Format: Digital download (no shipping)
Design size: 18″ × 50″ full-size artwork
Availability: Instant download after checkout
Product type: Vector cut files + print & paint reference

Preview images are watermarked and reduced. Purchased downloads are full resolution.

What's in the package

• Full-color finished artwork — Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
• Black & white line art cut file — Illustrator (.ai)
• Line art cut file — EPS (.eps), ready for plotters & lasers
• Judge Taft cigar label art — full-size JPG pictorial, print it or paint from it (shown above, also included)
• Proof PDF for a quick look before you cut

About this design

Judge Taft Cigars is Gary Godby’s latest design in the Rawson & Evans ornamental glass tradition — the richly scrolled, hand-lettered cigar signage that once filled American shop windows. Drawn at a full 18″ × 50″, it carries the portrait medallion, classical columns, and laurel work of the original 19th-century pieces. The finished color version and the outline cut files are shown side by side above — and the cigar label art at the center of the design is included as its own full-size file.

Every package is production-ready: clean vector geometry for vinyl plotters and lasers, plus a separate full-size pictorial you can print or paint from by hand. Like most of Gary’s pieces, it includes a high-resolution historical reference scan of the period artwork that inspired it.

About the artist

Gary Godby has worked in the sign trade for over 50 years, beginning in 1974. Part of the Letterheads movement since the 1985 Naples, Florida meet, he spent 16 years in the Walt Disney Company Sign and Pictorial Department and continues as a signage design consultant for Walt Disney Imagineering. From Godby Studios in Blairsville, Georgia, his work spans 23k water and oil gilding, reverse glass painting, glue chipping, traditional hand-lettering, dimensional signage, and faux and aged finishes.