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Where will you be in regards to your career???
What turns do you think the industry will have taken???
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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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!
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3822 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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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." Posts: 1739 | From: Trenton, NJ, USA | Registered: Jun 2001
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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
-------------------- 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!!! Posts: 8739 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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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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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.
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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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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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.
-------------------- Bob Rochon Creative Signworks Millbury, MA 508-865-7330
"Life is Like an Echo, what you put out, comes back to you." Posts: 5149 | From: Millbury, Mass. U.S. | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- Ed The Signwerks 1951 SR 254 Orangeville, Pa. Posts: 199 | From: Orangeville, Pa. USA | Registered: Dec 2000
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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
-------------------- John Lennig / Big Top Sign Arts 5668 Ewart Street, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada bigtopya@hotmail.com 604.451.0006 Posts: 2184 | From: Burnaby, British Columbia,Canada | Registered: Nov 2001
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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.
-------------------- Signs Sweet Home Alabama
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"Look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, work like a dog" Posts: 5758 | From: "Sweet Home" Alabama | Registered: Mar 2003
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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
Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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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.
-------------------- 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, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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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.
-------------------- Thom CREATIVE SIGNWORKS Lancaster,PA creativesignworks1@juno.com Posts: 79 | From: lancaster,PA usa | Registered: Dec 2000
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20 years from now!??!?! Heck, I'm still working on my 3 year plan One thing for sure, I'll be that the old school gang will be bashing the new technology.
Havin' fun,
Checkers
-------------------- a.k.a. Brian Born www.CheckersCustom.com Harrisburg, Pa Work Smart, Play Hard Posts: 3775 | From: Harrisburg, Pa. U.S.A. | Registered: Nov 1998
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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.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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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!
-------------------- "It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot
Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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