Spotswood Centennial Celebration

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When I heard that my town was going to be celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008, I joined the commission that was organized to plan the event. After hearing about their basic plans for fundraising, I offered to give them a professional logo at no cost to them to use on all the materials.

Usage of the logo on promotional materials, signage and even a brick walkway proved a runaway success and provided $65,000 in funds to provide a free celebration for 3300 of the town residents.

Seen here are a few samples of the work that was done using my designs:

Using a turn of the century typeface and an old photograph of Spotswood that showed that the streets were once lined with gas lamps, I developed an identity for the town that is still being used today.

My goal for these street banners was to bring the gas lamps back to Spotswood, which I think they did nicely. Too bad the telephone poles weren't wrought iron.

A close up of one of the street banners on its pole.

A first for me, I designed an adaption of the logo that was carved from stone and placed at the center of a brick walkway at our municipal center. It will likely outlive me!

Another first for me was the offer from our local post office to commission a cancellation mark to be used at the celebratory event. These are the first two cancellations - you can see that the one on top has a faded area as it was the first impression made from the stamp. I also designed two different postcards that patrons could purchase and have canceled.