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Frank Magoo
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Where will you be in regards to your career???

What turns do you think the industry will have taken???

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Frank Magoo,
Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com
"the only easy day was yesterday"

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Don Coplen
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Frank, your pics aren't showing up. [Rolling On The Floor]

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KARYN BUSH
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well hopefully in 20 years i'll be retired.

things will be so different in 20 years it will blow your mind!

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Karyn Bush
Simply Not Ordinary, LLC
Bartlett, NH
603-383-9955
www.snosigns.com
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Alicia B. Jennings
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In twenty years, my face lift show be just about completely healed. And I'll be one of them persons who has two residents. One south and one north. And I wil still be doing vehicle signage.
Wow, by that time I'll be a real legend!

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Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl)
Tacoma, WA
Since 1987
Have Lipstick, will travel.

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Harris Kohen
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I hope to be filthy rich by then [Smile]

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Harris Kohen
K-Man Pinstriping
and Graphix
Trenton, NJ
"Showing the world that even
I can strategically place the
pigment where its got to
go."

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Dan Sawatzky
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It seems like the last 20 years has fast forwarded. In twenty years I will be 72. I suspect that I won't bee too worried about trends in the sign industry although I hope to be still at it in some form... but not nearly as frantic as I am now.

I suspect my shop won't be equipped much different than it is now except for a MUCH faster computer which will undoubtably do things we can't even imagine now.

It will be an interesting ride!

-grampa dan

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Dan Sawatzky
Imagination Corporation
Yarrow, British Columbia
dan@imaginationcorporation.com
http://www.imaginationcorporation.com

Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!!

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George Perkins
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Well, at 80, I'll be working a little less than we do now. Hell, we only average 10-15 hours a week now so cutting back won't be too hard [Smile]

I imagine I'll be spending more time on here reading about the good old days when everyting was done in vinyl.

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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
goatwell@bigriver.net

"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

www.perkinsartworks.com

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Bill Preston
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Fast forward 20 years---age almost 90----probably dead---and past caring.

bill preston

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Bill Preston
Fly Creek, N.Y. USA

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If I'm alive hope I'm still consulting or designing. I don't plan to live that long, though.

I think that by then the industry will have come up with digital display 4'X8' signs that storeowners just plug a microchip into to display their business cards. They will probabaly be self-installing, too.

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Teresa Bostic
Bilbrey Signs, Inc.
Cookeville, TN

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Mike Pipes
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20 years from now?

49 years old and 4 months away from my planned retirement then I'll just dabble and dink around with stuff.. basically like I already do. [Smile]

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"If I share all my wisdom I won't have any left for myself."

Mike Pipes
stickerpimp.com
Lake Havasu, AZ
mike@stickerpimp.com

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Bruce Williams
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The industry will be all-digital in 20 years. Outdoor advertising that is not electrical will be rare, because most people will not get outside long enough to see it. This will be the result of 3 trends: the next crisis in motor fuel, overpopulation and advances in digital imagery.

If alternatives to petroleum fuel are developed, the traffic will be gridlocked constantly. Nobody will follow a sign, if it entails a left turn. Most people don't really need to go anywhere anyway. Whatever they do for "work" can already be done from home, and the inconvenience and pressure of driving around will eventually force this.

Everybody will have "virtual" access to anything they want. They'll have goggles, gloves and other sensory inputs for media like the "feelies" described by Huxley in _Brave New World_. The clientele will be in a state called Solipcism. Reality and fantasy will not matter. For graphics designers, it will be Hog's Heaven.

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Bruce Williams
Lexington KY

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W. R. Pickett
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...In 20 years I will (still ) enjoy watching the paint come off of the end of my brush. But by then, I don't know if it will end up where I aim it though!

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WR Pickett
Richmond, Va.

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Bob Rochon
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I have no clue what I'll be doing in 20 years much like I could not predict where I am now 20 years ago. It's not the destination that counts but the journey along the way.

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Bob Rochon
Creative Signworks
Millbury, MA
508-865-7330

"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you."

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Ed Gregorowicz
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In 20 years I'd like to be living in a lodge on a lake somewhere in rural Montana, Idaho, New England or anywhere in the mountains with an incredibly rich supermodel, enjoying life......Motorcycling, snowmobiling, hunting.....


Matter of fact, I'd like to be doing that right now.
Never mind.

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Ed
The Signwerks
1951 SR 254 Orangeville, Pa.

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John Lennig
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Still lettering with a brush, with lots of panels and gold work out there for the young'uns to Marvel at!!! :rofl:but will Big Top still be on the road? Is there a road to be on???

