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Hi Folks - I'm looking to hook up with and interview signmakers and designers approximately 30 years of age and under for a Signcraft Magazine article I'm working on. If you resemble this description and want to participate, please give me a call at 519-426-6124, or email me at randy@kwic.com, and I'll fill you in on what it's all about
-------------------- Randy Howe Gougerville Sign and T-Shirt Co. 408 St. John's Rd. E. RR#3 Simcoe, Ontario / N3Y 4K2 519-426-6124 Posts: 203 | From: PORT DOVER, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Aug 1999
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-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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I sent you an email. I am hanging on to 29 until July... And my friends its nearing very quickly. As I said in my email.. I am hanging on tight to my last few months of my twenties.
Contact me any time.
Thanks, Theresa
-------------------- Theresa N. Hoying Visual Concepts 130 South Lester Avenue Sidney, Ohio 45365 937.492.2110 Posts: 176 | From: Sidney, Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
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This is an interesting idea of finding young signmakers. We all here get so focused on all this experience and wisdom and I celebrate the idea that there are some younger sign makers out there who are trying to learn the skills.
I was 27 with a degree in drawing and painting and three years of architecture grad school when I started my first sign shop. We had an opaque projector and hand pounced all out patterns to quill out trucks, cattle trailers and business signs. The only thing we had for reference to new ideas was Signs of the Times. No Letterville and no other signmakers to help us grow....and of course I had to walk to work every morning in the snow ten miles LOL.
I saw an ad from some company in Arizona that had computer cut vinyl Helvetica letters. Wow!
Today's realities are so much better. How come there are not more young painters coming up behind us? Is it a lack of work ethic or just that we are not fostering young people coming up behind us?
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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yes Rusty - I must agree that the phrase "HOOK UP" was an unusual choice of words on my part for this project - but since it's out there, if anyone out there wants to "HOOK UP", I am going to wave the 30 and under requirement for all the beautiful and talented ladies here in Letterville.
-------------------- Randy Howe Gougerville Sign and T-Shirt Co. 408 St. John's Rd. E. RR#3 Simcoe, Ontario / N3Y 4K2 519-426-6124 Posts: 203 | From: PORT DOVER, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Aug 1999
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-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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hi Jack - I am 51 now , and just reflecting on how I started out in the business made me wonder about what attracted the next generation into the sign industry, so I ran the idea of doing a story past the boys at Signcraft, they said give it a shot and see what happens
-------------------- Randy Howe Gougerville Sign and T-Shirt Co. 408 St. John's Rd. E. RR#3 Simcoe, Ontario / N3Y 4K2 519-426-6124 Posts: 203 | From: PORT DOVER, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Aug 1999
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As I said in my email.. I am hanging on tight to my last few months of my twenties. 
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