Alan,
I don't agree.
Ever seen a diver's sticker?
This is easily recognizable at high speed.... symbols are easier to
recognize than words.
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bosch <arbosch@RA.ROCKWELL.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: List sticker (and so on, and so forth)...

>Being a contributor to the contest, my views may be slightly skewed.
>
>What I was striving for was something that could be recognized, if not seen
>outright.  The black lettering on a white background on the sticker I
>designed should facilitate easy recognition from a distance.  None of the
>stickers submitted, IMHO, including mine, is going to be read by anyone
>driving their bus towards another bus, with a closing speed approaching 130
>mph.  The only way that can be achieved is to plaster a sticker across the
>top edge of the windshield, from A-pillar to A-pillar, akin to the ones
>that say "No Fear", "Dodge", or (ugh!!) "Camaro".  Those are more
>billboards than stickers.
>
>All the stickers submitted will allow for easy recognition of you, as a
>list member, in a stopped bus.  I mean, who amongst us hasn't parked next
>to another bus in a parking lot that has plenty of other spaces, or
>resulted in walking a mile into the mall?  Or stopped to look at another
>bus that's for sale, just because it's another bus?  Or been to one event
>or another and wondered if the five or six buses you walk past to the gate
>are someone you know?  After all, we all wave to each other anyway, right?
>And we don't now know if they're list members or not.
>
>Just idle ramblings...
>
>Alan Bosch
>& Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
>Rochester, NY
>
>(I am NOT a graphic designer - nor do I play one on TV)
>