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If you are talking about Bob's pinstripe and scroll designs, VectorArt has all sorts of Bob Bond stuff already vectorized and ready to cut. Check-out their website at https://www.rolanddga.com/store/megacollection/
BTW...There is a copy of VectorArt's famous Mega Collection up for grabs in this Monday's Resident Draw. Over 6,500 vector art images by Bob Bond and a bunch of other well known Letterheads. A $299. value!
For even more info, I suggest you drop by Bob and Jennifer's AutoArt Magazine Website at http://www.autoartmagazine.com/ In addition to the magazine, they offer other goodies as well.
-------------------- Barb Shortreed 144 Hill St. E. Fergus, Ontario Posts: 2377 | From: Fergus, Ont. | Registered: Sep 2000
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You could purchase a SignGold $99.00 Starter Kit, and for an additional $5.00, add the Vector Art Designer Clip Art CD (Vol 1).
We're running a deal at SignGold where, with a Starter Kit purchase, you can add Vector Art's Vol. 1,2,5 or 6 for just 5 beans.
We purchased Vector Art's entire inventory, when they released the Mega Collection, and we're the only game in town for the original CDs. Vol 1 has Bob Bond's pinstriping, and scrolls and florishes. (Not to mention work from Bob Behounek, Mr J, John Hannukaine, Russ Mowry, Tramp Warner, Acey Sterling, Crazy Jack Wills, Lisa Cowden, Mike Sheehan, Steve Hughey, Sam Cino, and many others, including yours truley! Over 1,000 images.) Print out our Vector Art Special form, and present it to your distributor when you order any Starter Kit, and you can cash in on the deal!
ND GRAPHICS also carries Vector Art's "Mega Collection"...if you don't win it in the draw (good luck!) and if you might want to buy it closer to home.
-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Hi guys, You've all mentioned the Mega Collection from Vector Art (which is truly an outstanding collection of clip art images). Vector Art also has a new cd containing 286 images entitled, Bob Bond's Mastercraft clip art. You can check out all the images on this new cd at www.bobbondart.com and click on computer clip art. Also to anyone who's interested, if you haven't been to my website lately, check it out, I've been learning how to work on the website myself and have added a bunch of new stuff. There's even a kool how-to page.
-------------------- Bob Bond's Artistry AutoArt Magazine Lee's Summit, MO BobBondArtist@hotmail.com http://www.bobbondart.com Posts: 101 | From: Lee's Summit, MO USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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I am very pleased that Vector Art has gained a good reputation with such a talented group of pros. It has been our pleasure to publish the work of guys like Bob Bond and many other very talented people as well.
We will soon release MEGA COLLECTION II which will be every bit as good as MEGA COLLECTION I. Look for it around mid August of this year.
Also, if you get a chance take a peek at a new web site:
Andrew, will Mega collection 2 be 100% new artwork for us owners of Mega Collection 1? I have a lot of duplications from buying a few of your earlier CD's before the collection was released, so just wondering if this will be free from further duplication besides the usual second condensed version of most of the striping & the additional mirror image of many designs.
Mega II will include the "MASTERCRAFT COLLECTION" of Bob Bond and "THE TRIBAL GRAPHICS" of Steve Kafka which have both been published before.
We will continue to offer both of these products as seperate products as well. The two topics above will represent about 6 to 8 % of the total collection of 5000 images, everything else is brand new and never published before.
Most of our customers were very pleased to pay for the "streched version" (to use your phrase) of some of the vehicle designs, again a matter of convience I think, and did not feel ripped off.
We discovered that the Mega I collection, much to our surprise and delight, has currently sold about 15,000 copies, and is still very popular even though almost all of it had been publshed before as individual CDs. I suspect sign folks were willing to pay for the convience of having everything in one place, and having a proper catalog to use as a sales tool.
We have several new digital products that will soon be released, including some supurb chalk artwork, ready for your large format printer, and some very high-res photos (40 megs of real RGB data) also.
for the record, I did not feel "ripped off" either... but in discussions about the collection in the past (as you probably recall) I had said that I think 3000 images of the caliber of yours is well worth the price, but if 5000 images include 1000 of the same file where someone spent 10 seconds flipping a mirror image, or 1000 that have condensed a design to shorten it... then to me.. that is 3000 images.
I mean original artwork & high quality digitizing is a time consuming process worth paying good money for... flipping an image over is a "convenience" easier (for most people who would buy your products) then typing this post.
I think I called it "filler" which you didn't like, but thats old news. Mega Collection sounds great. If it was 50% new I'd want to know up front, but 92% new... that sounds good to me.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. — Charles Mingus Posts: 6724 | From: Mendocino, CA. USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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In the past, we stretched (never condensed) some original designs (with the artists approval, suggestions, and OK), because in the real world the artist often has a concept for a design and sometimes uses it on a motor cycle tank, and sometimes uses it on the side of a truck. We wanted to provide some of our less experienced and non-artistic customers with these options, ready to go, in the catalog and in the data file as well.
The images that are flipped are also joined so that the original shape became one image, aesthetically and electronically joined in the middle, as in some of "Crazy Jack's" designs.
Now, 12-14 years later, virtually all of our customers have graphic editing software to do these things for themselves; in the past some of the DOS based programs were not capable of anything but scaling proportionally.
From a practical standpoint, how do you market such a product? Shall we say 4000 images with variations (which causes no end of confusion), or shall we say 4000 images, and deal with 100 tech calls a day asking why the catalog and CD shows 5000 images?
In any case, the new product will have neither "stretched" nor "flipped" images and will be presented in exactly the same way...big, well bound thick catalog on good paper with a coherent table of contents. We are quite sure that the new material will be warmly accepted by the industry, but we also realize that large format digital is a big part of the future and we are developing good products for that technology as well. We have a chalk board art product almost ready for release that is spectacular and really will be a license to "print money" for our customers with larger printers. Vector Art has been a big success because it makes money for our customers, and we are pleased about that.
Best wishes,
Andrew
-------------------- Andrew Holmes Vector Art Inc Pacific Grove, CA 93950
In the past, we stretched (never condensed) some original designs (with the artists approval, suggestions, and OK), because in the real world the artist often has a concept for a design and sometimes uses it on a motor cycle tank, and sometimes uses it on the side of a truck. We wanted to provide some of our less experienced and non-artistic customers with these options, ready to go, in the catalog and in the data file as well.
The images that are flipped are also joined so that the original shape became one image, aesthetically and electronically joined in the middle, as in some of "Crazy Jack's" designs.
Now, 12-14 years later, virtually all of our customers have graphic editing software to do these things for themselves; in the past some of the DOS based programs were not capable of anything but scaling proportionally.
From a practical standpoint, how do you market such a product? Shall we say 4000 images with variations (which causes no end of confusion), or shall we say 4000 images, and deal with 100 tech calls a day asking why the catalog and CD shows 5000 images?
In any case, the new product will have neither "stretched" nor "flipped" images and will be presented in exactly the same way...big, well bound thick catalog on good paper with a coherent table of contents. We are quite sure that the new material will be warmly accepted by the industry, but we also realize that large format digital is a big part of the future and we are developing good products for that technology as well. We have a chalk board art product almost ready for release that is spectacular and really will be a license to "print money" for our customers with larger printers. Vector Art has been a big success because it makes money for our customers, and we are pleased about that.
Best wishes,
Andrew
-------------------- Andrew Holmes Vector Art Inc Pacific Grove, CA 93950
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