[Arachnyd]

Originally Posted by heinzd01

I'm trying to design a car show display for my '76 Camaro. I have no artistic design skills but I managed to draft what is shown in the picture below.

Anyone want to help me with some constructive criticism?

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Below are links showing other car's displays.
http://www.carshowdisplay.com/index_files/Page364.htm
http://www.carshowdisplay.com/index_files/Page376.htm

It certainly works compared to what I’ve seen at most shows for guys that do them themselves, so I think its spot on… I think you should feel free to go with it!

however since you asked for it, here are my thoughts:


From a “whats shared perspective”
-photo selection is good, although I’d sneak in a WIP picture of the back, maybe at the expense of the upper right. The upper right two could easily be swopped for something else simply because of the fact that that’s what your car looks like now, and so people see your actual car. If you don’t want a WIP picture of the back, then even a current picture of the back, or the opposite of the middle right?

Information wise:
Infos good, although I personally like when people have the tiny section that personalizes it… like where you say when and why you bought it, when, how and why you restored it, and any personal details. May not be appropriate for the specific car shows your going to, but I like it.

From a design perspective:
Of course if you did the whole thing on a computer I’d have a lot of recommendations, but since this is done with hard copy, it’s a little more difficult.

Are those pictures printed out on blue backboard? If so, I’d cut them out more so that the blue shows behind all of them… or put white on the backdrop so white shows through everywhere. Id also align the photos on the left to have equal spacing as those on the right.

if you went with a digital design I’d fade the images into eachother and fill a full border, or do a solid black border around each one with an interior fade, and then maybe a halo of your car behind the listed statistics. Color wise I’d probably stick to the colors of the car… Black, silver, maybe orange (engine block)- or in other words I’d scrap the blue.