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Something is definitely in the air. Over the past month I've cranked out a few "fast sign" oriented jobs where the customer gave no details other than copy. I produce a really nice looking layout. Then the customer goes, "oh but we want it to look like this." The "this" they're talking about...

Um, some of this stuff is pushing in the direction of solutions in search of a problem. Does a kitchen refrigerator really need to be digitally equipped & connected to the Internet, much less have the latest version of Windows running on it? Call me skeptical or even paranoid, but I think a...

You didn't summarize what I said. You wrote something completely different that I never said. I never called you an idiot. I never made any attempt to imply it. All I did was give detailed, specific responses. Your fake quote of me is something that's only going on in your head.

The stuff going on with the user interface of Windows 8 is more of developers trying to chase Apple into the consumer electronics gadget/media consumption device space. Apple is pushing its app store more and more into OSX and doing more to leverage its line of "i" devices. In being scared...

Yet another snarky response. In other forums your fake quote attributed to me would not only be instantly cleaned up by moderators, but you might actually get your forum membership put on temporary or permanent suspension. I agree. However, I don't know this for certain, but I'm pretty...

When you publish a quote of me saying something I never really said I'll have every right to take offense.

Mike, you seriously need to cut out that nonsense right there. If you're going to post quotes do it accurately or DO NOT do it all. I have kept my tone civil and stuck to the facts. You're trolling for flames and begging for this thread to be locked. When someone is choosing to buy a...

I have to laugh at that IE 10 thing about a "plug-in free experience." HTML 5 has a great deal of creative possibilities. Unfortunately real world support in computer web browsers and mobile devices is still not very good. And that's despite the fact certain elements of "HTML 5" have been...

It only rules in the same vain as a Bud Light drinker saying Coors Light is horse urine. It's brand worship hyperbole. "Professionally trained" only applies to a graphics student when he is properly learning actual subjects in design rather than merely figuring out how to click around in...

Our shop can make authentic looking traffic signs. More often than not the customer merely wants one or more signs on his own personal or business property with the look of a certain kind of traffic sign. Standard flat or reflective vinyls (often with graphics digital printed) are fine for that...

Pardon me for getting off on a rant. I just don't buy whole notion of someone being "professionally trained on Mac." I think it's a bunch of nonsense. That's making the operating systems sound much harder to use than the actual truth. Operating systems are nothing more than the front end of the...

I've been through this before with a couple previous employees. You're inviting some irritating PITA situations into your daily operations by running a mixed OS environment. It would be one thing if you had only one designer and next to nothing in terms of existing art files and other assets. If...

This brings up two additional possibilities. 1. In going for a more uniform stroke the person could have set the type in Zapf Chancery Light-Italic and then applied the offset path effects to make it more bold. 2. Also, to keep the stroke more uniform the person could have squeezed the type...

That sign is out of date even for Swiss specifications. They typically use green backgrounds with legends set in Frutiger.

It looks like some kind of odd-ball, condensed version of a DIN typeface. But it isn't DIN Engschrift or FF DIN Condensed. Just some kind of strange copycat with a few liberties taken on the letter forms. Is this from an actual highway sign? It sure doesn't fit current MUTCD standards for...

I, for one, do not like wholesale suppliers selling direct to customers and letting the customer do it all himself to save a buck. There are many downsides to this. 1. The vast majority of customers do not know what they are doing when attempting any sort of graphic design, much less design a...

I had to create a channel letter sign for a company that had Papyrus in its logo. Yeah, everyone hates Papyrus for how it is so badly used. At least these folks used the original Letraset version rather than the AWFUL looking cut Microsoft bundles into MS Office. Anyway, I used Illustrator to...

I'm certain it's Zapf Chancery Medium Italic. However, it has been altered. Alteration #1: it has been squeezed. Ugh. Font Sacrilege. Alteration #2: it has been made artificially more bold using some sort of outline tool (Corel's contour effect, Illustrator's outline or path offset filters...

VersaWorks does support variable data field printing. Unfortunately there is one "gotcha" I really don't like about it: Most typefaces default to column spacing for the numerals. Column spacing looks TERRIBLE unless you're setting a lot of numerals in columns. I hate looking at badly spaced...

The real source typeface is Zapf Chancery. Most copies of CorelDRAW have it (or Zapf Calligraphic).