The October 2022 issue of Sign Builder Illustrated puts the spotlight on graphics—large format projects, murals and exhibit displays, digital signage content, and an edge-of-your-seat high-rise installation. Plus we have details about successfully dealing with subjective sign codes and choosing the best business structure for your company.
PRINTING United Alliance, the most comprehensive member-based printing and graphic arts association in the U.S., has announced the recipients of its second annual Premier PRINT Awards program.
With seventy-one categories, the renowned international competition honors excellence in printed products spanning different segments and processes across the industry.
The comprehensive list of the sixty-three Best of Category, Printed Product of the Year,...
Questex’s Digital Signage Experience (DSE) unveiled the 2022 Digital Signage Experience Awards (DIZZIE) finalists. The awards program recognizes companies from around the world whose digital signage installations and campaigns challenge existing standards and drive the industry forward. The awards program is part of the Digital Signage Experience event taking place November 17-19, 2022 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
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The inaugural Rivers East Advanced Manufacturing Academy took place at Pitt Community College in Greenville, North Carolina on Friday, September 23. High school teachers from the county school systems in Beaufort, Bertie, Hertford, Hyde, Martin, and Pitt Counties met to learn more about Advanced Manufacturing careers available to their students. The teachers explored the Electrical Systems Technology, Industrial Systems...
Choosing the right business structure is an important first step when starting a company. It affects your taxes, your exposure to liability, and your relationship with partners. In the case of corporations, it also affects the amount of paperwork you are required to fill out.
Business structures fall into four basic categories: Sole Proprietorship; Partnership; Limited Liability Company (LLC); and...
A high school in Aurora, Illinois recently wanted to initiate a culture change at its campus and replace a long-standing mural that featured a more Hollywood-centric view of Native Americans with one presenting a more representative culture who actually lived where the school is located.
The end-result is a forty-five-foot-long mural display aptly named “On This Potawatomi Land…” and featuring...
The contemporary art gallery Gagosian is hosting a new exhibition by Swiss visual artist Urs Fischer, described as one of the most significant contemporary artists working today. The presentation, titled Denominator, opened September 9 at the gallery’s West 24th Street location in New York and will run through October 15.
“Denominator is a twelve-foot cube constructed from LED screens that...
As part of the new vision of its recent rebranding as Alludo, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite, the complete design solution for vector illustration, layout, photo editing, typography, and real-time collaboration, has introduced several updates that empower designers to be creative and produce stunning results more quickly.
Available with a subscription, these latest features and enhancements enable users to hone their skills...
“Once the material was in position, we had to lock it in quick,” says Adam Brown, president of Sign Effectz, Inc., in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “We didn’t want this big ‘kite’ just floating around up there.”
Brown is referencing two new rooftop 40-by-40-foot, 300-pound sign face graphics that his shop installed this past August in downtown Milwaukee. This project scope also...
Sign MFG Day 2022 will feature companies from around the world, all opening their manufacturing facilities to highlight careers in signs, graphics and visual communications on Friday, October 7.
Sign MFG Day is sponsored by the International Sign Association (ISA) in conjunction with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). It is held annually on the first Friday in October, though...
