Dimensional Sign Instal...

Designed a variation of The Water Store logo into a 20-inch by 156-inch exterior dimensional sign made of router-cut painted HDU foam mounted to half-inch MDO board.  We installed it onto a concrete wall section, first by making a template out of PVC material to the same size as...
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PuroClean Vehicle Vinyl...

Here we printed, laminated, cut and applied high-grade vinyl and perforated vinyl of the PuroClean logo and lettering to both sides and the back window of a first-generation Scion xB to corporate-required color-matching specifications. The vehicle was dropped off in the morning and...
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Residential InkJet Prin...

Here are a couple of Polynesian-style digital prints mounted to a client’s closet doors. After a few steps in Adobe Photoshop going back and forth with the client to insure the color scheme was appropriate for the color of their interior walls, we printed the 36-inch by 79-inch...
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wet application...

a designer friend has been branching out into the sign making field and had a question about covering an entire substrate with vinyl. I have found the wet application technique to be a crutch at times, and one to be outgrown in many situations… but still a technique that has...
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Here is a tip for my fe...

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My drumming hobby carve...

I set the camera up on this Jam tonight because my friend at Lidwish Soulutions has been taking good care of me while I try out his new sticks, so I will offer him any video clips he might like to use to help promote the product. They are great sticks. Anyway, I’ve avoided making...
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A good upsell is a win-...

This job was a while ago, but I wrote about it at the time, because I thought it was an interesting example of the way things work sometimes, regarding customers asking for one thing, & my efforts to discover if something else entirely would better serve them. The call came in...
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A 3 minute peek at one ...

I bought some “quiet play” drumsticks from a guy I met a few blocks who developed & patented this product. I hadn’t played drums since a Christmas party because of fears of bothering the neighbors. I set up & shot a quick video to offer my new friend to help...
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Evolution of a logo...

I am going to document the steps of this design because I feel that the process was somewhat typical, and may be of interest to some of my readers, or helpful for me to share with other potential logo design clients. This client came in while on a week long visit from Arizona to research...
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