On Aug 5, 7:46*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:32:05 -0400, "D.Duck" wrote:
On 8/5/2009 8:15 PM, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
Well, I took Harry's advice and changed the font - I hate to admit it,
but he was right - in fact, all of you were right - weird font that
seemed like a good idea at the time.

So I spent the morning with Captain Joel Perry of Graphics Unlimited
in Pomfret Center, a noted graphic artist, all around good guy and a
Master Mariner who has restored some beautiful boats including a '50s
era Lyman, a genuine RI Oyster boat, a Penn Yann and an absoutely
gorgeous original 23' Grady White he rebuilt.

http://www.gusigns.com/

We went through a ton of iterations, different designs, changed fonts
until we were blue in the face - Joel put up with my picky behavior
and we finally settled on this one which is the semi-demi-hemi-sort
of-maybe-kind of final design with a few tweaks and modifications -
primarily color will stay the same, but the lightning bolt may be
changed to a sine curve - I'm worn out on it, but I like this - just a
couple of things I want to think about over the next couple of weeks.

http://www.swsports.org/images/Team%...twave%20IV.jpg

http://www.swsports.org/images/Team%20Shortwave%20V.jpg

Not a bad start - two days and about eight hours of work.

I assume you're doing these mock-ups in some graphics program.

To my untrained eye it seems that 'S. Woodstock, CT' should be centered
under 'Sportfisherman'. *Maybe that would look strange to me also
without actually seeing in.

I just don't think it's balanced.

It's not - it's just an idea we're kicking around. So far, this is my
favorite.

Yeah - we're using a graphics program, but he has a neat approach - he
used heavy construction paper and acutally cuts the designs out when
you see something you like, puts it together to see what it looks like
off the screen.

The image doesn't do it justice - it looks better in person than it
does in the .jpg.

Well, the art would be visible (and cool!) when you got the boat up on
plane

http://gallery.photo.net/photo/4818218-lg.jpg