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Hi all! You know how when something is right you just feel it? Well, this one just isn't doing it for me and I've played with it so much that even when I turn it upside down, I'm blank.... I'm looking for some ideas.... there is just something, (or two or three) missing.... This will be a outdoor (2 sided) hanging sign either on MDO or Aluminum. Thanks!
-------------------- Pat Foley Foley Signs 35812 Wells Road Coarsegold CA 93614 foleys@sierratel.com (559) 642-6264 Posts: 73 | From: Coarsegold, CA | Registered: Jan 2002
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Pat, go to Mark Roberts post yesterday "Color Generator" Choosing yellow as a background color, I believe you will find all the colors that you have used in your design. And adjust from there.
A picture speaks a thousand words...What about using a graphic / clip art that suggests an active, healthy family.
Just a thought. Love to see pics of the finished product!
-------------------- 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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I think you have too many fonts. With the 4 fonts going on, it's kind of hard to tell exactly what my eye should be focusing on. I would try one font for "Oakhurst" and "Chiropractic" and a different one for "Family", maybe a script. For the Drs. name maybe a lighter version of the one used for "Oakhurst".
Just my 2 cents. Let us see the finished design.
See ya!
-------------------- John Cordova Gitano Design Studio Albuquerque, NM Posts: 268 | From: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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maybe put a spine on it if you need one let me know
-------------------- Jimmy Chatham Chatham Signs 468 stark st Commerce, Ga 30529 Posts: 1766 | From: Commerce, GA, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Most of the 'Heads I have encountered are generous people...give you the shirt off their back types - but to offer your spine to help out another 'Head...well that is really something of you!
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-------------------- 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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there is a problem with "contrast" in the design. try looking at it in black and white (color ain't gonna save it).
the top line, "Oakhurst" is in a heavy, slab serif font to make it stand out.
the second line, "Family" is in red, placed eccentric to the others, and in a playful script, to make it stand out.
the third line, "Chiropractic" is tall, to make it stand out.
the fourth line, the doctors name, is in a solid bar, about the same value as the first line, to make it stand out.
there is a diamond uniting the "O" and "C" to make them stand out.
everything is standing out. (IT IS SORT OF LIKE SHOUTING A LOT).
A picture of a spine may improve the design if there are people who don't know what the word "chiropractor" means, but otherwise... clip art is clipart. If you use a picture, make it the dominant element, and do the rest of the words in a nice simple font.
Otherwise, pick one word to be the "hero" of the design. I'm guessing that the word Chiropractic is the most important (everybody probable already knows there in Oakhurst, they probably don't care what the doctor's name is, and "family" is a tough sell for medicine, unless children are 3/4s of their business.)
just my 2 cents
-------------------- :: Scooter Marriner :: :: Coyote Signs :: :: Oakland, CA :: :: still a beginner :: :: Posts: 1356 | From: Oakland (and San Francisco) | Registered: Mar 2001
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I'm listening!! Am I getting closer...? I've gone with the black & white just for now. He's giving me some freedom there. That colorschemer is awesome! Guess I'm so used to being boxed in with what 'they' want, that I don't know what to do with myself when someone sets me free!! Thanks to all of you! I'm listening to these ideas and trying to get something together to take to him this afternoon. (CA time) Thanks again!
-------------------- Pat Foley Foley Signs 35812 Wells Road Coarsegold CA 93614 foleys@sierratel.com (559) 642-6264 Posts: 73 | From: Coarsegold, CA | Registered: Jan 2002
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Try a more flowing script font for Family, maybe one of the Sign DNA FONTS, They look great & natural. Always design in B/W if it doesn't work in Black & white it won't work. how faar does it need to be viewed from? if it's far away, use somthing bolder, you are going from one extreme to the other, real thin to real heavy. Good Luck Gary
-------------------- Gary Wiant Vinyl Graphics Unlimited Shippenville, PA Posts: 66 | From: Shippenville, PA U.S.A. | Registered: Mar 2000
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Here is my take on the sign you are putting together for the good Doctor...
I like to design in black, grays, and white unless I am sure of the colors that are going to be used. It allows me to make sure that the contrasts are correct, to my liking anyways...
Thanks for letting me play!
have a great one!
-------------------- Bruce Bowers
DrCAS Custom Lettering and Design Saint Cloud, Minnesota
"Things work out best for the people who make the best of the way things work out." - Art Linkletter Posts: 6451 | From: Saint Cloud, Minnesota | Registered: Jun 1999
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Somewhere I heard that two heads are better than one, but what do you get when you put together a bunch of letterheads!? Thank you all! Yes, the whole layout shouting... "look at me!" I have that generic font pack with over 6,000 fonts! I looked at Sign DNA and see what I don't have! Good idea! I see what you mean by the thickest and the thinest, yep! Any recommendations for books to teach layout or the basic do's & don'ts? This 36" x 30", aluminum sign will be hung from the rafters above the door at a 90 degree angle to be viewed from the parking lot and will hopefully generate more business so I can buy some DNA fonts! And, you Bruce... do you offer a correspondence course? I'd like to enroll! Thanks again!
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