It was a bit of a strange one, because the client wanted to change practically everything, but at the same time wanted to retain as much of the old as possible. A serious nod to the history of the group.
We worked with them and produced a fully custom certificate to meet their specific needs.
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The client wanted to retain the graphic of the tiger and the snake.
We did offer some high resolution vector alternatives, although generally similar in style they did not gain approval.
They only had a low resolution image which would not convert to a vector image in our graphics package. In the end we broke the image apart, then converted it, heavily edited it and stitched it all back together before making it a transparency and adding it as a watermark.
There was probably about six hours work alone and the image comprises of 2898 individual objects.
The group's hanko was in a sort of a seal script katakana. Although within the hanko and other parts of the certificate KD had been translated into katakana (which doesn't really work), we asked what the KD stood for, which was originally their first dojo, the Kihaku dojo. They also wanted to add Shotokan, so the hanko reads "Kihaku Dojo Sento Shotokan", and is written now all in kanji.
We translate the recipients name and add the grade into the main text.
The text has changed to a standard Japanese Shotokan format.
At the request of the group the imperial calendar date was removed at the "proof" stage.
The reason for this is that the group does not generally hold centralised gradings, the chief instructor may move from club to club, and only grade one or two participants at anyone time.
They chose just to have the date within the English text. This also allowed the Chief Instructor to prepare a batch of certificates, even if examination dates had not been finalised, or may have been arranged over a two to three month period.
As we regularly say, custom is what we do best. Quite a few hours on the project, probably a bit of a "loss leader", but we are equally happy working with groups that may only order a handful of certificates a year, compared to large groups that may have thirty to fifty members grading multiple times a year.
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