Vol. 1 THE ULTI~LATE DESIGN PROJECT Cars & Stripes Forever by Ken Ballard It was a relatively slow day at my design office in West IA, 1~ntil I :~eceived a call from Connie Fern at Porschop. Suddenly things got interesting, Connie had just bought a racecar--. an updated ’69 Targa with a 934 body--and she wanted me to create a graphic design theme for the car. I’m a graphic designer, and I’m called on to do all sorts of projects--my latest was packaging for a cookie--but I’d never done a car, It’s one thing to design on a flat piece of paper, but how do you transfer the design to a threedimensional car? Well here’s how. Establish the design overlaying a photo of the car~ then make a slide of that picture, Use a slide projector to beam the image onto the side of the car. Draw lines by hand onto the car, following the shadow image from the projector. Do the rear and front of the car free hand. Then mask the lines and paint. Remove the tape and voila,~ The owners Judd Boykin and Connie Fern both agree the car is faster with the new striping. . or at least the car looks faste~, and it ~ttracts a lot of attention on the ~rack,
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No. 1
February 1981