When designing my signs, I wanted them to project a similar effect to the cafe signs of Imperial Lane and the gigantic neon sign in Lowbrow. I was sure on the material being LED, as it is less expensive than neon.

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I purposefully wanted to make the scale of the sign small as opposed to larger – giving the same simple effect that Imperial Lane had. I also made the decision to not write a name of my cafe/bar in the sign as I thought that it would take away from the colourful light installation. I decided on making two signs – ‘Cafe’ and ‘Bar’, coloured red LED lighting, very simple looking. The method of designing it was fairly simple, just extruding text connected with a border in Rhino, then adding LED emissive material to the extruded solid with V-Ray. The tutorial linked helped me with the bolding of the text.