-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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YEP!!!! Mis-spelled "sponser" (sponsor) on two different kart haulers for two different people.
Both called me after someone else pointed out to them that the same guy mustta done both trailers.
I got to fix both mistakes for free and was subjected to a lot of good natured ribbing.
I'll never spell "sponsor" incorrectly again!
edited to spell sponsor correctly!!!!!!!!!
[ October 11, 2004, 12:34 AM: Message edited by: Dave Grundy ]
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Forget the spelling, the art work was the worst, how could any group OK such a shabby work? $40,000 for something that looks as though the children in the lowest grades did it. Unbelieveable.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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OOps I just read back...thats not too bad... I once spelled automatic...automatamatic and it took the owner (of a transmission shop) two years to notice it was misspelled on one side of her truck and wanted a new lettering job to cover the mistake. I told her I would correct only the one word and she never came back...lol oh well...I guess thats how important it was to her.
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I once did a rush job for a christmas float. The Virginia Tech Hokies Alumni Club ordered a sign saying "Hokies Alumni". I spelled it "Hokies Alumi" I saved it under Va Tech, "Alumni" They didn't laugh. Never did another job for them either! Proofs have caught many mistakes spellcheck never dreamed about. Sometime layout works better with misspellings.
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-------------------- Michael A Latham Tee's Me Shirt & Sign 16462 Jefferson Davis Highway Colonial Heights Va. 804-835-3299 signdogopie@aol.com Posts: 379 | From: Colonial Heights, Virginia | Registered: Feb 2004
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If I did, then obviously no one else knew how to spell it either! Haven't been caught ... yet. Now, arrows on a double faced signs pointing in different directions... maybe. Sandblasted arrows? Hmm.
-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
"Art is knowing when to stop." Posts: 1578 | From: Gettysburg, PA | Registered: Jun 2003
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I once did a Scotchprint donor plaque for a "no kill" animal shelter. I emailed my Corel file to the service bureau and sent someone to pick up and install the graphic when ready. The shelter called and said many names were misspelled. It turned out the service bureau had “Automatic Spell Correction” turned on in Corel and it “corrected” any proper names that weren’t in the dictionary. I had forgotten to convert to curves before I sent the file. I haven’t forgotten since.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5084 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Did some general contractors signs many years ago. Back in the days when we used long oil enamels that took forever to dry. They leaned around the walls for almost a week and were on the construction sites for another week before someone discovered that Indana looks an awlful lot like Indiana. But it was only in 4" bold type
-------------------- Robert M. Kistler South Bend Screen Process, Inc. 2018 S. Franklin St. South Bend IN 46613 Posts: 131 | From: South Bend Indiana | Registered: Jul 2003
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Here are a few funnies from Neonville where I used to live...
You've all seen neon tubing words in block letters where 3 or 4 letters are attached and so on, but when it's time to service because a neon tubing is out, that whole section has to come out... So once we had to repair a section of tubing and for a few days a place called : KELLY FUNERAL HOME was called KELLY FUN HOME.
Also we did an installation in Ottawa for a restaurant called "Beef & Brand". My installer at the time thought it wasn't a good idea to work the extra hour to finish the job because the *girlfriend* was waiting on him and left the sign saying for the entire weekend "Beef & Bra"
The Monday morning I had a call from my furious client, my guy went over to install the last 2 letters then came back to the shop for his last paycheck !!!
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She is a real piece of work. The only apology the library should be making is to the public for shelling out that kind of cash.
-------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs www.prosigndesign.comwww.unitedwholesalesigns.com West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 Posts: 925 | From: West :Liberty, OH | Registered: May 2004
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I just read further, now she refuses to fix any of the misspellings. City council needs vote to to drag her artistic ass back and watch her fix it for FREE!
-------------------- Jerry VanHorn, Pres. Pure Sports Designs, LLC Pro Sign Design / United Wholesale Signs www.prosigndesign.comwww.unitedwholesalesigns.com West Liberty, OH 937-465-0595 866-942-3990 Since 1990 Posts: 925 | From: West :Liberty, OH | Registered: May 2004
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Yes, many times and even more often I've juxtaposed figures in phone numbers. The most mortifying occasion was when re-writing the sign below which was sited by the entrance to our local railway station. It was a warm sunny afternoon, and I was daydreaming as I was writing the lower right-hand corner of the sign. Someone yelled, "You've spelt 'HOURS' wrong". Well, it's the sort of thing people say all the time when you are working in public and I took no notice. After about five people had said the same thing I thought I'd better check. Good Grief! – "HOURES". "You don't spell HOURS like that" said another person. "I do". I replied defiantly, but my heart wasn't really in it. I feigned 'casual' till they'd disappeared round the corner, then hastily descended the ladder for turps and a rag.
