Over the last week I’ve been in charge of creating a door sign for the new Pedal Brain office. This ended up being much more of an ordeal than I originally intended it to be, but I’m proud of how it turned out.
To begin, I had to model the entire Pedal Brain logo in 3D. Well, actually, I had to learn how to model anything in 3D before slapping together the 3D version. I ended up using Modo to model it after SketchUp produced some less than ideal results. Although modeling the logo in Modo took considerably longer than SketchUp, it produced a much better logo and convinced me to try more things in 3D.
From there, my recently modeled logo headed to our 3D printer. This printer is primarily used for printing out prototypes of our iPhone mount, but I thought it would be great to use it for creating a door sign. The printing process took nearly three hours, but turned out much better than I could have anticipated.
Once printed, I had to stock up on some painting supplies to apply the official Pedal Brain Orange. After a few coats of white the logo was almost ready to go. Applying the orange around the outer edge put my lackluster painting skills to the test, but ended up being fairly easy.
Finally, we spent about 25 minutes trying to remove the door from the hinge with no success. From the stripped screws you could tell the previous renters also tried to get the door off, and quit at the same point. After some careful measuring, it was time for what I referred to as a round of high stakes kerning.
Several hours of work, one menacing bottle of super glue.
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