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MikeRaffone Special user 623 Posts |
Looking for any ideas on how to improve this process or if I am going about it the wrong way.
Here's what I have so far. 1. Design an 18" x 24" sign using Microsoft Publisher. 2. Print it on my color printer on 8.5 x 11 photo paper. 3. Cut and tape the pages together. 4. Glue the sign onto a signboard and laminate it. 5. Attach velcro peices to the back of sign and attach it to table.
Mike Perrello
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drwilson Inner circle Bar Harbor, ME 2191 Posts |
Dear Mike,
If you are not looking for a overly-slick look, try this: 1. Design an 18" x 24" sign using whatever software you like. 2. Print it out in black and white on cheap paper. 3. Tape the pages together (no tape on the back). 4. Rub the back with a pencil to make a poor man's carbon paper out of it. 5. Get a piece of Masonite or hardboard the right size, glue 1" x 2" pieces to the edges on the back with Gorilla Glue, and coat the front with acrylic gesso or acrylic primer. 6. Tape the sign to the front and trace out the design with a pencil. 7. Paint the sign with acrylics. To me, computer printouts as signs look cheap. If you don't have enough confidence in your painting ability to do the above, spend the bucks to get someone else to do it (artists are starving and work cheap), or at least get a digital print place to print it out on cloth or vinyl. This is shockingly expensive, but just as the old medicine-show guys had twenty-dollar gold pieces for buttons, expensive flash convinces people that you are successful and worth watching. By the way, you might want to get someone else to design your sign for you if you are not that sharp at graphics and layout. Most people's posters, business cards, and promotional artwork look terrible to me. Above all: cheap looks cheap. Don't look cheap! Yours, Paul |
The Mirror Images Inner circle Michigan/USA 1980 Posts |
Or Kinkos. They can print all that for you. It would cost the same amount when you add the tape, paper, ink, time, and etc.
ANd it would look nicer then being taped togeather. Michael
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kregg Inner circle 1950 Posts |
If the sign will be a permanent piece. You could have a friendly artist or a sign maker paint one based on your design. If it's a play bill try to get the venue to make them for you.
Best Wishes Kregg
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts |
I second what Paul said. I had Kinko's make a sign once, even mount it and laminate it. First time I got caught in the rain, this nice expensive sign ran like a scalded ape.
I enlarge the image as said, on as many 8.5 x 11 pages as needed. Then, I carefully cut them out and use them to make reverse stencils. I paint the sign (in this case, the front of my table) the color that I want the lettering to be. Once dry, I attach the letters to it using a LIGHT coat of spray mount, on the back of the letters ONLY. These letters effectively mask the area I want to remain unpainted, then I spray the rest of the sign the color of the background. Peel off the masking letters, and you have a nice sign.
~michael baker
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MikeRaffone Special user 623 Posts |
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On 2005-10-07 11:19, drwilson wrote: That would be great if there was someone out there that could design one that looks professional and lasts long and I would be willing to spend the money. Unfortunately I got ripped off once by a graphics design company which is why I am exploring the do-it-yourself methods.
Mike Perrello
DC Area's Leading Family Entertainment Expert |
shomemagic Inner circle Missouri 2232 Posts |
I think I have what you need.... My wife and I do signs with a Vinyl Cutter, she is also an old time sign painter, but in this age everyone is in a hurry. Let me know what you want exactly and I can get a price quoted with shipping.
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PennyMagic4U New user 78 Posts |
If it is a choice go with the vinyl. You won't be sorry. It is well worth the price - try a banner design - rollup.
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