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I need information on designing at massive scale

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I am working on a massive project—a 100 foot by 24 foot wall hanging that will be printed in smaller sections. I’ll be working with the printer from the start to avoid borking the project, but I want some advice from anyone else who has done this. I know that I can’t do something like this without specialized software, so would it make sense to develop the sections as individual Illustrator or Indesign files and create a large Indesign document (to scale, anyway) for the entire wall and place the files into that to put the whole thing together for comps? Or should I just do one scale piece and then break it up when I print? Also, are there any good books on graphics at this sort of scale?

Define massive? For offset or large format? Highway signs or building signs?

Define massive?

That was the first sentence of my original post. But the forum changed the measurement marks to apostrophes :)

Highway signs or building signs?

I’m working on an indoor wall hanging for a large convention. It will be printed using some large-format specialty printer (I’m going after those details tomorrow AM) in the aforementioned sections and assembled on-site.

I’ve done billboards in Illustrator and Photoshop before. We’re talking the large 14’x48’ bad boys. (Sorry couldn’t resist.) I usually work at 10% of final size. The final output for the dealers I print

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