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Old Oct 16, 2015 | 10:13 PM
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A buddy of mine is creative, he took a picture that I had sent him of my 72 and created a poster he is going to have made up. I thought it was pretty cool and very nice of him to do it. What do you think? I think I may have him change the "bought" to "built" after all, its my creation.
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Old Oct 16, 2015 | 10:28 PM
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Since you asked..I would remove all the verbage, place the crossed flags higher, center the pic of your car, and keep Stingray at the bottom, where they all are centered.
The car, YOUR car is the focal point, and it brings up all sorts of visions/dreams/ideas to different people.
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Old Oct 16, 2015 | 10:49 PM
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Very nice! He did a great job.
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Old Oct 16, 2015 | 11:39 PM
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I like it but if you're asking for criticism I would shrink the cross flags and Stingray just a little bit so the car stands more.
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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 12:13 AM
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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 12:15 AM
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Nice feedback, I think I will ask him to shrink the emblem a bit, maybe tone down the verbage, I kind of like that part of it.
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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 12:22 AM
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that would make a nice poster, and if you could figure out how to do the iron on transfer, would be a great shirt to wear.

I thought about the saying, and have to agree. I always look back at my car after I park it and think what a great looking car.

good luck on your minor changes.

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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 09:50 AM
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Great job on the design!

Make the writing at the top in script/not as "thick/big"....to match the "Stingray" script at the bottom/change the 2nd "and"---make it "to".

Go smaller on the Corvette Emblem and raise it so it a little so it doesn't overwhelm your car.

Center the "Luxor" sign with the emblem.

Lower the "Stingray" script a little.

There..............PERFECT!
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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 10:43 AM
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One thing I can tell you after being a Graphic Designer for the last 25 years - design is subjective. You can design an effective piece for someone and they still want to play designer even though they hired a designer because they are not. Sort of like telling the dentist - I wouldn't use that tool to fix my tooth. lol
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One thing I can tell you after being a Graphic Designer for the last 25 years - design is subjective. You can design an effective piece for someone and they still want to play designer even though they hired a designer because they are not. Sort of like telling the dentist - I wouldn't use that tool to fix my tooth. lol
Actually.....I had to tell the dentist how to fit the crown on my tooth...being a machinist, I explained to him that he needed to trim the Outside of the crown rather than the inside.

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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by doorgunner

change the 2nd "and"---make it "to".
DG is correct on the above part though...it's proper grammar.
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I agree with doorgunner. Make the wording up top smaller and the car proportionally larg err r to everything else as well as bought to built. That would be an awesome gift from your bud to you
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Old Oct 17, 2015 | 05:20 PM
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I always look back just to make sure its not leaking something.
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Old Oct 18, 2015 | 12:39 PM
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^^^ It still makes you look so it must be the right one.^^^

How's this one? I'm the one that's making this for him. Any criticism is welcome. Wanna get it right. Hope you don't mind me posting this Sunstroked?

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Maybe photoshopping the background buildings out would make the car stand out better...

Either way, I like the poster, sure is much sharper than the one I made!



I took a digital photo of an old standard film picture of my '71 in its younger days and tried to clean up the shot with basic computer photo tools and then had it blown up to poster size.

Mounted it in the garage to motivate me to keep working and get the car (now in a thousand pieces) back to it's original condition!

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Looks good. Whats it look like with the flags a little smaller maybe 3/4 to half that. They seem to draw attention away from the vette
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One more suggestion to make it more generic. Some people build their Corvette. Some people buy their Corvette. Everyone drives their Corvette. Maybe consider "if you can park it and not turn back to look at it you're driving the wrong car".
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My thought's for what their worth....I'd leave the Cross Flag's and Stingray off. I think they over power the picture of the Corvette. Distract's the eye. The Corvette speak's for it's self.

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Originally Posted by 3JsVette
One more suggestion to make it more generic. Some people build their Corvette. Some people buy their Corvette. Everyone drives their Corvette. Maybe consider "if you can park it and not turn back to look at it you're driving the wrong car".
Its the OPs corvette that he built so its appropriate
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You should have your bud do a second poster with some arizona mesas or mountains as well
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