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So I was thinking about the future MYP presentation that would be in the 07 year. And just showcasing a website a lone would be very boring and such. Then it hit me, why not create a poster of the Mascot and the Logo to put along with it. It was a handy deal I could settle with.

Here is what it looked like:

I asked my mom if she could drop me off at Kinkos to go in and check what sizes we could get the poster printed at, and decided to go with the 18×24 inches purely because it was pretty big, and it seemed very “decent” in price compared to the others only at around $50 after it was laminated and mounted.

The lady said that I could get it printed the next day ( Sunday ) if I went home and sent it online from their print website.

Fine by me, I went back home, loaded up Adobe Illustrator and played around with the finished mascot and logo that was given to me by the artist. Decided to go with a background sprite from the finished website layout and I resized it from Adobe Photoshop to preserve as much quality as possible.

Finally resized it to the required 18×24 inches, went through the online wizard to upload my .ai file, and with some specific instructions as well to make sure that they didn’t mess anything up. It was a fairly painless process, took about 10-15 minutes and it was easy to understand, even though I had no idea what I was doing.

It told me to call the store in about 30 minutes after I sent in the order to make sure that hey received it, just for verification purposes, just re-assuring that there was not a problem accessing the file that I sent them.

I went off to work on some other projects while I waited for the time to past by. Got distracted to the point where almost an hour passed by, I called them finally when I got the number and I was put on hold. The joy… the agony.

Not only did I get put on hold which was bad enough, but twice, for about 40 minutes even. I eventually hung up, and better hoped that they got it.