Reviving Archives

There are times that ideas for projects come into my head, but there is no real purpose or tangible need for the resulting outcome. For example, I was asked to come up with a sticker that Victory could hand out at the Alaska State Fair. Sounded simple enough.

During the process, there were many concepts drawn up and sketched out. But in the end, the project was scrapped due to the fair having issues with stickers being stuck everywhere by fair goers. Victory and other venders were urged not to give away stickers. So... the project was shelved, and the file was deleted during a hard drive swap.

...but some sketches still remained.

Since that project, my skills in photoshop have advanced... as well as skills in Googling any task that I don't know how to do. So with the discovery of one of these sketches, I decided to finally make one of the stickers a reality... well, digitally. So here is the end result.

The finished project.

For some reason, I wanted to go with the classic circular camp patch/sticker design. With a mountain design already done for the prayer cards made up when support raising started up, the rest was easy.

To add a little age to the vintage design, the picture was put through some software to give it the look of one of those old water activated adhesive stickers put on a window (the kind I hated putting on model cars & planes).

The vintage-worn-out look.

Hopefully these will be printed out, or redone to be used at Victory. The Alaska State Fair wouldn't like to see these put allover everything. But to see these stickers emblazoned on some youth or adult's belongings (i.e. bumpers, luggage/trunks, guitar cases, Nalgene bottles, etc.)... would be priceless.


- Daryl J. Howard