Site Survey Project - #15 Oliver Pratt

Source Photo - An ale house in town we do a lot of work for. This is a corner of the building they were considering placing a sign. This was my way of noting an existing light that could potentially be utilized to highlight a new sign.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #14 Brothers Fall

Source Photo - This was the side of a building where the client had already built a support frame for a banner that was destroyed by wind. We provided a more rigid and lasting solution for their billboard. I remember that it was autumn when I shot this and somehow the textures of this wall reflect that seasonal sense to me.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Squirrel!!!

Squirrel!!!, originally uploaded by Mr & Mrs Speeed.

We interrupt this regularly scheduled site survey project stream to bring you this important photo of my boy being blessed by the squirrel equivalent of Totoro.

Site Survey Project - #13 Bed Red Sky

Source Photo - Another cabinet silhouetted against a sky with power running to it in the air. The face had fallen out of this one and the client confided in me the person who installed it was a crack head.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #12 Caribbean

Source Photo - A Caribbean style restaurant where we were looking at placing a set of channel letters. Hence the use of Caribbean colors on this one.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #11 Bonded Sky

This week most of these will be looking up a bit skyward.

Source Photo - An old exiting cabinet that had power run to it up in the air. Always wary of these old beasts. Wires silhouetted across a sky are always nice to look at though they make me a little nervous.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #10 Ruxton Nation

Source Photo - An existing sign cornice that we may have needed to match for another sign to go in the same neighborhood. Don't remember what exactly Obama was doing on the front page of the newspaper that day, but this was shortly after the election. There was snow on the ground and layered on top of everything.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #9 Saint Paca

Source Photo - A semi exterior stone wall where the client, a historic church site, wished to place a system of dedication plaques.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #8 SOM POV

Source Photo - A certain well known medical school in town needed to have a lot of sidelights at the entrance to rooms frosted out so people could not see in but light could still pass through. The rooms also had a lot of windows on one wall that directly faced an apartment complex. They wanted to have those windows also treated so that the students could see out but the residents of the apartments would not be unnerved to look across the way and see the students working on cadavers. We treated the sidelights but I don't know what they ended up doing for those windows.

Looking through multiple portals at once: This was looking through the sidelight, which had the dot pattern on part of the glass, through the room and out the window to the windows of the apartment across the way.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #7 Sutton

Been out of town for a few days in Tulsa with family, hence the lack of posts. We're back after a long day of traveling through airports so here is the next in the series.

Source Photo - This is on the roof of a high rise apartment building. They were considering placing their logo on the side of this mechanical systems structure. It would be visible from miles around. Ownership in the property changed and interest waned.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #6 Tavern

Source Photo - One of the taverns in town that was looking to update their old existing sign.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #5 Aliceanna

Source Photo - This is part of a custom sign we provided. I had to go back and resurvey it as the client had changed their logo and wanted to see about modifying or replacing this sign to reflect the new brand. This was one of the rare cases where the intent of the original sign was to be rough and worn rather than shiny and new.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #4 Tic Tan

Source Photo - A big interior illuminated cabinet that the client was considering retrofitting with LEDs. A costly proposition that was never implemented.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Site Survey Project - #3 Washington

Source Photo - Some vandals made off with the sign that was supported by this post (and it's mate not shown.) The posts had become loose over time making it easy to yank the sign out and make off with it. I imagine it's decor in some teenagers room right now. The purpose of this photo was to note the nature and location of the routs on the post so a new panel could be made to fit.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

The Site Survey Project #2 - Wyndhurst

Here is no. 2 in the SSP series. This image was of a roof where we were contemplating placing a sign on a custom fabricated bracket to fit the pitch of the roof and hold the sign vertically. In the end the signs ended up being placed where the old existing signs were, elsewhere on the building. As is often the case this original idea was a bit of a dead end. But I don't consider such things a waste of time, rather a valuable step in figuring out the final solution. Often dead ends contain hidden doors to a more desirable route.

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The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company. For more details about this project see my original post about it here.

Introducing the Site Survey Project - #1 Alterwood

SSP - Alterwood, originally uploaded by Mr & Mrs Speeed.

The Site Survey Project is a series of graphic images created from photographs I took during site surveys for my work at Chesapeake Sign Company.

Original photos were purely utilitarian photos to record some detail of an existing sign or site to be repaired or replaced. No thought was given to artistic composition at the time. I came up with this idea and went back through old site survey photos and picked ones that seemed to have some compositional interest. I then vectorized them through a color trace process using only 3 or 4 colors. Made some tweaks to color sometimes adding a couple more colors by using different stroke and fill colors on an object.

Something about taking a non artistic photo of an object designed for graphic communication that is in decay, then reducing that photo to a few colors and turning it into it's own graphic and then presenting it as a piece of art says something about the cyclic and transient nature of communication and design. Though I'm not sure what.

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This image is from a section of an sandblasted sign that was falling apart due to poor construction. A delivery person had hit the previous sign and offered to replace it. He did a very poor job making the replacement and it was not long before we were called in to replace it properly.