February 24, 2003 - SGA and LUB Banner Making

The Student Government Association and the Lares Union Board produced large hanging banners for the Lares Cafeteria to advertise upcoming events.

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  A boombox blasted out hit tunes as the banner making session lasted most of the day.

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  Banner-making is a complicated process that took over a year to perfect. First, an overhead projector transparency is produced.

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  Next, the banner is hung on the wall, with the projector displaying the design on top of the sheet.

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  As you can see here, the next step involves tracing the design onto the sheet.

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  Here, the tracing is complete.

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  Later, the banner is taken off the wall and is painted with acrylic paints based on the colors from the original transparency.

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  The process allows students to produce banners that look like they were professionally designed but require only a computer and inkjet printer.