Back in 1974 I had a summer job, just me, white cardboard and what turned out to be hundreds of sheets of Letraset.
The multi-storey Provincial and County courthouse was due to open in September of that year and the interior signage was not going to be available. So I was hired to make up temporary signs, that included Floor directories, door signs, court signs, directional signs and some emergency signage. Got it done and months later the permanent signs started to arrive.
Things I learned:
When using large letters don’t move the sheet a hair while transferring a letter.
New fresh sheets are the best!
Government signs use a lot of O’s and R’s which can quickly disappear from a sheet making it junk.
Always have somebody else proof read a sign, misspelling in public view in such a place just is unacceptable.
The local distributor of Letraset must have had a good mark-up on the expensive sheets they seemed really, really happy to see me ordering more.
These days it would have been a much shorter duration job with computer graphics and large format printers, it was a good tool for the time though.
Still remembering it with a smile all this time after, but I have never shaken of my fear of embarrassing Miss Pelling. (-:
