Blogs
Commercial Signage| Design Collaboration Wins Every Time!
Sometimes I get to see collaboration at work and frankly, it’s truly exciting to watch! Over the summer our talented designer worked with a client to develop signage for the company’s special event, SnapDay. They were looking for a variety of digital prints and...
Commercial Signage| Affordable Plastic Logo Signs
We often talk about aluminum signs or channel letters while neglecting to mention one of the most affordable sign materials, plastic! This is especially true when it comes to fabricating logo of simple lettered signs. The array of pre-existing acrylic colors and the...
Commercial Signage| Cal State University East Bay Monument Sign Project Update
The diagrams and rendering above reflect the custom aluminum replacement monument sign that SignWorks fabricated for the facilities staff at Cal State University East Bay in Hayward this past July. When we were approached by the facilities staff to reconstruct a...
Vehicle Wraps| Managing a Remote Installation Process
We are sometimes asked by remote advertising agencies to either install vehicle graphics and wraps locally. Likewise we will sometimes need to manage the logistics for a fleet of vehicles or trucks that are located outside of our immediate geography. What this...
Traditional Outdoor Signs That Get You Noticed
There is much to be said about the new social media methods for reaching customers and prospects, but what about those customers who are less savvy and possibly even Twitter and Facebook phobic? Good old-fashioned outdoor signs are a more traditional method for...
Aspire Middle School: Evacuation Signs
We recently had an opportunity to create, build and install evacuation signs at a middle school in Oakland. Here at SignWorks we have done many evacuation signs, but this project was much different. A typical two story office building in Oakland CA, would have about ...
Vehicle Wraps| 5 Things That Help You Get An Accurate Quote
We are often asked to give phone quotes or estimates for vehicle wraps over the phone. While this may seem easy to do we are often asked to give them without complete information about the vehicle that is being wrapped. Sometimes we’re asked to quote on partial...
Big Joe Pole & Building Signs Project Update
Based in Hayward Big Joe, a heavy equipment and storage vendor, recently decided on a rebranding project to make their location more visible and their signage stand out! They wanted an updated look that would be bolder and brighter, especially on their overhead pole...
Rescue Rooter Project Update
Our San Leandro neighborhood Rescue Rooter has been at their location for quite awhile so when they approached us about fabricating an exterior LEXAN sign we were quite surprised that it didn’t exist already. The exterior sign reflected the name, logo and contact...
Vehicle Wraps| HeavyLux Fleet Graphics Project Update
When San Leandro based HeavyLux, a company that specializes in frameless shower doors, decided to add graphics to their vehicles they approached SignWorks to do the fleet graphics for them. While the logo already existed, the vehicles needing branding were all a...
Vehicle Wraps| Design Do’s and Don’ts
A bad vehicle design will simply distract from the impact of the wrap and muddle the message you are trying to convey. Most of these design mistakes are avoidable: 1. Alignment Errors. When the seams don’t line up or when more complicated graphic images land right on...
Restoration Hardware Fleet Graphics Project Update
These are exciting times here at SignWorks! Our client, Restoration Hardware and their delivery arm are in the process of branding their delivery trucks. The sizes of the box trucks vary and the branding which was established years beforehand consists of two...