Jay Bienvenu's designs and concepts

[jbnv]

Designs of my own creation. Some of these I posted earlier in the old Redesigning State Shields thread.


Mexico Federal Highway


Mississippi


Rhode Island #1 (based on the state license plate; I need to redo this in SVG)


Rhode Island #2


Oklahoma (I'm not a fan of the meat cleaver)

[jbnv]

Two concepts for Connecticut: A shape concept (really crude stretch) and a Minnesota-style concept.


Connecticut Shape Shield Concept by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr


Connecticut "Minnesota-Style" Shield Concept by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

[hotdogPi]

I don't like the CT state outline. Also, anything above 400 should be unsigned.

[paulthemapguy]

Hoping the Mississippi design has a wider 30×24 variant.  I like the idea of adding more Minnesota-style concepts to different states with boring squares/circles.

[jbnv]

I don't like the CT state outline.

It didn't come out anywhere nearly as well as I imagined it. I'm just getting into SVG design, so I will probably tweak it.

Also, anything above 400 should be unsigned.

It's just a number for demo purposes.

Hoping the Mississippi design has a wider 30×24 variant.

I haven't made wide variants for these designs yet. Personally, I'm not big on wide variants, and I think the concept with the Mississippi logo can work as a Texas-style layout without being wide. But that's just me.

I like the idea of adding more Minnesota-style concepts to different states with boring squares/circles.

I can crank out some of those.

[Alex]

Two concepts for Connecticut: A shape concept (really crude stretch) and a Minnesota-style concept.


Connecticut Shape Shield Concept by Jay Bienvenu, on Flickr

ctsignguy designed a similar style sign for Connecticut several years ago and formally pitched the idea to ConnDOT. While they did not use it, we did add his design as a message icon option for Connecticut Roads here on the forum:

[jbnv]

If I were put in charge of LaDOTD, I'd create an inventory of state, parish and city routes to report on road conditions and construction, allow public commentary and requests for work, etc. I would assign separate numbers for each segment of each route, so that the inventory is the roads themselves and not the "LA" route designations. (So long state highways would consist of several inventoried segments.)

Here is the shield to indicate those segments. Since Louisiana has a history of using the standard pentagon, I'm making use of it here. I'm assuming that the few parishes remaining that maintain their own numberings for parish roads would abandon those numberings for this system, so that there is no confusion.

The word "PARISH" would be replaced by "STATE" or "CITY" to indicate who is maintaining the road. I used the remaining space on the sign to add the program name and URL. I figure that once the program had been around for a while, the words "Louisiana Road Inventory" would be replaced with an appropriate logo.

(The colors are accidental; they converted improperly when I converted the file from SVG to PNG.)