Electric Signs

2009 International Sign Contest: Electric Building Signs

A gallery of the category’s winners

Published

15 years ago

April 2, 2009

Wade Swormstedt Signs of the Times March 2009 Issue

FIRST PLACE

This fiberglass, 16-ft.-tall bottle features a steel-tube structure. Paint includes duPont’s metallic-green Imron® and House of Kolor’s pearl-white finish in the foam area, which was accented by end-lit fiberoptics. The wine label was digitally printed on 3M’s Controltac™ vinyl. The pan channel letters are illuminated with Sloan LEDs. The 3 x 18-ft., full-color EMC was fabricated by YESCO Electronics.

SECOND PLACE

The custom-fabricated aluminum cabinet features Sloan LED-illuminated letters, a fluorescent-illuminated piano, and a Voltarc flashing-neon border trim. The 5-ft., 8-in.-tall sign is 5 ft. 4¼ in. wide. A Multicam router cut the cabinet and the letters.

THIRD PLACE

Set in Portland’s Pearl District, this brewery sign is illuminated with EGL CL 83 white neon. All of the neon accents are 15mm Clear Bright Yellow pumped neon to produce an orange glow. The routed, 1/8-in. aluminum faces feature 2-in. Spartech Polycast clear-acrylic copy, with translucent, digitally printed copy on the first surface and a white diffuser for the second surface. The aluminum includes a Spraylat Satin Black Mark 1 acrylic urethane finish. The logo is ¾-in. Plastiglas de Mexico Chemcast clear acrylic, also with a digitally printed first surface and diffuser second surface.

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