Nebraska DMV adjusts sower for second license plate design
The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles has released a second standard license plate design after the first attempt was criticized as inaccurate and sexually suggestive.
The department announced Wednesday that it has finalized an adjustment to the design for the new plates, which will be issued starting in 2017.
Gov. Pete Ricketts' spokesman Taylor Gage says graphic designers at the Department of Administrative Services helped the DMV adjust the design to more accurately portray the sower that tops Nebraska's Capitol building.
The department stopped production on the first design in April after Omaha artist Jeff Heldt said he submitted the design 2002 as part of a state contest. Heldt's version of the Sower was based off a similar statue atop a bell tower in Michigan.