Commercial and Lighted Signs
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Education
Try This: Sublimate Signage and Outdoor Artwork
Art and photography can be taken outdoors by sublimating durable panels that are made for weather and direct sunlight. This…
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Education
Video of the Week: Hand-Painting in the Mount Rushmore State
This week’s video of the week comes to us from the town of Hot Springs, South Dakota, where Curt Lout…
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Education
Boxed Illumination
Signage in a box – the venerable cabinet sign. In a completely elementary sense, that’s essentially what users are receiving…
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In the Trenches: Mother May I?
I remember that day because the wind was blowing so hard and trying to damage the light gauge 4 x…
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The Long View: Safety First
Over the years, I’ve spoken with countless shop owners and production managers from a range of sign shops, grand-format print…
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Education
The Joy of Technical Sign Murals
Here are four extremely challenging projects that were each conceived by a graphic designer that expected the final product to…
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What is the difference between cast, reverse channel, and precision-cut lettering?
These lettering methods can be used interchangeably, but it depends on the overall visual effect you want to achieve. Casting…
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Features
Video of the Week: Irish Artist Keeps it Real
This week’s video of the week comes to us all the way from Northern Ireland, where a street artist that…
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Education
Video of the Week: How Neon Signs Are Made
This week’s video of the week comes to us via the Canadian-made television show “How It’s Made,” which explains how…
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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…
