Next Day Sign closed on Friday
Posted By Next Day Sign on July 1, 2009
Just in case anybody needed to know, we are closed this Friday in observance of Independence Day. Have a great weekend!
Giant cryptological tool built by Mythbusters’ for sale
Posted By Next Day Sign on June 24, 2009
This is not exactly a sign, but it uses a lot of the same construction methods we use here in the shop - it’s a giant code wheel designed and built by Mythbusters’ Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage. They used MDF board and Cintra for the wheel sections and black cut vinyl for the letters. I’m impressed with the effort it probably took to line everything up properly.
Adam and Jamie are now auctioning the beast off with proceeds benefitting the Electronic Freedom Foundation (a very worthy cause).
There’s a video of the thing in action here.
(via Boing Boing)
Increase your business with ‘Rolling Billboards’
Posted By Next Day Sign on June 10, 2009
One of the cheapest forms of advertising available (if not the cheapest) is vehicle advertising. According to this post at Marketing Minefield, when you consider the cost per impression, vehicle advertising is nearly fifty times cheaper per impression than direct mail. You don’t even have to invest in costly full vehicle wraps - simply putting the name of your business and some contact information can make all the difference. Depending on your business, a single sale made through vehicle advertising can pay for the entire cost of vehicle lettering.
Next Day Sign offers full-service vehicle lettering, from design to installation - from motorcycles to semi-trucks. Vehicle lettering is a great way to attract attention to your business during the warmer months. (Plus, Meg likes to be outside…)
Upcoming summer sales!
Posted By Next Day Sign on June 10, 2009
We have two sales waiting in the wings - we will be offering a discounted golf sign package for those planning golf outings over the next few months, and in July we’ll be rolling out a sale on vinyl banners…more on these soon…
Coming soon - laser engraving!
Posted By Next Day Sign on June 10, 2009
Meg attended the Sign Business and Digital Graphics show in Indianapolis last week and purchased a laser engraver to supplement our existing rotary engraver. She assures me that we can now engrave my leather jacket (still wondering what I’d put on there, actually) - but the upshot is that we can expand our business to include all kinds of stuff we used to outsource.
More to come after we receive the unit!
Seth Godin talk includes lots of bad signage
Posted By Next Day Sign on April 21, 2009
While it is worth checking out on its own merits, Seth Godin’s talk on broken-ness (watch it - you’ll see what he means) includes lots of examples of bad signs.
Recent work: Plexiglass wall graphics
Posted By Next Day Sign on April 21, 2009
By way of updating a previous ‘work-in-progress’ post, here’s the finished product of the plexi wall signs we mentioned a while back. The photos don’t really do the installation justice, but needless to say we’re very happy with them.
Recent Work: Car lettering
Posted By Next Day Sign on April 21, 2009
We recently did some vinyl lettering on one of our client’s vehicles, a Porsche racing vehicle. We will eventually be adding some striping on both sides and around the front, but the numbers turned out nicely - a simple yellow and black vinyl application.
Work in progress: Plexiglass Wall Graphics
Posted By Next Day Sign on March 27, 2009
While some of our jobs are quick, one-day turnaround affairs, others require meticulous attention - like this set of plexiglass signs we are producing for a local doctor’s office. While most people don’t give much thought to the amount of care and detail that goes into producing signs like these, the end result is usually a reward in and of itself.
I wish I could claim some credit for these, but Meg has handled the job from start to finish - except for the design work, by local designer Paul Neff (who did a bang-up job, as the signs themselves attest). This is all vinyl lettering applied to matte-finish plexi. The rear side of the plexi is covered in etch vinyl hexagons, while the rest of the pieces go on the front. Below are some photos of the assembly process - the finished pieces will be affixed to the wall with small metal standoffs to help provide shadowing for the letters from the overhead lights.
Front-side copy, after weeding - awaiting masking tape.
Close-up of weeded vinyl.
More pictures after the jump…