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BRYAN MILLS & SON RAW “” To enter the New Millennium I decided the time was right to produce computer generated vinyl writing. Bryan Mills & Son offering a traditional sign writing service for nearly 20 years. Our work took us far and wide, every jobs was a new challenge and something different. In 1995 Dad passed away at the ripe old age of 68, one of the last things he said to me was when, whilst in his hospital bed, I showed him a job that had to be done involving painting some pictures of daffodils on the side of a Transit Van, he said to me “Get on with it,… just get on with it”. And with that in mind I got on with it. From then on until the year 2000 I carried on doing traditional sign writing just as we always had. To enter the New Millennium I decided the time was right to produce computer generated vinyl writing. More and more potential customers were leasing their vehicles and the leasing companies didn’t want painted writing on them. So Bryan Mills & Son’s “Millennium Leap” was to provide a new service for our customers old and new. We could now take their sketches, letterheads or business cards and with the use of our computer and a digital camera show customers how their details would appear on their vans, lorries, signs or shop fascias. It was a steep learning curve but I have never looked back. Combining the new technology with the old skills of design and layout I was able to offer customers a service second to non. I always take great pride in any job I do and a good test is to stand back and look at the finished product and ask my self “if it were mine would I be pleased with it”. The old skills still have a place in an ever more computerised world. Honours Boards are still handwritten and guilded, just as my father would have done. Many pub signs are still hand painted, as are curtained sided vehicles and banners, not to mention historical vehicles being restored. That’s not to say that I don’t still look for ways of producing great pieces of work at cost effective prices, within the last couple of years I have invested in a large format digital printer that can reproduce fantastic pictures or logos to make really eye catching designs on signs or vehicles. So I think that my Dad would be pleased to know that the skills he learnt before WW2 and passed onto me are still being used today along side and complimenting state of the art technology. For More details: email: lee@signartists.com Tel: 020 8 397 973 www.signartists.com 95 Ruxley Lane, West Ewell, Epsom Surrey millionimpossible.com 73 http://www.signartists.com http://www.millionimpossible.com

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