Commercial and Lighted Signs
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News
Atlona Updates Online Training Portal and Webinar Schedule
San Jose, California-based Atlona, a Panduit company and a global provider of audio-visual distribution solutions to a variety of industries,…
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News
Universal Lighting Announces Distribution Agreement with New Jersey’s Ascend
Nashville, Tennessee-based LED lighting company Universal Lighting Technologies announces a partnership with Manville, New Jersey-based Ascend Sales & Marketing LLC.…
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Features
The Fundamentals of Sign Financing
Like any other construction project, companies must sometimes finance their bigger sign projects. The key is for sign shops to…
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Features
Effective Halo-Lit Channel Letters
Throughout the years, halos have readily been used in artwork and descriptions to portray reverence. The notion of a glow—a…
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Features
Print Shops Doing Their Part
While many businesses are dealing with unusual hours, limited operations, and shutdowns, print shops shift their focus and do their…
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Education
SEG Takes the Backlit Market by Storm
Silicone edge graphics, better known as SEG, is a printed fabric graphic with a thin silicone beading sewn neatly around the…
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Features
Salt Water Sanity
All of you “Trenches” readers who are hands-on sign makers and self-employed business people as I am, know how hard…
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Education
The ABCs of Channel Letters
Children have an innate fascination with the alphabet. They learn to craft words-spelling, enunciating, writing-and develop a familiarity with diction.…
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Features
Chat with Matt: An Interview with Brother Zank
This month’s interview is with Brother Zank, owner of Custom Craftsman Signs in Sevierville, Tennessee. What was your path to…
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Education
Shop Talk: Better Installs, Better Profits
No matter how good one is at designing and making signs, the rubber doesn’t really meet the road until those…
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Education
Restoring Painted Signs
Sign restoration work almost always requires a traditional painted approach to make the worn-out sign look new again. Let’s take…
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Wasted Time Blues (and Pinks)
It was back during the cold war, when I was a boy growing up in the sixties, that I remember…
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Features
Featured Project: Christie Lights Up Florida Community with its Technology
Cypress, California-based audio-visual company Christie participated in an event earlier this summer in Alys Beach, Florida, called Digital Graffiti, in which…
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Features
Featured Project: Fluid Sound Updates Casino’s Signage Network
San Diego-based Fluid Sound, a commercial audio/visual company, announces its recent work with the Barona Casino & Resort in Lakeside,…
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Building Your Impressions: More Than Signs, Part Four
Over the last decade, my company transformed from sign maker to building impressions and grew into added lines of products,…
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Education
Video of the Week: He Found His Calling on the Wall
This week’s video of the week features Jason Coatney of Brooklyn’s Colossal Media, in a video put together by the…
