We do not typically do a lot of customization to our vehicles, let alone our travel trailer. We’ve had our GeoPro several months and the only mods we’ve done are to make it more liveable – bed extension, table reduction, sink counter extension. I know many people add a lot to their RVs to make them more homey. But so far, we’ve keep ours pretty stock primarily cause we like the way it looks. BUT one thing we truly enjoy & appreciate is when RV’ers add a logo or exterior sticker that uniquely identifies them.

I dabbled in Graphic Design in college and enjoy logo design and fonts. So I thought I’d design a logo for Howie our 20ft GeoPro G19RD. Starting with a few Adobe Stock vector elements, I came up with a these ideas.

Adobe Stock provides vector illustrations, usually in .ai format, so I subscribed to Adobe Illustrator in order to customize the stock art. An Adobe Stock subscription is required separately and allows you to download 20 pieces of vector art per month. Vector art is preferable so you can scale the image, edit & add elements, and produce print-ready artwork.

I found wrapping the text easier to do in Adobe Photoshop so I converted the .ai to .pdf and imported it. Choosing the right font so it’s legible from several yards away is important. Once typed in and positioned in Photoshop, browsing fonts will change the text in the logo dynamically so it’s easy to see which works best.

Printing – so doing a sunburst graphic requires a continuous tone printer. The popular (on Facebook’s RV groups) Etsy decal designer Jenny of JadeDesign couldn’t do it. She does wonderful monochrome RV-wide decals and could do the two or three-color versions. But we wanted the continuous tone version to go along with our GeoPro graphic.
So google-searching ‘vinyl decals for rv’, I ordered from two vendors: BestOfSigns.com and StickerApp. BestOfSigns.com was 1/2 the price of StickerApp. Both had easy to use online logo upload portals and order forms. BestOfSigns was the first to complete our order and shipped in one week, ordered Aug 18, arrived Aug 30 from India. StickerApp was ordered on the same day, Aug 18 and arrived today Sep 2 from Sweden.
They both turned out great but the BestOfSigns UV ink is matte finished. The StickerApp is glossy so the colors are more vibrant and font legibility is better. I do not know if I could have had both as glossy. On the order page for BestOfSigns, you picked glossy, matte, or uv. I did not see an option for glossy+uv. But the BestOfSigns decal came with instructions and a squeegee for applying the decal. StickerApp only had the decals.