sixteen foot tradeshow booth

[D-Frag]

Ehhhh, not to happy with the blades on the right panel, but you have no idea how much of a bitch it is to do this stuff this big.

Anyways, heavy photoshop work on the engine (had to take out the reflection of the photographer) heavy photoshop work on the spinnig blurred images. Total time for two eight foot booths = 7.45 hours.

Critiques welcome, this thing went to print on Friday.


p.s. PDF'd so you can zoom in and check out the gridlines.

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[JB]

I'm loving what you did with the grey to outline the contraption on the left one. So creative! The blades on the right were really creative too...kudos!!

[TBdesign]

There a few things I think could have been changed, but it went to print already.

I like the layout it works well and fits the topic.
Around the engine the grey background with the shadow or emboss is to heavy and takes away from the main point.
The gradient below the engine and to the right side could be reworked a little. Just to much shadow use I think.
I dont think the blades in the back should go into the logo, behind the logo may have worked. I dont think the type is working. Dont know if it was a local client or not? But reshooting the engine I think would have made a major imapct.

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[swank60]

I'm not crazy about the blade thing - it's a good concept though, and one you can develop through some of thier other stuff. I don't care for how the logo is washed out.

I like the left side - but a whole lot of that is because of the emotional approach. I'll nod my head and think about 'nimble & responsive' before reading 'componet overhaul' etc. It's tricky though - what words do you use to get people interested enough to start a dialog or stick something in their heads?

I was working on trade material for a new client who sells boats & yachts. Different targets for each line they sell, but one in particular is a scrappy ski boat that's bigger than the comp. The dealer had come up with the headline 'Go Bigger' - which was fine, and the signs for each boat had a list of stats illustrating thus, a photo in action, etc. I felt like something was missing and added the line just below the stats: 'Little boats are for sissies' - Now there's something more to stick the customers with, and the dealer has started using it, as well. They all now refer to the comp boats as 'The sissy boats' - and when you're talking like that to a wakeboarder, it's going to stay there - because it's funny, a little irreverant, and kind of punchy. Seems like you could do something 'nimble & responsive' with the right side...

just my $.02

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[D-Frag]

thanks for the input guys and gals, I will let ya know what the client wanted.

Client wanted the engine to be 'Busting out' of that silver, heres the catch though. After researching my Scott Kelby books, and finding out how to do a 'Busting out' effect, I quickly came to the realization that isn't possible when working in a 8 foot .tiff file at 150dpi : ) Same goes with the blades, client wanted one panel to bust out, and the other panel to show motion. It took me well over 2 hours just to get the blades how they were (5 minute wait time when rotating stuff that big) also I had to do the motion blur at about a 1/10 scale. Reshooting the image was impossible, this job was given to me with a 3 day turnaround....had to do what I could, that engine was only a 386kb jpg, im surprised it looked that good blown up.

Cursive type on left panel was inevitable, client wanted it, so client gets it. Logo faded on right panel, again client wants what client gets.

Figured I would give ya somewhat of a heads up on what client wanted, and what I was able to give him. I think I did pretty well considering the size of these, file size was around 1.5gig for each panel.

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[PrintDriver]

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Get a mac.
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PD is a grande format digital print dude. His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[D-Frag]

lmfao!!

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[swank60]

I wonder if, for the busting out thing, you could have mixed vector art into the mix. And for the size of the file you were working with, and the deadline, I'd say it worked out well; especailly considering the start-files size. (The one draw back of the digital camera revolution - clients go out and buy a 2mp camera and start sending you photos for final art. Oh well, we do what we can.)

it's always tough to meet the wants with the needs - and clients who know what they want are always tougher than the ones who only have an idea of what they want.

What process did you output it to? Big inkjet?

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[D-Zine]

I guess it doesn't matter anymore what Swank wondered...LOL

Oops...anyways D-Frag, I dunno sh!t about trade show booths and large format but I like what you have done here!

:)

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[Magnus]

I liked it when you first showed me it...and I still do!

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[DeleteYourself]

Great job.

(ditto what PD said)

LOL.

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[Tyger]

I like it d-frag...nice job.

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[max_nhk]

Usually for large format. I'll just do a small visual for the client to approve first. Once he's happy with it, then I'll product the actual version.

Helps save lots of time, only problem is when the client comes back with changes AFTER approving!!! /emoticons/mad.gif