John

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John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts
5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby,
British Columbia, Canada
bigtopya@hotmail.com
604.451.0006

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Sheila Ferrell
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It's a pretty interesting question . . . hard to imagine where the focus of the industry will be then . . . we still grappling over it now . . . but I still hang with the idea that the more technicle stuff gets, the more some people will pay extra to have it 'done by hand'.

I will only be 63 and even if I were to be 93, I have no plans to retire from whatever I may be doing.

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Signs
Sweet Home Alabama


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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog"

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I'll be 63 too!
And hopefully still slingin' paint.
And I also hope my wrists, hips, and knees hold out.
Love....Jill

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James Donahue
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There is already a 'vicious circle' in place: money is tight for the sign customer, so they choose the lowest cost option, which brings the overall quality of signs/graphics in an area lower, and when that standard is accepted, then somebody will opt to lower the bar a little more...


And within 10 years spray painted signs done by 'taggers' will be acceptable business image. You think I'm nuts, and I hope I'm wrong, but I'm already seeing it. If it remains isolated, then well, but in this society, I don't know. I went to a mini truck site, and the poor grammar was shocking (not foul language).

As for me, I might still be doing obscure work that others don't.

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James Donahue
Donahue Sign Arts
1851 E. Union Valley Rd.
Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch,
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Twenty years from now everyone will have figured out that computers made our lives a total mess not to mention made most folks brain dead 'cause they lost all reason to think for themselves.
Mechanics will diagnose cars by how the engine sounds, engineers will use slide rules, and signs will be hand lettered with lead based paints on one type of substrate, MDO.

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Thom
CREATIVE SIGNWORKS
Lancaster,PA
creativesignworks1@juno.com

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Jimmy D. said
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As for me, I might still be doing obscure work that others don't
That about sums it up for me too.

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Snow's Sign Works
865-908-0076
snowman@planetc.com
www.snowsigns.com

I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...

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Kissymatina
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quote:
Originally posted by James Donahue:
I went to a mini truck site, and the poor grammar was shocking (not foul language).

Yeah, it is around here at times too. [Rolling On The Floor] Sorry, couldn't resist.

Don't know where I'll be in 20 years. I work on 5 year plans. [Smile]

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Chris Welker
Wildfire Signs
Indiana, Pa

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I think the bullboard will be filled with old geezers (oops, I mean seniors)

.... there will be lots of youngsters making wonderful signs.

The sign laws will be outrageous.

Movie type OLED signs will be banned from vehicles.

Our future grandkids will be in college.

I'll be spending my days on the boat fishing and snoozing.

ernie

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Balch Signs
1045 Raymond Rd
Malta, NY 12020
518 885-9899
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I for one hope I become Joey Madden

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Ryan Young
Indocil Art & Design
indocil@comporium.net
803-980-6765


I highjacked Letterville!!
Winter Muster 2004

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20 years from now!??!?! Heck, I'm still working on my 3 year plan [Smile]
One thing for sure, I'll be that the old school gang will be bashing the new technology.

Havin' fun,

Checkers

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www.CheckersCustom.com
Harrisburg, Pa
Work Smart, Play Hard

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Hopefully retired to Gulf Coast - Seaside/Destin Area - -enjoying grandkids

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Carl Wood
Olive Branch, Ms

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In 20 years I will be 98 if still alive, but if not I will be looking down(I hope)and watching all of you make the world a little bit better with your work.

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Bill Riedel
Riedel Sign Co., Inc.
15 Warren Street
Little Ferry, N.J. 07643
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My day 20 years from now:

ahhhhh, I wake up without an alarm clock, and listen to the birds chirping outside. I snuggle up to my hubby of then almost 40 years. I can't believe how fast the time has flown and I take a minute to give thanks for the many blessings in my life. I smell the coffee brewing (it will definately be brewing itself in 20 years, won't it?) and put my pink fuzzy housecoat on. I take a cup of coffee out onto the deck, and overlook the lake and the beautiful view.
Today is going to be another great day.

We have breakfast on the deck, do we read the newspaper or is everything on line? I do a few chores and then decide what I'm going to do for the day. Do I finish that great book I'm reading, do I work on the picture I'm painting in the art room? Maybe I'll head out to the shop and work on stripping that dresser I bought at that auction sale. I definately need to tidy up out there!
I stop to pick a few weeds out of my garden as I walk around the yard with my coffee. Don is getting ready to head out in the boat. Maybe I'll pack a lunch and we'll spend the day fishing.
We'll have our friends over for supper tonight, we always enjoy getting together with friends. Later, I'll phone the grandkids to see how their day went, and invite them to spend their summer with us.
I'm really glad I worked hard in my younger days, and that we put some money away 20 years ago!! Thank god for oil stocks! It is really so nice to be retired at 55!

[Smile]

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Eliot

Suelynn Sedor
Sedor Signs
Carnduff, SK Canada

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