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There are times when your customer throws you a curve ball... they really want something in a sign that doesn't really fit. But sometimes these things can really make you think and perhaps force you to come up with a solution that works.
A local business saw the farm sign we did and liked the idea of a mountain carved in relief for their double faced hanging sign... it sure fit for the name of the business was Vedder Mountain Grille. I liked the notion for the mountain is the very same one I look out on from my studio windows every day. I did up a concept which they loved. They just wanted one small addition. The husband partner rides his motorcycle on the mountain regularly - hence the name of the business.
I went back to my drawing board and drew the sign a bunch of different ways... with silhouettes of a motorcycle and rider but I wasn't happy... until the idea of incorporating him into the bracket as a plasma cut outline... some traditional scrolls became the dirt spinning off the back wheel...
The clients loved it...
-grampa dan
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Mucho Bueno, plus it'd look great from both sides.
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He did it again, what a guy, there is no limit to what Dan can do. Bill
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Dan, Great concept!! I love it and it looks a whole lot better than their present sign. If you ask how I would know, well I visited Dan 2 weeks ago and he took me to lunch there.
-------------------- Michael Clark Clark Signs 138 W. Main St. Aledo, IL 61231 clarksigns1@yahoo.com www.clarksigns.net Posts: 241 | From: Aledo, IL | Registered: Sep 2001
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The addition of the motorcrosser seems like it might slightly limit the customer base to bike types? Especially, dirt bike types and not even bikers. Maybe some other image up there? Just my two cents worth.
-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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I agree with you Preston. But these folks are hard core dirt bikers and REALLY WANT this image in the sign. My job is to get it in there and still make the sign work for the rest of their customers.
I am a lot happier with the image as part of the bracket than as part of the sign.
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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Neat solution to a difficult problem...the biker and scrolls become an embellishment of the bracket and are secondary to the message...and everyone is happy without having to compromise.
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