Blowin' Smoke . . . How to get a Barbeque Logo
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From: Caraway JR, Chip Subject: BBQLogos.com Greetings Patrick, I would like to see if you would do a logo for our BBQ team called “Porkin’ Ain’t Easy” from Wildwood, MO. I looked on your site and feel that you would be the perfect one to do it based on your excellent portfolio. I just am a little unsure of how to go about ordering, as you just go to PayPal and send $200 (how then do you know we are the ones that sent the money?) . . . If you can determine that it is us that sent the money, I will go ahead and make the payment and get the ball rollin’ . . . Jus’ le’me know if “Checkout” is all I need to do, as you usually have something in a “Cart” (like a description of work, etc.) before you checkout . . . Thanks for your time; jus’ le’me know . . . Laters, Chip Caraway He had been out of town, but he answered when he got back in on Sunday . . . Hey Chip, Usually when I received notice of payment it lists your name or e-mail so that's how I know who sends the money. You can just put the name of the team in the space next to the amount. You can also pay once the logo is complete if that would make you feel more comfortable. Did you have any specific ideas you'd like to see in your logo? If so, let me know your thoughts and I'll begin with a rough pencil sketch. Thanks. Let me know if you have any other questions Patrick From: Caraway JR, Chip Greetings Patrick, I just sent the payment . . . Paid By Leslie M Caraway Below is what our initial concept is, along with a crude, rough-draft drawing. Placement of items is up to you, as we just ask for each of the concept items to be placed artistically to produce a well balanced picture. Below are our thoughts and rough draft: Logo for Porkin' Ain't Easy; Wildwood, MO There is a Big Muscular-ish Arms Hawg sitting in a lounge chair under a beach umbrella. He has a Cigar in one hand, and a thumbs-up on the other one, and a shit-eatin’ grin on his face, because life is swell, he is doin’ what he loves to do, and that is BBQ-in’. He is winking one eye, because there is a pretty little piglet showin' him some of the best lookin' ribs on a platter that he has ever seen; he also is winkin' because, as she bends over to show him the ribs, he is also showin' a great shot of her ample breasteses bulging out her tight form-fitting low-cut shirt ;-) The other piglet is bending over checkin the temerature gauge on the Backwoods Smoker (Party) and the gauge reads Hot! . . . probably because as she is bending over to look at the gauge, her Daisy Duke shorts are riding up to display a luscious pork butt and nice legs, along with the curly tail. The piglet with the tray of ribs has black hair shoulder length and kinda wavy, whereby the temperature piglet has blonde hair shoulder length and more straight, but curled under; both piglets need not be skinny, but need to look like desirable, feminine, piglets with ample assets. The smoker is letting out some smoke that can be used as a backdrop for the words "Porkin' Ain't Easy" in a light arc over the top of the picture, whereby the bottom of the picture will have Wildwood, MO in an opposite arc to hopefully form the picture into an oval-ish scene. Though the piglets are scurrying about helpin' (actually cooking what the He-Hawg is about to get a trophy for, for all his hard work), the focus is the Big Daddy Hawg and that just by lookin' at him, folks will know that Porkin' Ain't Easy . . .
Laters, Chip Caraway From: Patrick Carlson Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 12:46 PM To: Caraway JR, Chip Subject: Re: Logo for Porkin' Ain't Easy; Wildwood, MO Here's a sketch. Let me know what you think so far Patrick From: Caraway JR, Chip “. . . the ball is headed for the upper deck . . . it is a Grande Slam Homerun!” Patrick, you took the text below and captured everything we were looking for in the logo and it looks GREAT! Even the facial features capture what we wanted to convey. Michael Curry said that you would be easy to work with, and would do good work, as you did his logo for Curr Dawg Smokers, which is why I had copied him on some of our correspondence. I am absolutely amazed with the quality of the rough draft sketch. I say as far as the picture you sent, it is just what we want for the characters; if you could let us see the wording around it, I believe we are ready to head to finished product. Kudo’s on your talent . . . Laters, Chip Caraway From: Patrick Carlson See what you think of this Patrick From: Caraway JR, Chip We are currently looking for Silk-Screen printers that can do multiple colors; hopefully, at least 12-color . . . the color picture appears to have 15 colors; 13 colors + Black + White (As well as can be discerned from a .jpg). Have you heard of any silk-screen printers that either you, or any of your clients may have used, that would have the capability of more than 8 colors . . . You can find plenty of the ones that have 8 color, but I would wish for more colors, as your Logo would ROCK, as is . . . . Jus’ checkin’ . . . as apparently, the number of colors for silk screening would matter for shirts . . . Jus’ let me know, if you have heard of any Good Reports of shirt folk who do more than 8 colors, I would be mucho appreciativo . . . Jus’ le’me know. Thanx for all your help. Chip Caraway
