Perfection?

If you are involved in design in any way shape or form you will analyse and judge everything you see, it's natural. Would you have used that layout, chosen a different colour or expressed your message with that typeface? Today I treated Percy (my car) to a Mini Valet in a nearby village and while the staff washed away I was looking at there handmade signs informing of prices and services. There is something quite satisfying about seeing a homemade sign. It has not been scrutinised from every angle, looking at the leading, alignment and positioning. It is more than likely that they looked at what materials they had, who had the most legible writing and what tins of paint they had knocking around. The funniest thing is that we could spend hours trying to create a look as simple as this. It did make me a smile that you could see rubbed out ruler lines used to help make the copy look as neat as possible given the tools available.


* Two other things, firstly the Mini Valet at £10 is amazing, my car looks brand new. Secondly why does it always happen to rain when I have finally got round to washing the car?