I’m pretty busy trying to make my new Christmas card for this year so I’ll have to keep this post brief – but I had a sighting and I feel like I have to share!
I stopped to get gas today and was shocked to find one of the little paper pop-up fire trucks I designed sitting there on the counter at the gas station! The attendant was also duly “thrilled.”
It mailed flat in a little folder and you’d simply push the bottom to pop it up into a dimensional fire truck that can be seen in the round. I’ve done a few of these vehicles for the same client but this one is the most recent.
It’s kind of strange to see your work out of context in the wild. I noticed it sitting there near an array of different mints at the cash register while I was paying for gas. At first I squinted at it and thought about how similar this toy truck was to a paper fire truck I made a few months ago but as I got closer to it, I realized that it was also made of paper. “How dare somebody make such a similar paper fire tru- Oh. That’s mine!” Anyway, I’m sure the attendant had her finger on a “weirdo alarm” button behind the counter just in case but I took a photo of it anyway and she smiled. As I left.
How nice is that!
This is akin to seeing your name in bright lights Rob! That must have made you walk on clouds the whole day! Even funnier that she thought you were a weirdo. :D