Three factors dominate the effectiveness of your sign: visibility, legibility and readability. VISIBILITY – the purpose of having a sign is so that the intended audience notices the sign and reads the message. Four factors affect visibility: shape, size, color and location. An effective sign makes the best use of all four factors. LEGIBILITY – [...]
Signs America just completed a sign program for the Alameda Boys & Girls Club’s new facility in Alameda, California. The signage for this project included everything from ADA Restroom and Permanent Space signs, to Way-finding and Exterior Dimensional Graphics. The signage was conceived to match aluminum architectural elements, so Signs America found a solution involving [...]
To celebrate our friend’s 35th year in business, we designed and made a sign for his seafood restaurant, Pacific Cafe, located in Kentfield, California. The sign is 12″ high X 24″ long, and is a digital print laminated to foam core. To make the sign more authentic looking, we contour cut around the outer edge [...]
The Mission Valley ROP Kennedy Tech project in Fremont, California required an interesting solution for Room ID Signs. Along with having a custom background, the architect requested the signage information be justified on each sign to the side facing the door jamb. The design for this type of solution was the easy part (see shop [...]
OVERVIEW OF ADA Signage in public areas of all buildings is subject to compliance with federal, state and local code requirements, mandating the use of certain symbols, messages and graphic standards. To provide adequate signage for all users, including persons with disabilities, the Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), first published in the Federal Register [...]
Digital Prints – Easy Remove Vinyl. To celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the first transatlantic flight from San Francisco to China, the San Francisco International Airport’s Museum wished to acknowledge the challenging feat by displaying the photo of the China Clipper as a mural 15′ X 15′. There were a few problems to [...]
Here is a monument sign that we did for Abraham Lincoln High School here in San Francisco. The letters are recessed into the concrete.
UPDATE: NEW SIGNS REQUIRED FOR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS AND MULTI-UNIT RESIDENCES San Francisco Ordinance Prohibits Smoking in Enclosed Areas Effective January 10, 2010, the San Francisco Health Code was amended to prohibit smoking in certain enclosed areas, certain unenclosed areas and sports stadiums. The ordinance will have an impact on all commercial buildings and multi-unit residences [...]
This is a sidewalk sign or a-frame that we did for Heliotrope a body and skin care retail store in the Castro in San Francisco, CA. The a-frame is a 3/4″ thick MDO painted with a digital print graphics 2′ x 4′.
