A helicopter is scheduled to remove the Wells Fargo signage at the 1 Independent building in Jacksonville, Florida’s downtown. Formerly known as the Wells Fargo Center, the skyscraper is losing the massive letters as a result of the bank declining to replace the sign’s lighting and deciding to reduce its presence in the city, according to the Jacksonville Daily...
Print industry leader Reuben Silva passed away late last month at the age of 60. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, Silva had served as Vice President of Sales, Inkjet, North America for Agfa since 2020.
The large-format printer company made the following statement on LinkedIn:
“It is with profound sadness that we share the news of the untimely passing of our dear...
All signs are pointing to a continued rise in front-facing digital signage worldwide. A new report published by Verified Market Research reveals the global digital out-of-home signage market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.02% from 2024 to 2031.
The report states that the digital OOH signage market is valued at $21.16 billion in 2024 and is expected to...
This feature was originally published in Sign Builder Illustrated‘s July 2024 edition.
Many sign shops can print a wall wrap or fabricate channel letters in house with their own tools. Digital signage calls for more collaboration. Such installations often require cooperation from the client and support from the supplier to get the job done. Just ask Sign Effectz.
The Milwaukee-based sign shop installed...
National Signs recently closed its 50,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Houston. On May 24, the full-service sign company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy before motioning to move to Chapter 7—also known as liquidation bankruptcy—on June 28.
An official announcement has not been released, but the sign industry has been showing support for National Signs’ former employees on LinkedIn. We have not...
This feature was originally published in Sign Builder Illustrated's June 2024 edition.
Two years and counting. Nine hundred permanent, individual signs. More than 12,700 square feet of digitally printed vinyl. Nearly four tons of 1/8-inch aluminum. If you laid out all the signs that Signarama Louisville Downtown in Kentucky has created for a local airport end-to-end, it would be over...
According to a recent study published by Towards Packaging and Precedence Statistics, the global printed signage market is predicted to increase from $40.23 billion in 2023 to $48.41 billion by 2033—a more than $8 billion jump over 10 years. The study cites the rising demand for branding solutions as a key growth driver for the print display sector.
In this...
Roland DGA announced that it’s new VersaOBJECT™ CO-i Series printers are now available in North America. The two UV-LED flatbed inkjet printers are capable of printing directly onto substrates and objects up to 9.5 inches in height and weighing up to 640 pounds.
The CO-i Series flatbeds replace the previously offered CO Series devices within the Roland DG product line....
Daktronics has released DakClassroom, an event and game-day production guide for educators to build programs using a curriculum aligned with career and technical education. The company’s goal is to equip students with technical terminology to help them understand the equipment they are working with in a hands-on capacity at the high school level.
“The benefits of DakClassroom are realized at...
OUTFRONT Media Inc. and Bell Media Inc. have closed the sale of OUTFRONT Media's Canadian business to Bell Media for a purchase price of C$410 million in cash, subject to certain purchase price adjustments.
"The sale of our Canadian business illustrates the inherent value of our out-of-home assets,” says Jeremy Male, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of OUTFRONT Media. “It...
