CATEGORY 5:
Watercraft Graphics
FIRST PLACE
Fabricator/Designer/Installer
SignZoo
Sarasota, FL
(941) 355-5653
www.signzoo.com
Client
HUK Performance Fishing/Mexican Gulf Fishing
SignZoo is the exclusive provider of Kryptek™ camouflage-pattern marine wraps; the customer chose
one of Kryptek's aquatic-environment designs for
this wrap that adorns a deep-sea-fishing boat that
patrols the Gulf of Mexico. SignZoo produced the
wrap on 3M Controltac IJ180-10C air-release media
that's printed on an OKI Data Corp. (formerly Seiko)
ColorPainter H2-74S solvent-ink printer. To enable
the wrap to withstand humid, saltwater conditions,
SignZoo applied 3M's Scotchcal 8520 matte-finish
overlaminate. Installers used Geek Wraps felt squeegees to situate the film over the boat's contoured,
fiberglass hull.
SECOND PLACE
Fabricator/Installer
SignArt Inc.
Malden, MA
(781) 322-3785
www.signartboston.com
Designer
Rich Miner
Installer
Derek DeGioia
Client
Richie Sica
Sica brought this speedboat to
SignArt wanting a Day of the
Dead wrap theme. Miner created the traditional calaveras
(albeit depicted as painted
faces, not skulls) using Photoshop, and the shop produced
the graphics with Controltac
air-release media that's decorated on a Mimaki JV-33 solventink printer. The graphics are protected with a Scotchcal 8518
gloss-finish topcoat that's
applied on a Seal 62, and installed with 3M Gold nylon squeegees and a combination of
heat guns and propane torches.
SignArt also used Olfa knives, 3M
Primer 94 adhesion promoter
and Monkey Strips thin-edged
buffers to complete the project.
80 SIGNS OF THE TIMES September 2016
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