Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Ringling Brothers circus will be arriving in May!

(Modeling idea from one of our customers.) 

... as that is what the billboard is advertising. The painters are putting on the finishing touches as the morning sun is starting to shine on them. I got this idea while attending a ice hockey game in Trenton. There were some advertisements regarding the circus's arrival laying around. I thought that using some creativity and a scanner might result in a billboard. This ad was made by cutting and taping those original ads to be a little bigger than the billboard kit poster's space. I scanned it in along with adding text and dates. Had to experiment with the font and colors to see what combination looked best. Once that was done, I used a photo editing program to print off this "photo" of the ad then carefully trimmed so it would fit in on the billboard. Elmer's White glue was used and matte photo paper from Staples was used when printing it off. I thought that creating this allows my layout to be a little more personalized by creating a one-of-a-kind billboard.