Date:         Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:33:28 -0600
Reply-To:     arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM
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From:         Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
Subject:      List sticker (and so on, and so forth)...
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Being a contributor to the contest, my views may be slightly skewed.

What I was striving for was something that could be recognized, if not seen
outright.  The black lettering on a white background on the sticker I
designed should facilitate easy recognition from a distance.  None of the
stickers submitted, IMHO, including mine, is going to be read by anyone
driving their bus towards another bus, with a closing speed approaching 130
mph.  The only way that can be achieved is to plaster a sticker across the
top edge of the windshield, from A-pillar to A-pillar, akin to the ones
that say "No Fear", "Dodge", or (ugh!!) "Camaro".  Those are more
billboards than stickers.

All the stickers submitted will allow for easy recognition of you, as a
list member, in a stopped bus.  I mean, who amongst us hasn't parked next
to another bus in a parking lot that has plenty of other spaces, or
resulted in walking a mile into the mall?  Or stopped to look at another
bus that's for sale, just because it's another bus?  Or been to one event
or another and wondered if the five or six buses you walk past to the gate
are someone you know?  After all, we all wave to each other anyway, right?
And we don't now know if they're list members or not.

Just idle ramblings...

Alan Bosch
& Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
Rochester, NY

(I am NOT a graphic designer - nor do I play one on TV)