What I'd like to know is...

[LAS14]

.... how they managed to get a perfect design for the huge "Black Lives Matter" statement on 16th St (Ave?) by 3 in the morning. It looked perfect. Have you ever tried to make a poster? Don't you always run out of room for the last word? Isn't the bottom of your S all scrunched up because the top is too big? Aren't the letters squished in some places and spread out in others? How'd they do that???

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[demmiblue]

1. Ugh. Go away. n/t

[doc03]

2. The crop circle people did it. nt

[demmiblue]

3. Kevin Bacon told me it was the Greys.

It wasn't a direct correspondence, mind you.

[doc03]

6. That would be cool to do some crop circled with BLM

[judeling]

4. A square, a tape measure, and a chaulk line

its easy

[RandiFan1290]

5. Deep State Magic!!111

[lunasun]

7. Working together they did good . I even mess up spacial size on greeting cards! Posters? Help

Link to tweet

?s=21

[sop]

8. Next January Biden's Inauguration Committee people can invite marching bands to troll Trump,

spelling out all kinds of "nasty" messages to the prison-bound POS as they march past the presidential reviewing stand. Bands from HBCs will be given prime spots in the parade.

[unitedwethrive]

9. Clearly you have no idea how to make a good poster...

You start by measuring the available space, then determine how many letters are in the phrase you want to write. Each letter has a certain standard width, which you use to spread out the letters on the available space. It's not that hard.

Like anything else in life, pre-planning is the key.

[lastlib]

10. The right software makes it easy.

[LAS14]

11. Does the software give the result in feet? Or do you have to do that yourself? nt

[lastlib]

12. I think AutoCAD could do it to large scale.....

I haven't worked with that in a lo-o-o-onng time.

[Ptah]

14. How do they make billboards?

[LAS14]

16. I dunno, but they've got a lot more than a few hours and they do it all the time. nt

[csziggy]

18. Set up the design then tile the image

I've done with letter sized paper to make a big sign and have researched (but not actually done it) to "tile" an image for web pages so that different parts of an image can link to different URLs.

With software it is easy, but it can be done effectively in an analog method by hand. In my high school art class way before home computers one student wanted to paint a 4'x8' mural (the largest piece of material he could get was a full sheet of wallboard). He sketched his design on an artist's tablet, divided it into sections, then transferred the sketch to the same layout of sections on the piece of wallboard. He got the proportions right and his project turned out great.

[LAS14]

19. Thanks! Lots of fascinating replies. I'm glad I asked! nt

[fierywoman]

13. I also wondered how they did it. Thanks to all for the answers!

[NBachers]

15. They started at the last letter and then worked backwards to the first one. Problem solved!

Also, they hired Democrats and kept the republicans away.

[pecosbob]

17. Never worked in a print shop or anywhere that does graphic work?

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Count all the letters from each line, divide by two, start in the middle...don't make mistakes.

[LAS14]

20. "don't make mistakes." Ah! There's the rub! :-)

[pecosbob]

21. Measure twice, cut once!

You can always make it shorter, but not longer.

[Brother Buzz]

22. But Boss, Boss, I cut it six times and it's still to short

[LAS14]

23. How come I haven't heard that before!! Definitely worth repeating to hubby. nt

[Brother Buzz]

24. The STEM boys have come of age - I suspect that was straight from a laptop to GPS

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Bummer they didn't us any STEAM boy, like my son, because I really don't like the font they ran with

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