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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.
Mantle installation
Monday morning started out with a bang.
Production in spite of me
Yesterday was one of those days when almost nothing went right. Tools broke and had to be replaced, pieces were missing and had to be fabricated, and I simply got things wrong
Key piece installed
Today I had my heart set on finishing the outside concrete work.
Counter inlay and other progress
Progress continues on many fronts at the Fox & Hounds pub.