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Glenn Taylor
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Something about it is bothering me but I can't put my finger on it. It will be a vinyl window graphic. Hand painting and gold leafing on glass this is way outside the client's budget.

A frosted window design will be done in vinyl.

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Glenn Taylor
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Thinking it through........

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Preston McCall
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The "C" looks too much like a "G" IMHO. Cut back the bottom tail a bit?

The 3 windows, with the same image.... I kinda like it, but maybe it would be better to use the logo once and a bolder band across the other two with the same type of floral ornamentation? Or maybe even use the logo on the first and last, with some floral in the middle? Love the flowers.

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Preston McCall
112 Rim Road
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Bob Sauls
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Three alike will be fine in the frosted vinyl.

Remove the light blue from the letters and add it to the inside of the border as an inset accent. I am also thinking that your floral dingbats are far to interesting in styling and detail, they should be a bit more subtle. Theses things can become the main graphic message if we are not careful.

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Bob Sauls
Sauls Signs & Designs
Tallahassee, Fl

"Today I'll meet nice people and draw for them!"

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W. R. Pickett
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Lose the oval.

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WR Pickett
Richmond, Va.

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And 'frosted' is not effective for signage.

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WR Pickett
Richmond, Va.

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Neil D. Butler
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What about Printed Frosted?, we do this and it looks awesome! Almost like stained glass.

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Neil Butler
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I agree with Preston. The C looks like a G.

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Russ McMullin
Tooele, UT
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In my humble opinion, The serifs on the G interfere with the Cs causing a subliminal "G:". Reduce the size of the C, M, C a bit and cast a drop shadow on the underlying letter. I agree with Bob on the light blue relocation, but the contrast between the black outline to blue oval background will have to be increased.

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Ron Costa Sign and Design
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Craig Sjoquist
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Agrees the C looks like G

Likes name on glass without oval ( center one )brings out the frosted glass better, nice image

Maybe the oval up above but I like what ya have, maybe a smaller oval same size copy

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Craig Sjoquist
http://www.592sign.net
3220 N.O.B.T
Orlando Fl. 407-592-7446 vikinwolf@gmail.com

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Glenn Taylor
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I'm sorry for wasting everyone's time. I just fired the client a few moments ago.

Time to move on to the next project.

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.

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Todd Gill
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This sounds like a good story.... would you care to elaborate?

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Todd Gill
Outside The Lines
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Glenn Taylor
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Between the time of our initial meeting and taking a deposit for the logo design work and our meeting this morning, she had a talk with ......an architect.

Somehow, he convinced her that Avant Garde and Papyrus were the perfect typestyles to use for a "turn of the century country french" theme for her restaurant.

When I showed her the preliminary design work that I did, it was "unacceptable" saying it looked too much like "Cheers" the tv show. She then showed me the "design" the architect did for free (gag)and asked for her deposit back.

I told her deposits were non-refundable (as it states on the workorder she signed). She became irate, told me that she's "an artist too" and she was going to do her own design work.

I smiled, wished her well and started to leave. As I was leaving, she told me that she may have other work for me and that she expected the deposit be applied to it. I told her I didn't think that would be happening.

The architect's "free design" was "City Market Cafe" in Avant Garde (reg. weight) in all caps with "Good food, good friends" in Papyrus in upper/lower case. The "design" calls for the window lettering to be medium brown to match the brown awning.

[ September 19, 2012, 12:53 AM: Message edited by: Glenn Taylor ]

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.

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Neil D. Butler
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Glenn that's Funny! Sorta...

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Neil Butler
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The morals to the story is...Ya git what ya pay fer, but sometimes ya has ta pay fer things ya just don't git.

No matter what you show them, some people just will not understand the value of a well designed sign. Well done, and well played Mr. Taylor.

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Don Hulsey
Strokes by DON signs
Utica, KY
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I've always been crazy... but it's kept me from going insane.

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Glenn Taylor
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At times I feel like my life is being narrated by Paul Harvey in one of his "rest of the story" stories.

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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Wow .. Your design looked so good & had such a great looking image, easy to be a noticeable brand & very upper class the neighborhood kinda feel to it in any form chosen, that really surprises me to choose a plain book reading sign over yours even after deposit payed & not reading what it says before agreeing.
Well hope the deposit was good enough & be a great sales tool in shop, if ya want to bother with it.

Take a picture of finished sign next to yours free design vs paid. not much ya have say after that the picture will speak a 1,000 words for sure.

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Craig Sjoquist
http://www.592sign.net
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Orlando Fl. 407-592-7446 vikinwolf@gmail.com

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Wow...Avant Garde and Papyrus together...unlike many fonts...these fonts conjure up specific times in history...and might I say very different times in history...if used together I would think they would convey quite a confusing message...but who are we to question the architect.

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Rusty Bradley
Bradley Sign Studio
100 Creekview Road
Summertown, Tn. 38483

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Way to go Glen! [Applause]

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Jean Shimp
Shimp Sign & Design Co.
Jacksonville Beach, Fl

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I would have fired her too.


At least they weren't insisting on Comic Sans. That would have been a paddlin'.

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Brian Oliver
Paxton Signs
Fort Collins, CO
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He sure dug deep in the toolchest to pull out the Papyrus...

Speaking of, I went to a fancy restaurant in Aspen that had their logo and every word on their menu in Papyrus. Naturally, I wanted to leave immediately...

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Dan Beach
Cylinder 9 Designs
1650 Glassboro Rd
Sewell, NJ 08080

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Wouldn't it be nice if when we fire a customer all the comments from our social networking of professional sign artists were copied and sent to the client so they realize what idiots they are? Lol that would be priceless. Client opens their email and get a barrage of quotes telling them how wrong they really are. [Wink]

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Deri Russell
Wildwood Signs
Hanover, Ontario

You're just jealous 'cause the little voices only talk to me.

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Glen-

From an appreciation side, where did you get those flowers? or did you create them?

Thanks!

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Keith Jenicek
Artisan Signs
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Glenn Taylor
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I wish I could say that I created them, but I have nowhere near such talent. The flowers are part of my morgue collection that I've assembled over the years. I think they were part of a tutorial I ran across on the web 4 or 5 years ago.


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BlueDog Graphics
Wilson, NC

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Warning: A well designed sign may cause fatigue due to increased business.

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Ian Stewart-Koster
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I'm sure I've seen this thread or somethng like it a few years ago-deja-vu maybe...
but the C that too closely resembles the G reminded me of it.

Two things-is it considered OK not to have the / over the E of Cafe?

Re the scrolls-I know the job is now dead, but the scroll you've used underneath opens outwards, while the scroll on top is open towards the text, and the final 'flyaway' line dives into the top line of text, on top.
I'd delete the top scroll, and take the bottom one, duplicate it & rotate it 180 degrees-that's make it fit better, though I'm not overly rapt in them- a bit bold & not quote subtle enough for my preference!

Well done though!

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Thanks Ian.

Speaking strictly for my town of Wilson, use of the accent mark is relative to prices on the menu. [Wink]

Yeah, the top scroll bothered me but I didn't know why. I really need to spend more time studying the proper use of scrolls. I should have caught that.

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Wilson, NC

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