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Police Uniform Patch Artwork ~ Design Update
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Police Uniform Patch Artwork ~ Design Update
— Updating an older image to a newer, "cutting edge" look. —
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The new Chief of Police wanted the department’s uniform patch updated and wanted
a badge design similar to the Police Officer’s Association Badge, particularly with the
new eagle top.
This patch redesign required that the city seal be recreated from existing, old
artwork. Below is the best copy of the original they could provide. To do the
recreation required doing substantial research to identify certain elements in the
supplied image that could not be properly recreated without knowing what the
original object was and what it actually looked like. Seals often contain elements
from history which can make locating images a challenge.
Once the seal had been recreated it was incorporated into the patch shape and color
matched. The badge redesign simply changed a few elements on the Police
Association badge.
A side benefit to this work was that the police department would now have clean and
clear artwork to use in print materials such as business cards and other media.
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Related Article: Computer Screen Images vs. Printed Images
— knowing the differences between web page art and printed artwork
Original artwork of the city seal.
Various photos of the area from
the city website, Chamber of
Commerce and elswhere fill in
the gaps in detail missing from
the original
New city seal as redrawn in Xara vector software,
which I highly recommend.
Incorporating the city seal back into the patch design was fairly straight forward.
some elements did differ because the redesign remained more faithful to the
actual scaling and proportion of certain elements to the actual item.
The Next Step — Rework the badge
Using the Police Association badge the
official version simply required creating
new scrolls to contain the required
information.
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