IdentIty | By Jeff Wooten
pect the unexpected,” states Mattingly, “but he did not have a clue!”
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Using a triangle bit in their Dremel tool, Xpressive trained themselves on the fly and just started carving the wood grain effect into the hDU backer panel. the result ended up looking exactly like they wanted it.
Xpressive graphiX took down the entire old sign and pole and built everything from scratch. Everyone at the shop worked hands-on in some sort—whether painting, molding, carving, sanding, etc. The entire sign is hand-carved out of fifteen-pound and eighteen-pound Precision Board HDU foam. Xpressive placed these pieces over a steel frame. Mattingly insisted on doing everything by hand (his shop’s hallmark) and refused to cut corners. “We just had to keep pushing ourselves: ‘Well that wood grain doesn’t work right, so let’s go deeper,’ or ‘This figure isn’t big enough so let’s go bigger,’” he says. This new sign is actually two duplicate signs sandwiched together. Consider the sign as layers: The background shape is
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