Commercial and Lighted Signs
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Features
Video of the Week: Annual Contest Shows Off the Best in Animated 3D Signage
This week’s Video of the Week was sent into SDG by Gary Johnson, the owner of The Great American Sign…
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Education
Shop Talk: Laser Logo Techniques
For this job, a local assisted living facility asked us to do several projects for them, mostly outdoor and indoor…
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Education
Monument Signs with Mechanical Options
It’s Wednesday morning; it’s very early, still dark and cold outside. At the first stop sign of your morning commute,…
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Education
Principles of Storefront Design
In this article we take a look at designing complete storefronts as opposed to reacting to piecemeal requests like, “How…
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Education
Video of the Week: Strickler Signs Gives Mid-Atlantic Mall a New Calling Card
This week’s Video of the Week comes to us from W.J. Strickler Signs in New Oxford, Pennsylvania. This full-service sign…
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Features
The Value of Pi
At 37, Joey Gerhart has already been bending neon for almost 20 years. That’s in a trade that some people…
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Education
Sublimated Outdoor Signage: Offering a realistic pitch
Don’t oversell the attributes of products that are placed outdoors because they will fade over time. Ask your sublimation partner/distributor…
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In the Trenches: The Widowmaker
I remember cranking that hand crank and swinging the old ladder boom from over the front of the truck to…
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Features
On the Job: Adding Art to the Mix
An electric sign company in Broomfield, Colorado, wanted bigger jobs and to diversity its product mix, so it jumped at…
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Chat with Matt: Rick Williams
This month’s guest is Rick Williams, sign maker and editorial contributor to this magazine for more than 30 years. Q:…
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Education
Designing Signs: It’s All About the Base
It’s 9 p.m. on a Saturday and you find yourself struggling to come up with the finishing touches on a…
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Education
Hand Lettering: A How-To for Tricky Letters
For all the hand letterers out there, are there certain letters that you just find cringe-worthy? That give you a…
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Education
Video of the Week: Keeping Neon Alive in Oakland
This week’s video of the week comes to us from the Bay Area, where Shawna Peterson has been plying her…
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News
In Memory of Bill Riedel: 1928-2018
*Please click images below to enlarge He helped paint the American Sign Museum’s “Signs on Main Street.” Bill Riedel, the…
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Education
Use LED Lighting with Sandcarved Signage
If a metal frame is used to hold a sandcarved glass sign, it offers the opportunity of LED lighting. With…
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Education
The Technical Side of Sign Design: Faster Design Turn-Around Time
“We can’t build this!” is the phrase I heard repeatedly for one year while working at a mid-sized commercial sign…