The photo, though never good, has suffered greatly which is a bit of a shame as it has a real period feel. I'm afraid it was used for reference and was pocketed regularly. Both Eric Norman and my Dad had written it at various times. However, the 'S's clearly show this is Eric's work. The dates which are unreadable under compression are: 'EST. 1888' and 'From May 1st 1968' and the ribbon reads 'FREE OF TAX'. That's what I like to hear
-------------------- Arthur Vanson Bucks Signs Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England arthur@buckssigns.co.uk -------------------- Posts: 805 | From: Chesham, Bucks, England | Registered: Mar 2002
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I have done it twice! in vynull, I juxtaposed something in "Gymnasium" (on a FREE church sign) and last winter I painted TRESSPASSING on a "No Trespassing" sign. I painted a phone number wrong once, but luckily I never did the arrow thing that Gene mentioned. Love....jill
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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an it RALLY agger'vates PEACHES . . . but uther'n him, don't nobudy else give me no greef about et. . . .cuz he cain't raid gud I rekun.
I thank it is cawled "Kree-ay-tive spellin" and yew aint' 'sposed to car or no'tess. This is tawt in the publik skools an IZ tha fuchur of 'merika.
I did mispell Personnel (personell ) on a sign once when I first got in the biz.
Now I am SO adamant that the customer check and double-check spelling, I almost drive them crazy, calling and saying, "Are you sure??...regarding personal names).
I also will sometimes look a word up 2 or 3 times, before, during and after lettering....
Yes, I AM aware that behavior is border-line obsessive-compulsive . . .
Amazingly enough, it takes an extraordinary amount of editing to spell creatively
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Jill, I didn't SAY it was me that blasted an arrow in the wrong direction (but if anyone needs to know how to fix that type of mistake, I can tell you how). Sheila, I don't know about you but my fixation with spelling came from 8 years in Catholic school. I don't even know how I can still letter with these rapped swollen knuckles. (Just kidding Sister... I'll never tell.) It takes me forever to actually send a post, for all of the times I reread it and proof it - and then I STILL end up editing it).
-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
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i have only been wrong twice once i thought i was but i was not.
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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First as a Sign painter: Once I was hired by the Architects for the County Court House Restoration. They (the Architect) supplied the design and copy. It led with; PVEBLO COVNTY COVRT HOVSE. Using the Antique Roman U which was a V. In Gold Leaf on enamel! Made the front page of the local paper, and of course the sign painter's name was used. Nothing like notoriety!
And then as an Artist. Several years ago I was commissioned to design, build and hang several Steel Globes painted to resemble the earth as viewed from outer space, during different seasons. You can't believe the inspection these globes have undergone! Had there been anything wrong, I'm sure I would have had to go back, remove, repaint and re-hang at my expense. And my project only cost $47k.
The woman is not an artist but an opportunist and perhaps a con-artist, maybe! Or is "KAT" acceptable when used in an artistic sense?
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We engraved 50 plastic plaques for a local arboreteum. Each one had some common text- with 1 line different on each one. We had them proof read it and signed off before we engraved. 6 months later they said be spelt "arboretum" wrong. We redid them for 1/2 the price because the guy who ordered them was a friend.
Diane
-------------------- Balch Signs 1045 Raymond Rd Malta, NY 12020 518 885-9899 signs@balchsigns.com http://www.balchsigns.com Posts: 1695 | From: MaltaNY | Registered: Jan 2000
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"Road Runner Road Roace"??? 100 more shirts....ate them.
"Scott Baily Road Race" (shoulda had an "e" in it) 500 shirts....the entire print run...ate them. The following year, they doubled the order and the art department forgot the second "t" in Scott. Caught that one while setting up the screens.
"Equiptment"???? On the hood of a race car. The driver won the championship and no one noticed it until the last race of the season. A fan pointed it out.
OT- Don't know if this one counts, but in 1997, I had 14 cars all racing in the same division at one track. I'd made a concerned effort to mix up the letter styles of the numbers to diiferentiate them out on the track. An observant fan late in the season brought to my attention that they all had the same color numbers....chrome yellow. Is there such a thing as color typo?
Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
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I did a banner with huge lettering across the bottom that read "Americian Indian"
That ian thing in Indian was just stuck in my head I guess
I left out an e in a SAFTY vest that I did a paint mask lettering job on
I screenprinted a huge block of copy on a perfectly finished piece of Koa wood cut to exacting specs to fit into a display for the grand opening of a new nature center the next day. I misspelled "rely" as reley. Sad part was the client caught it on the proof... & I somehiow failed to fix it (there were about 2 dozen complex & completely different jobs happening for them at once)
They were going to have the woodworker make another piece since I would destroy the finish on that one trying to remove the print. I made another screen & the guy never wanted to make another piece of wood. I did a temporary vinyl repair for the grand opening & I saw it 5 years later... still one little bit o vinyl down in the corner.
