Just got licensed. I was reading about the requirements for what your stamp looks like and other than the content and size, it seems like an open ball game. Has anyone out there seen a stamp that is anything other than the ones being sold by the rubber stamp company. Is it bad form to be tongue in cheek with what your stamp layout is?
From the Calilfornia Architects Board website:
Q: Is there a required layout within the circular design for the terms and information required in an architect's stamp?
A: No. However, the stamp must be readily legible and all information must be contained within the 1" - 2" diameter circle.
joshuacarrell
Jan 3, 08 7:22 pm
For example:
treekiller
Jan 3, 08 9:28 pm
congrats mr. cookie!
joshuacarrell
Jan 3, 08 10:42 pm
Fogey,
Well noted, one down for letting the rubber stamp company determine the layout.
Although to be perfectly honest, in my current office, the stamp means anything from "I am a trustworthy, solid professional" to "This is the first time I have seen this and it looks alright, and if there are problems they will probably catch it in plancheck..."
My example is extreme, but honestly, does everyone just buy the default and not "monkey" with the stamp. I mean the law gives you practically cart blanche to lay it out how you want, even to include symbols, so why not?
j
knock
Jan 3, 08 11:05 pm
I have "monkeyed with the stamp" ... not overwhelmingly, but enough for the desired effect. Its amazing what you can do with just font, effects, and graphics on your stamp that give it the sense of legitimacy, but works with the rest of your graphics and associated drawings. Illustrator is an amazing thing, isn't it? Why send your stuff to a stamp company when you can just place the vector file right into your CAD drawings? Does anyone wet stamp anymore?
liberty bell
Jan 3, 08 11:27 pm
In some jurisdictions one is required to both stamp and seal the drawings, so while not a wet stamp it *is* a physical act. I wonder if one is allowed to monkey with the seal layout?
For both my stamps I've gone default, but think designing one of your own - making sure you think it will still look quality in 60 years - is a great idea.
And Mr. joshcookie: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! Great job, and doesn't it feel wonderful?
joshuacarrell
Jan 3, 08 11:35 pm
@knock,
Illustrator is fun, and the electronic stamp I am working on does exactly what you are talking about, match font and line styles so that the stamp looks like a conscious part of the drawing... not like the decomposing stamp I posted here; that one is a joke- the outer circle actually reads "please don't sue me" over and over again.
Thanks LB,
It does feel great to finally be here, where I actually have to make stupid little decisions about what I want my stamp to look like :)
j
liberty bell
Jan 3, 08 11:39 pm
"please don't sue me", that's hilarious.
And not a bad subliminal idea....
el jeffe
Jan 3, 08 11:41 pm
congrats cookie!
FWIW, i still wet stamp quite often, for a variety of reasons.
i picked a style and went with it - i kinda like the banality of their standard offerings...
Orhan Ayyüce
Jan 3, 08 11:41 pm
CONGRATULATIONS joshcookie!
Apurimac
Jan 4, 08 12:07 am
LOL josh, and congrats!
T.KULL Architect
Jul 17, 23 7:20 pm
here's one of mine
b3tadine[sutures]
Jul 18, 23 6:36 pm
D000d, 15 years old thread, and look at you, dropping someone else's stamp. You a bad, bad man.
t a z
Jul 19, 23 9:40 am
At the risk of feeding the troll bot, I kind of want to watch Krull now.
Josh Mings
Jul 19, 23 10:53 am
The font used on that stamp is extremely triggering
citizen
Jul 19, 23 5:05 pm
Here's an architect's stamp for you.
Not a Californian but a (North) Carolinian, the first African-American MIT graduate and pioneering architect in his own right.
Just got licensed. I was reading about the requirements for what your stamp looks like and other than the content and size, it seems like an open ball game. Has anyone out there seen a stamp that is anything other than the ones being sold by the rubber stamp company. Is it bad form to be tongue in cheek with what your stamp layout is?
From the Calilfornia Architects Board website:
Q: Is there a required layout within the circular design for the terms and information required in an architect's stamp?
A: No. However, the stamp must be readily legible and all information must be contained within the 1" - 2" diameter circle.
For example:
congrats mr. cookie!
Fogey,
Well noted, one down for letting the rubber stamp company determine the layout.
Although to be perfectly honest, in my current office, the stamp means anything from "I am a trustworthy, solid professional" to "This is the first time I have seen this and it looks alright, and if there are problems they will probably catch it in plancheck..."
My example is extreme, but honestly, does everyone just buy the default and not "monkey" with the stamp. I mean the law gives you practically cart blanche to lay it out how you want, even to include symbols, so why not?
j
I have "monkeyed with the stamp" ... not overwhelmingly, but enough for the desired effect. Its amazing what you can do with just font, effects, and graphics on your stamp that give it the sense of legitimacy, but works with the rest of your graphics and associated drawings. Illustrator is an amazing thing, isn't it? Why send your stuff to a stamp company when you can just place the vector file right into your CAD drawings? Does anyone wet stamp anymore?
In some jurisdictions one is required to both stamp and seal the drawings, so while not a wet stamp it *is* a physical act. I wonder if one is allowed to monkey with the seal layout?
For both my stamps I've gone default, but think designing one of your own - making sure you think it will still look quality in 60 years - is a great idea.
And Mr. joshcookie: CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!! Great job, and doesn't it feel wonderful?
@knock,
Illustrator is fun, and the electronic stamp I am working on does exactly what you are talking about, match font and line styles so that the stamp looks like a conscious part of the drawing... not like the decomposing stamp I posted here; that one is a joke- the outer circle actually reads "please don't sue me" over and over again.
Thanks LB,
It does feel great to finally be here, where I actually have to make stupid little decisions about what I want my stamp to look like :)
j
"please don't sue me", that's hilarious.
And not a bad subliminal idea....
congrats cookie!
FWIW, i still wet stamp quite often, for a variety of reasons.
i picked a style and went with it - i kinda like the banality of their standard offerings...
CONGRATULATIONS joshcookie!
LOL josh, and congrats!
here's one of mine
D000d, 15 years old thread, and look at you, dropping someone else's stamp. You a bad, bad man.
At the risk of feeding the troll bot, I kind of want to watch Krull now.
The font used on that stamp is extremely triggering
Here's an architect's stamp for you.
Not a Californian but a (North) Carolinian, the first African-American MIT graduate and pioneering architect in his own right.