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Vehicle Wrap of the Day: Even Trailers Get the Blues

Great Big Signs helps Hadden Sayers tour in style

Published

10 years ago

May 13, 2014

Steve Aust Signs of the Times May 2014 Issue

Most full-time musicians don’t have the luxury of lounging around in mansions, lazily scribbling lyrics or playing around with chord progressions. They’re humping it, 200 or more nights of the year on the road, while trying to implement online and social-media promotion to grab attention.

Hadden Sayers, a Texas-born blues musician who migrated to Athens, OH, embodies the yeoman troubadour. And, thanks to cool vehicle graphics, he does so with style. He and his band bought a 1962 Airstream trailer, christened it the Rolling Soul Emporium, and hired an assemblage of Texas graphics providers to deck it out for the long haul.

Devon Hanna, a New Braunfels, TX-based graphic designer, developed the graphics with CorelDRAW X6 software. Great Big Signs (Kyle, TX) printed the wrap with 3M Controltac air-release media, which it printed on an Epson Stylus Pro GS 6000 with UltraChrome GS inks. The shop fabricated cut, red-vinyl lettering, and Salyers’ website and Facebook URLs, using a Mimaki CG-130 FX2 cutting plotter. Steven Clements, owner of Dallas-based Graphic Installation Solutions assisted with the Rolling Soul Emporium’s installation.

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