Signs of the Times - December 2012 - 64

USSC’s Pin-Ups
A gallery of winners from the association’s 2012 competition
By Steve Aust
This is a sampling of some of the winners from the United States Sign Council’s (USSC) 2012 Sign Design Contest, which will be featured in the organization’s 2013 calendar and on the floor at the Sign World Intl. tradeshow (see sidebar). Judges for the competition were Marty Jacobson from Philadelphia’s Forman Sign Co. and Bill Weigand, owner of Phoenixville, PA’s H.A. Weigand Inc. For more information, visit www.ussc.org or call (215) 785-1922.

First Place, Vehicles
Countryside Signs (Seekonk, MA) Designers: Mike and Jay Szczoczarz Client: Scorpio Towing Countryside’s process includes Dupont urethane coatings, with 1Shot enamel applied for details. They apply the coatings with a combination of airbrushes, an HVLP production gun and striping and outlining brushes.

Best of Show
Great American Sign Co. (Basking Ridge, NJ) Designer: Gary Johnson Client: Bedminster Township Community Garden If only every sign that conveys the legalese that absolves property owners from liability could be so whimsical and fun. Managers of the Bedminster (NJ) Township Community Garden at Natirar Park hired Johnson to fabricate the sign for the garden. After having designed the sign using SAi’s EnRoute® 4 3-D software, he routed the sign on his Gerber Dimension 200 CNC router using 30-lb. PrecisionBoard® HDU. The body copy entails a white, acrylic panel that’s painted black and V-carved to fit the sign. Johnson shaped the layer from scrap Sign*Foam pieces before creating dimensional flora with Abracadabra’s 3-D sculpting compound.
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Sign World Intl.
The United States Sign Council will host its Sign World Intl. tradeshow November 29-December 1 at the Atlantic City (NJ) Convention Center. The exhibit hall will be open on the 29th from 3-7 p.m., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on the 30th and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on the 1st. Last year, approximately 6,000 sign-industry professionals attended the show, according to USSC’s website. In addition to approximately 80 vendors demonstrating their wares, the exhibit hall features The Bullpen, where dozens of talented artisans will be handlettering, airbrushing and pinstriping rigid panels. One of its annual highlights is the Panel Jam, where several Bullpen participants will collaborate on pinstriping small panels. The panels are sold, with proceeds benefitting


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Contents
ST Update
Technology Update
Vinyl Apps
Strictly Electric
LED Update
Software Update
Technology Review
Technology Review
Sign Museum News
New Products
The Craft Endures
The 2012 Lighting Survey
USSC’s Pin-ups
Digital-print Update
The Value of Signs
Advertising Index
Editorially Speaking
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