May 2023 Digital Edition
Operating a sign shop can involve more than just producing signs and graphics, and the May 2023 digital edition of Sign Builder Illustrated presents a look at new products and new markets that you can address. Stories you’ll find in this month’s issue include a look at the many different ways that your sign shop can get involved with digital...
Vycom Recycling Program
Vycom® wrapped up another successful recycling program targeted specifically for exhibitors using rigid PVC and acrylic materials at the ISA International Sign Expo 2023, held in Las Vegas, April 12-14, 2023. Vycom collected 1,350 pounds of rigid PVC and acrylic scrap from the show floor. Designated collection bins were stationed in partner OEM booths including Canon, CET Color, Cutworx, Fluid...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t_blcVz8q8 Meet 2023 Top Young Sign Maker Silver Medalist Elizabeth Arenella Toynes, Co-Founder, Studio Dzo. After growing up with entrepreneurial parents, one a sign shop owner and the other an attorney, Toynes always knew she would have a great career, but she didn't envision it being in signage! She paid for her accounting degree by attaining a Class A Texas barber...
Additive Manufacturing
Massivit 3D Printing Technologies (TASE: MSVT), will unveil its Massivit 10000-G for the first time to the North American additive manufacturing market at Rapid + TCT in Chicago.  The system, that automates production for composite materials manufacturing, is designed to overcome recognized bottlenecks in mold production and to also provide a full range of large-scale custom manufacturing applications. Visitors to...
Selling Producing Partial Wraps
What do you do if you’re a print specialist with a limited staff but a high demand from potential clients in your area for vehicle wraps? Instead of telling customers you don’t have the availability to handle a full vehicle wrap project, you can always pivot toward selling and producing partial wraps. That’s the situation that Kathy and Derrick Stewart,...
2023 LightFair Innovation Award Winners
LightFair has announced its 2023 LightFair Innovation Award winners, previewing the most innovative products to be featured, May 23-25 at the Javits Center in New York. Winners were chosen in eleven categories along with four overall excellence distinctions: Most Innovative Product of the Year (TLS LumiPano by TLS Architectural Lighting), Technical Innovation (LynxEM Wireless Control by Magtech), Design Excellence (Neo...
Budget-conscious clients
Let’s face it: There are potential budget-conscious clients that your shop simply doesn’t need—the ones focused on price point alone and that don’t value the services you provide. These clients usually do nothing except suck up all your time and resources. We have all heard the promises: “Hook me up on this one, and we’ll give you ten more projects!”...
Mobile Marketing Brand Activation
Wisdom Natural Brand®, makers of SweetLeaf® and the country’s first stevia sweetener brand, has announced their continued partnership with BAM (Brand Activation Maximizer) event marketing and architects of the 2023 Kroger Health Racing program that SweetLeaf is participating in this season. BAM created a NASCAR-themed mobile marketing tour for Kroger Health and has connected SweetLeaf with the health-related program...
Orbus Nimlok Founder
Orbus Exhibit & Display Group®, a North American producer and manufacturer of visual communications solutions for tradeshows and events, retail environments, and corporate interiors, sadly announces the sudden death of Simon Perutz, an extraordinarily revered, respected, and honored founder of Nimlok, Orbus, and thirteen other exhibit and display companies around the globe. Simon died suddenly while in England with his...
The winning design in a Design-a-Bus-Wrap student art contest sponsored by Avery Dennison® Graphics Solutions was unveiled earlier this month. The contest was open to middle school and high school students living in or being schooled in Lake County, Ohio, during the 2022-23 school year. Kaitlin Barninger, a senior at Mentor High School, won first prize for her design entry...




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