Week 5 – One size up

This week an old design was requested. Luckily I had the file waiting to be printed. Here goes nothing…

The print production staff came in and returned the vinyl to me after attempting to peel it. It’s a mess.

Time to recreate it!

Since the sourcefile was missing I had to get creative with remaking this design; the last thing we would want to do is tell the client “sorry, we don’t have it anymore”.

I simply dropped it into Illustrator, image traced the design, outlined it, and increased the border to get rid of the thin strokes the original had. After that, the print was ready to go!

Here’s the original design that printed poorly…

what it should look like

And the improved version!