2005 schedule (downloadable pdf)

BGSU Falconz · Post by **BGSU Falconz** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:22 pm

XtotheZ wrote:Fluent Design Group is a design group that myself and a couple of my coworkers/friends are starting up on the side of our normal job. We specialize in print/web/photography. We are starting to take clients, and finishing up our site along with odds and ends.

You wouldn't happen to be hiring would you?

I hate my job. It's about 80% prepress and 20% design, and the atmosphere at the place is very hostile.

My situation is so desperate, I've been preparing to start carpet bombing the market with resumes.

I've been a graphic designer for about 8 years. Unlike most designers, I have a well-rounded education in taking a project from concept to output (unlike most designers who have no idea what has to happen to a printed piece when it leaves their desk).

I've had my hand in just about every type of media, including print (my specialty), web, multimedia, computer animation, video production, audio production, and freelance photography.

This site and joshharrisqb.com are just two of my web design brain childs.

Give me a PM if you're interested.

XtotheZ · Post by **XtotheZ** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:01 pm

I would take your Copyright off of there unless you have consent from the Athletic Departments to use all those logos. I am going to go out on a limb and say you probably don't since you are using the "retail" logo instead of the athletic logo for your design.

Yeah, I put it on there for the heck of it back when i made it......completely forgot to take it off.....will do that when i get into work tomorrow. Thanks for the heads up.

BourbonFalcon · Post by **BourbonFalcon** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:59 pm

If I wanted to blow the schedule up onto a big poster board or something to hang on the wall next to the beer pong table would Kinko's be the best place to take it? Also, speaking of copyrighting. Is it cool to make up some posters and sell them to friends at cost? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Keep up the good work!

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:01 am

kinkos is expensive as s**t, but yeah they would get the job done. the only thing that sucks with them though, is they print it out, scan it, and then print it again..... i have NOOO idea why. for some reason they wont just print from the original file. you could also probably take it to saddlemire or something once school starts, unless its open right now, i dunno, and do it yourself. the tech building also has a pretty good inkjet printer that would get the job done, but i duno if they'd let you use it or not.

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:58 am

mk455 wrote:the only thing that sucks with them though, is they print it out, scan it, and then print it again..... i have NOOO idea why.

Most of the time they do that is because of the VDF (viewing distance factor). It all comes down to the resolution of the original image and the resolution it needs to be when printed on a poster. The whole dots per inch thing changes when viewing 8.5x11 pieces of paper to a huge poster. That's about as simple as I can explain it.

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:33 am

makes sense. i remember learning about that in vct 308 or whatever it was. but even when kinkos does like a small copy, 8.5x11, they still print, scan, and reprint. they're dumb.

XtotheZ · Post by **XtotheZ** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 11:45 am

the whole thing is vector, so you can make it as large as you want without losing quality.

BGSU Falconz · Post by **BGSU Falconz** » Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:18 pm

Metz wrote:
mk455 wrote:the only thing that sucks with them though, is they print it out, scan it, and then print it again..... i have NOOO idea why.
Most of the time they do that is because of the VDF (viewing distance factor). It all comes down to the resolution of the original image and the resolution it needs to be when printed on a poster. The whole dots per inch thing changes when viewing 8.5x11 pieces of paper to a huge poster. That's about as simple as I can explain it.

But it's stupid when, at least in this case, the entire thing is vector artwork, which is not resolution dependent. If they used the original file, they could make it 200 feet long and it would retain its crispness.

Kinkos is just dumb. Seriously. I don't think I've ever stepped foot in there where they haven't screwed a project of mine up at least once.

Metz · Post by **Metz** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:56 pm

BGSU Falconz wrote:But it's stupid when, at least in this case, the entire thing is vector artwork, which is not resolution dependent. If they used the original file, they could make it 200 feet long and it would retain its crispness.

Kinkos is just dumb. Seriously. I don't think I've ever stepped foot in there where they haven't screwed a project of mine up at least once.

I've never seen them do that with Vector images...a lot of raster ones though. But I will agree, they are dumb and half their machines never work.

BGSU Falconz · Post by **BGSU Falconz** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 5:17 pm

Metz wrote:
BGSU Falconz wrote:But it's stupid when, at least in this case, the entire thing is vector artwork, which is not resolution dependent. If they used the original file, they could make it 200 feet long and it would retain its crispness.

Kinkos is just dumb. Seriously. I don't think I've ever stepped foot in there where they haven't screwed a project of mine up at least once.
I've never seen them do that with Vector images...a lot of raster ones though. But I will agree, they are dumb and half their machines never work.

It's not the machines that are the problem, it's the fact that 98.995% of their workforce don't know how to use them properly.

mk455 · Post by **mk455** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 8:04 pm

i would just say 99% even. i like to round up.