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Shop Trucks

Send us a photo of your shop truck today at signcraft@signcraft. com or to SignCraft, P.O. Box 60031, Fort Myers, FL 33906. Read… Read More

Timber Signs

Manfred Didier and Marcus Goebel First featured: September/October 2008 Shop name: Timber Signs Shop size: 5000 sq. ft. Age: Manfred is 50; Marcus… Read More

Andy Stroh

First featured: March/April 2011 Shop name: ACS Graphics Shop size: 2000 sq. ft. Age: 46 Graphics equipment: Mutoh printer/cutter CorelDRAW Online: www.acsgraphics.biz On… Read More

Tips & Tricks

A little planning can save a lot of material On a recent flatbed printer/CNC router project, we used this trick to save material… Read More

More great substrate storage rack designs

Our recent feature, Build one of these handy racks to store sheet goods, brought us more great designs for sheet goods storage racks…. Read More

What would you get for this 4×10 ACM sign?

Jot down your price for this project: The owner of a towing company whose trucks you letter is opening a speed shop. He… Read More

Fancy isn’t always better

Neuropsychology has recently “discovered” something that top sign designers have known for a long time: Clean, simple letter styles are read much faster… Read More

Dave Sautter

Shop name: Dave Couch Signs Shop size: 2000 sq. ft. total Staff: Five plus Dave Age: 53 Graphics equipment: Roland 54-in. printer/cutter Graphtec… Read More

Design & Price: 4-by-10-ft. storefront sign

In every issue, SignCraft gives a few sign makers an imaginary project. We ask them to do a sketch of the sign they… Read More

Noëlla Cotnam

Noëlla Cotnam has a reputation for making beautiful signs, being a part of Letterhead and Walldog events and a willingness to share her… Read More

Letters

Wanted: Chester Cunningham’s Sign Design Notebook Dear SignCraft, I’ve been really hot on the work of the late Chester Cunningham, but it is… Read More

Monte Rogers 1953–2019

I can’t remember how I first came across Monte Rogers and his great-looking sign work. I have a hunch that I heard about… Read More

Tips & Tricks

Direct printing on aluminum composite material We do a lot of direct printing of graphics on aluminum composite material before cutting out the… Read More

Designing successful racecar graphics

At 15, Braun Bleamer was in the graphics program at his local vo-tech school, but not sure what he wanted to do. He… Read More

David Adrian Smith

Shop name: David Adrian Smith, Traditional Ornamental Glass Artist Studio size: 1200 sq. ft. Age: 51 Graphics equipment: Summa 610 cutter Gerber Omega… Read More

Shop Trucks

Send us a photo of your shop truck today at signcraft@signcraft.com or to SignCraft, P.O. Box 60031, Fort Myers, FL 33906. Read this… Read More

Build one of these handy racks to store sheet goods

Handling and storing sheet goods is a fact of life in the sign business. Doing it efficiently takes the hassle away, speeds production… Read More

Add power to your sign designs

Would you like your layouts to look like this: Instead of this: The bottom version certainly gets the job done, but the top… Read More

Use Instagram to market your sign work

Ever since we started sharing photos of great-looking signs every day on Instagram (you’ll find us at @signcraftmagazine), we’ve heard from sign people… Read More

Tony Sullivan

Shop name: Graphix Signs & Design Shop size: 1000 sq. ft. shop space plus 675 sq. ft. office Staff: Two plus Tony Age:… Read More