Blogs
A change is as good as a rest.
We don’t do a lot of residential and cabin signs but when we do I enjoy them. In this case the owner’s wanted something playful that reflected their relaxed time at their cottage.
Workshops coming fast!
Our next Sign Magic Workshop is now less than eight weeks away – March 9-11, 2012. In these workshops we talk about, show and practice, hands-on, all the things I write about here in the blog.
Terps Racing – 2012 Racecar Design
The University of Maryland's Formula SAE team is a world ranked collegiate design group. Every year they design, build and compete an open-wheeled racecar. Competition includes almost 1000 different schools from all around the world, the University of Maryland is...
Town crier sign(s) done.
Yesterday I worked on the signs adding color after color, glaze after glaze. Each stage went quickly and by the time I was done every square inch of the signs had at least four layers of paint/glaze – some up to six coats. Because of the design and routing of multiple layers and lots of textures the process went easy
SpaceX Dragon Space Capsule – 360˚ View
SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, posted a tweet about their innovative space capsule known as Dragon. It is a free-flying reusable spacecraft made up of a pressurized capsule and unpressurized trunk used for Earth to Low Earth Orbit transport of...
Sign comes to life with color!
The two signs are being worked on simultaneously with progress being about equal. Similar but not the same, I’ll let the client choose the one they want and I’ll hand the other in our showroom as a sample to encourage future sales of this kind of sign. The paint started with Coastal Enterprises heavy bodied primer FSC-88 WB
More than just a pretty face.
Structure is critical in our work. Structure comes in many forms starting with the substrates we choose. In our shop I like to use 30 or 40 lb Precision board exclusively while most shops stick with the less expensive 15-20lb HDU
Ring that bell!
Today’s project was a simple one but it shows an EnRoute tool I use a lot these days. The tool is the revolve tool.
Here and there and everywhere.
Today was one of those days where I jumped all over the place.