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Originally Posted by KTrain
From my understanding, 3M (the tape company) has the contract for producing the license plates for the province. They offered to design the plates for free. They were given instructions on what needed to be included on the plates and these are the three designs that made it through the committee process.
What jaydorn and I are trying to say, is that these unsolicited designs didn't have to go through the same design process as the three choices we have. They didn't have to meet the physical requirements of the license plate production (the mountain cut out). They ignored the removal of "Wild Rose Country" when 3M was told to remove it. They didn't have to get their designs approved by a committee of people with little to no design sense.
There are limitations to license place design. Cost is a huge limiting factor. Having a die cut plate is more expensive than the standard rectangle plate. Having stamped/raised lettering, as opposed to the digital print, raises the price as well. Could you imagine the outrage if the new plate design increased the cost our plates by millions a year? They're probably reducing the yearly costs of plate production significantly with the new plates.
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But then why couldn't they have listed the requirements of the plate, and held a contest or something?
Free designs - publicity for a large number of design firms. Less chance of something looking like garbage like the ones we have now.