I am new to the area (Letterville) and thought I would introduce myself.
I am excited to see so much wonderful work and helpful critiques.
I would like to show a sample of a channel letter job I designed and my company recently completed. It was taken from an existing logo that I modified. The original logo was red & orange and I thought that this would spruce things up a bit. Let me know what you think.
Beautiful work Rick. I really like the over all appearance. Nice to meet ya pal…
Posted by Felix Marcano (Member # 1833) on :
Nice woik. Welcome.
Posted by Brian (Member # 39) on :
Welcome aboard, nice looking design. Very bright and inviting. I take it you are a designer for this company? Tell us more about the process.
Posted by David Wright (Member # 111) on :
Nice to see some good electrical work here. Any interest in bidding on a Detroit area job?
Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :
Hey there new guy.....nice work!
Posted by Jon Aston (Member # 1725) on :
WHOA! VERY IMPACTFUL!! I bet your customer was "pleased as punch"...and I'll bet they get asked "who did your sign?" from time to time...you might want to leave them with a small stack of business cards, if they will agree to hand them out.
How about a step-by-step?
Oh, and Welcome to Letterville!
Posted by Rick Stemmler (Member # 3302) on :
Thanks for all the great responses.
I do all the designs for my company and I do wholesale design for other sign companies that we sub-contract with.
For this job, the client is from Chicago and opening a Restaurant in an upscale shopping center in Fort Wayne. We never met the client. All interaction was by telephone and email. He emailed me a scan of his business card. It had red & orange copy that may have been ok for print, but would have spelled certain doom for a channel letter job mounted to an ochre fascia.
The salesperson had a telephone conversation with the client and explained what we thought would be in his best interest. Then we emailed the artwork. WOW!!! he was impressed. We created an entire sign package for him including 2 sets of channel letters and 2 awnings. We presented top-shelf design and asked for top-shelf pricing. He asked for a faxed contract to sign without negotiating on the price.
The building had yet to begin construction when the sign designs were underway. For the conceptual rendering of the drawing I had to scan the building blue prints and alter them in photoshop, I did the layout in corel draw, and sent the design as a .pdf file.
Thanks again for all the great responses!
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Hey Rick, nice stuff. What programs/platform do you design in?
Posted by Rick Stemmler (Member # 3302) on :
Hi Amy,
I design on the Windows platform using CorelDraw 10, Photoshop 6, Illustrator 10, Freehand 10, Fireworks 4, and Flexi-Sign Pro 6.6
Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
very nice work Rick-welcome aboard.
Posted by Mark Neurohr (Member # 2470) on :
Welcome abord Rick! I check'd out more of your stuff from your web-site.
