by Cheryl Archer | Nov 1, 2011 | Commercial Signage
As the owner of a sign company, I blog and write about sign industry related topics all the time. I thought it would be interesting for my readers to get a different perspective from someone other than myself. Our new intern wrote the following article about what he...
by Cheryl Archer | Oct 27, 2011 | Commercial Signage
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...
by Cheryl Archer | Oct 25, 2011 | Commercial Signage
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...
by Cheryl Archer | Oct 12, 2011 | Commercial Signage
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...
by Cheryl Archer | Oct 5, 2011 | Commercial Signage
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...
by Ryan Llana | Sep 28, 2011 | Commercial Signage
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 ...