Jeff Wooten The annual Lollapalooza music festival celebrated its twentieth anniversary this past August in Chicago’s Grant Park with a mega-watt weekend line-up of acts that included the Foo Fighters, Eminem, Coldplay, and others. It also featured quite a line-up of electrifying signage, including brand-new seven-and-a-half-foot-tall illuminated letters. This letter set sign was used to identify the 15,000-capacity “Perry’s...
Ashley BrayThis past summer, the brand-new Stroh Center landed on Bowling Green State University’s (BGSU) campus in Ohio. The athletic facility houses the Falcons men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball teams and also serves as a venue for concerts and campus events. The complex also sports some winning signage of its own thanks to Toledo Sign Company. The shop...
More than 220 sign company personnel have participated in ISA’s industry-leading mobile crane operator safety certification training program in 2011. The training program is designed to help the industry meet certification requirements from OSHA. Immediately following each three-day mobile crane operator safety certification training, participants undergo both written and practical certification testing conducted by the National Commission for...
Agfa Graphics has announced today that its wide format digital printing experts will be on-hand for the company’s free Open House Technology Demos coming up in November. The latest in wide format UV inkjet printing systems, inks, software and more will be demonstrated during the open house event being held at the company’s demo facility at 4005 Royal...
Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world’s largest International Tradeshow and Conference dedicated exclusively to digital signage, interactive technology, and digital out-of-home networks (DOOH), announces that the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association (DPAA) will partner in and assist in programming its annual Advertising Summit to be held in Las Vegas on Tuesday, March 6, 2012. The DPB Advertising Summit will...
ILFORD has hired Gabriel Calvo as sales manager. Calvo will work closely with the extensive sales channels throughout Latin America, including local dealers and commercial printers, to support the ILFORD OMNIJET product range in the region. Most recently, Calvo worked as business development manager, Latin America, for Mitsubishi Imaging (MPM), Inc. iSys – The Imaging Systems Group Inc. has...
A variety of Avery Dennison digital media products were recently used to wrap, brand, and decorate vehicles and buildings to help transform the athletic facility at Ingraham High School, in Seattle, Washington, in the second episode of the ESPN original series Rise Up. Rise Up tells the story of four communities coming together to renovate their respective local high...
GRAPH EXPO, held September 11-14 in Chicago, had a notable increase in attendance from 2010 to this year. Among the total 20,451 participants, which included exhibitors and attendees, 13,426 actual verified attendee/buyers came to the show—an increase of 7 percent from 2010. There was also an uptick in participation of high-level decision-makers from among 8,026 unique buyer companies—up 12...