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Not quite a spelling mistake but, at the weekend, I saw a boat named Behram. Navy blue Trajan with pale blue shade on white. Thought it was quite unusual to see hand lettering shaded to the right but even more so because the lower story of the 'B' was shaded left!
-------------------- Arthur Vanson Bucks Signs Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England arthur@buckssigns.co.uk -------------------- Posts: 805 | From: Chesham, Bucks, England | Registered: Mar 2002
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Man, I'll fly out there and fix the dang mural for $6 large. With a few cans of Krylon, I'll rework it and when the paint chips off the ceramic, I'll simply explain -- "I intended it to be that way!" and then demand an apology.
My most memorable misspelling was brought to my attention when I was lettering a window at a law office. This cute young secretary came across the parking lot to inform me that I had misspelled a word on her employer's sign. He was an accountant.
She told me I misspelled "Certified Public Accountants." I prayed to God it wasn't the word I thought it might be, but that's the only word I could focus on in the presence of this extremely attractive secretary. I kind of cracked my voice when I asked which word was misspelled. She said, "Public."
I'm going to tell you what, I put down my mahl stick and walked across the parking lot with her and the whole time my legs felt like rubber and you could have lit a match off my face, but as luck would have it I spelled it PUBLC. You can use your imagination on what I thought it was.
-------------------- Bill Diaz Diaz Sign Art Pontiac IL www.diazsignart.com Posts: 2107 | From: Pontiac, IL | Registered: Dec 2001
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Ray, I have the image of a bunch of kids in some foreign country wearing 1100+ misspelled t-shirts that you donated to write them off. A whole generation of kids using the word Anniversity! Look what you started.
-------------------- Gene Golden Gettysburg Signs Gettysburg PA 17325 717-334-0200 genegolden@gettysburgsigns.com
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One of the first sign jobs I ever did was to correct a billboard which said "Twice weely calf sales". It had stood that way for five years, and somewhere I have the photo of it. I'll post some pix of another one I saw the other day- the door to a video hire place said "enterance". I have another pic of a sign in town (near Bushie's place) where the second "E" is backwards (how on earth...?).
My first OWN mistake was a misspelling in reverse on an acrylic back-sprayed light box. It took the owners two months to notice, but they never turned it on so I fixed it over the outside.
Two phone number mistakes in the past two years still cheese me off- but in one case, they then changed their number to the mistakenly painted one, which was nice for me. (True)
Some years back a hand-sketched & laid out corflute sign or two missed out on an internal letter "I" as I speced from the edged into the centre, ticking out letter spaces, and the "I" is such a thin letter that the same line was ticked for both sides. Fortunately "E"s and "L"s can be condended as an escape route.
ahh...the memories!
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7014 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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printed about 300 shirts with an old world map- with BOTH "Antarctica" and "Arctic" misspelled. It was for a grade school, the teachers and administrators didn't catch it, a fourth grade student DID.
'back in the day' I sandblasted 3 mirrors for "Fellowship of Christian Athletes"- the lettering was all hand drawn and the mask was hand cut- One had "Athletes" misspelled, One had "Christian" misspelled. One out of three ain't bad.
Printed about 100 shirts, had the word "Psychology" in 3 different places on the design. Unfortunately, I spelled them exactly the way the client gave them to me, 2 out of 3 were wrong. The bad thing is, the job went thru 5 different people from start to finish, with my boss being the one to print the job. On the last shirt, he caught the typos.
Although I didn't paint it, there was a water tower in "Omaha" Arkansas, that for about a week read "OHAMA" in 48" letters, before it was repainted
-------------------- Michael Clanton Clanton Graphics/ Blackberry 19 Studio 1933 Blackberry Conway AR 72034 501-505-6794 clantongraphics@yahoo.com Posts: 1735 | From: Conway Arkansas | Registered: Oct 2001
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I can't find the article again this morning but the latest update is that they are paying her $6K and she finally "agreed" to come out and fix it. I'll search some more when I wake up.
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“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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I made a sign for a local realtor a number of years ago. I mispelled 'realty' (reality). Now, mind you 'round here it's pronounced 'real-i-ty' and it being a rush job I didn't bother to check the spelling, I just painted it 'the way it sounds.
My customer quickly brought me back to REALITY and pointed out my mistake.
I haven't made that mistake since.......and it has made me a better 'proof-reader'
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