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I apologize to Arthur for my rampant Hellvetica bashing. That said, I am issuing a design challenge to anyone who feels up to the task.
Let's all try our hand at designing a sign ONLY in Helvetica (any weight, or mixed, as long as it is ONLY Helvetica)
The sign is for the entry to a development. The ONLY copy is COOPERSTOWN ESTATES. This can be anything from condos to carriage homes to mobile homes. It can be any size, shape, material, or color. Feel free to throw on some clip art or cheap tricks.
If you can post pix here, size em at 72 dpi and no bigger than 600 pixels wide, or just email em to me (same size) by clicking the button on the top of this thread and I'll post em here for you.
Up for it? C'mon! Love....Jill
[ December 08, 2005, 07:58 AM: Message edited by: Jill Marie Welsh ]
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Jill, no need for apologies, that wasn't a dig at you or anyone else here. I just wanted to make the point that we all knock Helvetica when it should be the inappropriate use of it we rail against.
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hey all.... here's my contribution. Looks like a nice place to live, I wonder if they have any vacancies? Posts: 183 | From: Cape Cod MA | Registered: Jan 2005
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Cooperstown, N.Y. is only four miles from me, and if I ever go back to doing signs, instead of just trucks and boats, I might have to swipe some of these ideas.
If one can stand being overwhelmed with tourists, it might be considered a nice place to live. It is the alleged home of baseball, and Main Street is one baseball memorabilia shop after another, to the exclusion of 'most everything else.
During the summer, I stay as far away from Main Street as possible.
Real estate is way high, and so are rents. Still want to move here?
[ December 08, 2005, 11:19 AM: Message edited by: Bill Preston ]
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I guess you can tell Im effing off today. Oh well at least I'm having fun doing it. Edited to add this would be done on my MultiCam router and sell for $9,873.25 Edited to say "Awesome design Stevo"
[ December 08, 2005, 04:28 PM: Message edited by: Bob Stephens ]
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I was thinking of playing up the baseball thing too, so heres a shot. Looks more like a minor league ball team than a residential developement. Posts: 183 | From: Cape Cod MA | Registered: Jan 2005
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Amazing stuff! I really like what Arthur did with the business cards. Isn't it great to hear an old worn out instrument played by a real musician?
Makes me wonder what the same project would look like using just Brush Script? Naaaaa.
[ December 08, 2005, 11:15 PM: Message edited by: Steve Shortreed ]
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First off I read through the "REGULATIONS" carefully because I ALWAYS follow the rules.
quote:Let's all try our hand at designing a sign ONLY in Helvetica (any weight, or mixed, as long as it is ONLY Helvetica)
The sign is for the entry to a development. The ONLY copy is COOPERSTOWN ESTATES. This can be anything from condos to carriage homes to mobile homes. It can be any size, shape, material, or color. Feel free to throw on some clip art or cheap tricks.
As stated above cheap tricks ARE ALLOWED. And Phoebe really encouraged me to have some fun!! So I typed out the Helvetica lettering in Illustrator, converted it to outlines and then MODIFIED it a little to suit the development. In this case it's Cooper the Moose's Estates - a land in a theme park. It would be THREE DIMENSIONAL in a really big way... of course.
I kinda got carried away with the modifications to the Helvetica font in Cooperstown, but BELIEVE me is REALLY is Helvetica. Honest! And to poke at those who HATE the first and last letter in bigger letters than the rest I just HAD to do it that way. I'm just bad.
To make up for my heavy modification of Cooperstown lettering I didn't modify Estates at all - with the exception of my 'world famous' shakey linework. While I was at it I added it to everything in the concept.
I'd do it all on the MultiCam of course - as big as the client would allow.
And I would probably charge much more than Bob Stevens!
-grampa dan
[ December 09, 2005, 01:05 AM: Message edited by: Dan Sawatzky ]
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