From: Patrick Carlson The design actually has 8 colors (if you count white) Any shade of a color counts as the same color. For example, any grey shade will count as black. There is a guy I do a lot of work for. His name is James and he's out of Enterprise, AL enterprisetshirt at centurytel.net He runs a screenprinting place called Enterprise Tshirts. He's a good guy but I'm not sure how he does his colors or his pricing But it wouldn't hurt to make contact with him and ask. Just tell him I sent you Patrick From: Caraway JR, Chip Greetings James, I got your contact information from Patrick Carlson, with bbqlogos.com who designed us a great logo, and we wanted to get a quality silk-screen printer to do about 150-ish Assorted size and color T-shirts, about 25 Aprons, and 25 sweatshirt material hood-ie jackets. I was looking for a company to be able to print in as many colors as Patrick had made it, as it really looks nice; however, when I looked at each distinct color (including white), I came up with 15 colors; however, when talking with Patrick about the colors, and difficulties we were having finding silk screeners who do more than 8, he said that the coloring of the design used only 8 colors, albeit different shades of those 8 colors (see email with picture below). I would like to know what you think about the ability to silk-screen (including white) on different color shirts (ie. is it something you could do?). Also, if there is a website that you could point me to so I can look at different T-shirt colors, qualities (hopefully someone you have done business with before), or if you offer shirts, where I could look at yours, it would help in getting the ball rolling. Feel free to email me, or call me on the below-listed phone number; I work in cubes, so I will need to find an empty conference room for a discussion. I appreciate any Devine Guidance you could provide. Laters, Chip Caraway From: Enterprise T-Shirts, Inc. You can go to our website and check out catalog for tshirt colors. Let me look more closely at this artwork before I give you a price on t's and aprons and hoodies. Website is www.enterprisetshirts.com. Thanks, James From: Enterprise T-Shirts, Inc. Okay, howz about this. We change the pig with her butt facing us to a redhead, the pig serving the ribs to a blonde. The guy pig's feet will be black instead of dark grey. I think with those minor changes, we can print you some nice looking shirts. Do you want full size aprons, smaller full size, or just the 3 pocket server type aprons? What color shirts would you want? JC From: Caraway JR, Chip Patrick, Could the ribs, Porkin’ Ain’t Easy words, and the shirt on the Pig in the chair, and the shorts on the Piglett lookin’ at the smoker, be made Mississippi State Maroon? That would actually cut out the green. And James would that adversely affect the printing process? The Pigletts have the hair color, as they are representative of our wives (less the tails and pig noses). The dark gray on the piglett’s hair can be changed to black too that would completely get rid of the dark gray, in fact Mike’s wife said didn’t want it any shade of gray ;-) [it’s a female thing] . . . If there is a specific reason for the hair change suggestion (ie. color bleed, etc.), jus’ le’me know and I can discuss it with Mike and the wives. I have copied Mike on this email as well as he would have say as well on colors . . . MIKE PLEASE COMMENT ON THE BELOW ITEMS: As far as the aprons, I would like about 15 full size, 15 smaller full size . . .. I think we are close . . . Chip Caraway From: Enterprise T-Shirts, Inc. changing green to maroon is no problem, black hair for grey no problem, keeping blonde piglet, no problem. JC From: Caraway JR, Chip James said no problems on the color changes. Also, should I make another payment to get you to take a copy of the pig in the chair and place him in a smaller circular logo for the pocket area of a shirt (maybe embroider on polos) exactly the same smile, cigar in hand, and thumbs up, maroon shirt, only just without the chair, and just from the chest up (kinda like he is just standing doing the gestures). The upper Arch of this logo being the same kind of letters as the other logo, and having Wildwood, MO at the bottom to kind of frame it out. Jus’ le’me know, as I would be more than happy to do so . . . Laters, Chip Caraway From: Patrick Carlson How's this?
From: Caraway JR, Chip Greetings Patrick, We have a winner . . . Mike likes it too . . . the only thing I saw in the attached JPG is the male’s hoofs are still gray, they can be black. As far as I am concerned, we are ready for the final files, as we consider this pig kik’d, I would like for James to give a final look-see to be sure that he would accept the coloring, etc. . . . Once he gives his seal of approval, as you have worked with him before, if you could provide the files like James would need, I have Photoshop, so if I could get some in that format as well; I think we are off to working on the shirts with James now. When we get our website finalized, we would like to throw a bbqlogos.com link on our page www.paebbq.com and give you the praise for the awesome logos. This went smoother than I ever imagined, and we have some great logos to go on the shirts and stuff . .. . Let me know if you need further funds for the additional shirt front logo. If you could take a look at the attached logo, and give your final seal of approval on design, as you will be working with the design; please reply to all that everything looks OK, or any changes that you would recommend, due to the printing process (ie. color bleeding, etc.). If you are OK with it, Patrick has our approval to provide you the files in the format that you will need for your process. As you see there are 2 separate logos; the one with just the pig by himself, is a shirt pocket logo for the front pocket position of the shirts, the other is the large logo for the back of the shirt. We do understand that it is separate setups, and will be an additional cost. Mike was OK with the color and size breakdown, and we would be ready to get the pricing for the items, printing, and setup. I will look to you as well for a recommendation from you as to the brand/type of T-Shirt that you, as a printer, have had the best successes with (no color bleed, wears/washes well), as I am no T-Shirt expert. If you could point me to a brand/type of shirt, I will identify the color wanted by actual # after discussion with Mike and the wives. Thank you for all of y’all’z help . . . Laters, Chip Caraway If you made it to this point, congratulations . . . within a week, we had boxes of shirts, aprons, hoodies, etc. sitting on our front porch, a banner made, and all in time for the 2008 Ballwin BBQ Bash (see picture below). Both Patrick and James worked so well together and with us, that it makes one wonder why it can't be this easy everywhere. In a time where service is always the first thing out the window with businesses, it was comforting to still see that it is alive and well with Patrick and James and we enjoyed working with them.
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