to work. It's 25 degrees outside, but feels like 16. I'll cool off quickly.
It's a cold day in the neighborhood.

Brad

 

[Johnny Best]

"A sign designer is a person in the neighborhood, in the neighborhood, won't you be my neighbor?"

 

[Big Rice Field]

Designers

 

[Bradley Signs]

Design, strange word. Usually when you put "de" in front of a word it means to remove or reduction. Like in Photoshop they have a dehaze tool. Or, the word destroy or debunk. So adding de in front of sign would leave you with nothing on the sign. Now if I spent hours designing a sign and ended up with nothing, now that would make me depressed.

I think I will just call myself De Sign Maker.... "So, who made your sign?" someone will say, and someone else will say "DE-Sign Man did"