I love my job. It's brilliant. I get to work with really interesting people.
Just look at this stuff. We spent this afternoon with a company that make neon and cold cathode lighting (CCL), in fact the only company in NI that do it. It's a family business, they've been doing it since 1958 and the impression I got was that they love it. It's real craft. We got to see them bending glass, we learnt about neon and argon gas and how they can combine red, green and blue CCL inside some kind of defuser to make a light that can change into whatever colour you want with the twiddle of a knob.
We learnt why neon and CCL are still excellent ways to light things: a) it looks brilliant, and b) it lasts for ages; there are, apparently, neon signs that have been burning for 15-20 years.
But what a fantastic job for any graphic designer: we've got to develop a new ID for them, help them define what they offer, get them noticed and show why they're the people to talk to. Lovely job. I'm very, very excited.
Lovely. Puts my effort to shame!
But just in case you're interested ...
http://cultureisking.typepad.com/culture_is_king/2007/01/going_through_a.html
Posted by: Culture is King | 20 February 2007 at 11:55 PM
very cool.
Posted by: jon | 21 February 2007 at 12:06 AM
Can't wait to see your identity. I have a new appreciation for neon these days since my weekly night class in neon bending began. It's really really difficult work.
Posted by: Stewf | 21 February 2007 at 12:23 AM
That is a bloody fantastic job. Well done!
Is that the one you won last week?
Posted by: Ben | 21 February 2007 at 07:53 AM
Job to kill for, indeed. Curious about your solution, in a way it seems very easy, but is it?
Posted by: Blip | 21 February 2007 at 08:23 AM
Stephen, are you really learning how to do this? Actually, I don't know why I doubt it.
Ben, no this isn't the one we won last week, this kind of came through one of those referrals.
Blip, I know what you mean. I think I've got it in my head already but once it's on paper perhaps it won't work.
Posted by: Richard | 21 February 2007 at 09:48 AM
Some inspiration for you...
My project for class:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewf/369690189/
Neon I have loved:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=23806189%40N00&q=neon&m=text
The Neon Sign Group on Flickr, 2000 strong:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/neonsigns
You should allow HTML in your comments, Richard. Just got done formatting these links all purdy, and now ... well now maybe I should just get a life.
Posted by: Stewf | 21 February 2007 at 10:08 AM
Would love to see your thumbs and final identity once it's complete.
Posted by: David Airey | 21 February 2007 at 11:24 AM
Sounds like a fabulous project. Will you post your work?
Posted by: sulu-design | 21 February 2007 at 01:19 PM
lucky you. And as ever, great pics
Posted by: David | 21 February 2007 at 02:24 PM
Susan, to be honest there's an unwritten Ace Jet rule that I won't use it to show my work. I hope that doesn't disappoint anyone but I'm very grateful for everyone's comments. I just wanted to express my excitement and say how brilliant it is to be a graphic designer.
Posted by: Richard | 21 February 2007 at 02:35 PM
It's amazing work.
I am a neon bender from India.I am very grateful for this worke.This is a art for me.
I want evolution of neon sign.
I am very grateful everyone whose are attached this woke.
Posted by: RATAN TALUKDAR | 16 November 2008 at 06:55 PM