Window Sticker Contest

[Gary Lewis]

LOL!  Yes, you are absolutely right.  "The destination", singular, is the goal.  (I was actually a fairly good student of English, and am a big fan of the Oxford comma.  But my use of English isn't the best.)

So far the poll says:

Bullnosebible: 6

Garysgaragemahal: 1

Other: 1

That could all change, but that's the trend at the moment.

[kramttocs]

Gary Lewis wrote

You have several good points.  First, on the spelling of the URL both garysgaragemahal and bullnoseenthusiats are hard to spell.  Trust me, I've spelled the former many, many times and people struggle with it.  And I've now typed the latter several times and the double "e" doesn't seem right - but is.  So bullnosebible is much easier.

Very true! I still think it's a good URL to own for any future use but typing it out is rough.
Starts to look like 'bull no seen thusiats' :)

Casting my vote now.

[Vic Roma]

When I first read the tagline that this is the site for “Ford Pickups” that’s what I thought too. Broncos of this era share the same DNA, so should be included in the sticker.

+1 for “Trucks” over “Pickups“

[ratdude747]

Agreed with the URL and Tagline changes. I've seen some have already made versions like that of mine, but I personally prefer my original font choice, so here's new versions of my original submissions:

1980-1981:



Sticker_V1.svg

For Technical reasons, the 1982-1986 Files are in another post (filenames too similar, when uploaded the filenames condense to the same thing )

[ratdude747]

1982-1986 (my favorite, personally):



Sticker_V1.svg

[Vic Roma]

The 82-86 grille looks better, as the oval outline adds greater symbolism to the image.

However the text needs rearranging.

The Bullnose Bible
[Grille image]
The world’s primary... (sentence case?)
www.bullnosebible.com

The font is good, needs to have heft, just like these trucks.

[ratdude747]

Nitpick with the re-arrangement : This wastes rectangular decal/sticker area (Read: more $), unless I make the Font so massive it's bigger than the graphic (which would make it huge, also more $). Also, I think it throws the balance off... the current layout is nice and rectangular, which is not only space efficient, to me, also looks good.

The tagline is capitalized since it's a title (or in this case, a subtitle). Urls aren't case sensiticve, so I capitalized it in a way to make it more clear what the url is.

[Vic Roma]

The repetition looks off.

Having “The Bullnose Bible: BullnoseBible.com” all on one line doesn’t look right.

What about omitting the title and just use the domain name?

BullnoseBible.com
[82-86 grille]
The Primary...

Full justify the domain name.
Maybe reduce the weight of the grille, ie make the lines a little thinner?

[ratdude747]

Good point. Before, with the old URL it made sense.

Here's my solution... which I think is my best looking batch yet:



Sticker_80-81_V1.svg



Sticker_82-86_V1.svg

[kramttocs]

Was thinking the same with the URL and name. This one looks great! Would gladly put one on my back glass

[Vic Roma]

By golly, I think you’ve nailed it!

1x 82-86, thanks.

[Gary Lewis]

I'm loving it!  But I have no sense of "style", so I'll hide and watch.

Do we need another vote?  Might some be thinking about the profile or another one?  How to we get to one design and know the majority has agreed?

[Vic Roma]

Just one more nitpick, can you round the corners on the inside edges of the grille, like the corners on the outer edges. It mimics the trucks and makes the image look smoother.

[Frank Wyatt]

1 80-81 sticker please!

[ratdude747]

As I'm coming to discover, not easily (at least in Inkscape). There is an option to round stroke corners on the outside, but not the inside. Probably for technical reasons relating to how vector images are constructed.

I'll look into it more... so far every "how to do it" issue I've ran into I've found a workaround. The question is how big of a PITA would such be. It's a fine enough detail, if it's not easily fixed, I'm personally OK with letting go. Not to say there isn't a fix... just not one that's a handful of mouse clicks.

[Angelo Voltura]

I definitely like the URL as the name.

[CliftonK]

So, the grilles don't speak to me at all.  They don't make me think Bullnose.  It's just a part I know goes on one.  It's that corner profile of the top of the hood and the grill and the bumper and the headlight openings that scream bullnose.  How to capture just that though, this isn't just a truck forum, everyone wouldn't want just a bronco either.  What I always pictured for the bullnose bible was something like I'm going to post at the end of this, please forgive it.  It's just a proof of concept that took way to long to mock up using a sticker I stole off the internet.  But the idea is simply a book laying on it's side so you can read the spine and it also looks like the front cab portion of a bullnose.  Only enough body parts that it could apply to any bullnose.  Now, mine is super rough, maybe someone with some talent could try their hand at it?  Now it looks a little silly with the back floating with no wheel.  Maybe just have the fender profile with no wheels in the front and have that flow back into the binding?  Would love to see someone draw this so it looks like a book with bullnose profile.

[reamer]

And I have a 24" vinyl plotter/cutter at home. Making the Flareside stripes for the 2-tone original paint configurations.

[Gary Lewis]

Ron - Are you saying you could make the window sticker?

Clifton - It took a while for it to click with me, and I reread your post a couple of times.  I think what threw me off was that the book's perspective seems off.  It gets thicker to the rear.  Let's see what other have to say.

All - We need to have a new poll with the various options and make a decision.  But there have been several iterations of the front view, so please let me know which ones are candidates and should be in the poll.

[reamer]

Sure, and I can even make the marker lenses orange....@-color like "my" Ford Trucks sticker....