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Signs at every turn
There are signs all around our shop. They are on the new easel I built a few weeks ago. Others languish on the table tops, the table saw and around the shop and studio
Another and another and…
We are doing four versions and three sizes of the Fox & Hounds dimensional sign for various places in the project. Two are under way, while the last two await a sign permit
Instant ancient vine (frame work)
Work continues on many fronts on the Fox & Hounds pub project. Today the outside entry received the final coats of base paint, leaving the glazes to be done tomorrow. In the ladies washroom the last of the welded rusty steel stall dividers was installed today
Workshop name tags 4
Old car insignias have always intrigued me.
Workshop name tags 3
Cory’s name plaque was to be a diamond shape. The vertical and horizontal lines play off this shape and a comic font offsets the squareness of the diamond. It uses a bitmap from my TEXTURE MAGIC collection called checkerboard squiggles
Workshop name tags 2
The second name tag was a relatively simple one. Jeff’s name tag would feature his name on a log round. I imported the long round with splits bitmap from my TEXTURE MAGIC collection.
Workshop name tags 1
With the next Sign Magic Workshop quickly approaching (September 30 – October 2) it is time to start in on the name tags we create for our guests. I started with a sketch, as always. I designed in a hurry, ideas flow better that way, and scribbled down my ideas, moving on to the next as soon as I had it nailed.
Sign design in a different light
When most sign makers think of a sign their thinking is limited to the flat substrate and what they might stick onto it. At our shop we think of a sign as anything that attracts attention to our customer’s business, product or service. In the entry hall of the Fox & Hounds Pub we have a project that closely resembles a sign under most definitions.
Outside progress at the pub
Each day we do our best to cross another job off the list. For the longest while it seemed the list of projects ahead of us at the Fox & Hounds was much longer than the finished ones.