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If you haven’t heard of Meow Wolf before, it’s time.

The New Mexico-based arts and entertainment company recently completed a mind-blowing art experience in Denver called Convergence Station. It did so with the help of RiNo Sign Works (Lakewood, CO), which designed, fabricated and installed more than 80 signs for the project depicting “four alien worlds joined together in a rare cosmic event.”

RiNo Sign Works spent more than a year helping bring Convergence Station to life. This is a sampling of the shop’s work, though we can assure you – it doesn’t compare to seeing it in person.

Photography/caption credit: RiNo Sign Works

The shop produced custom letters and a logo for the main entrance. These signs contain hundreds of DMX-controlled RGB LEDs to give the client an unlimited number of lighting effect options.

The “Convergence Exchange” sign is a backlit, printed graphic with an embedded LED ticker board that allows the client to change custom messaging.

In addition to the Convergence Exchanger sign, RiNo produced various non-illuminated signage to go behind these kiosks.

Designed to look like a traditional movie theater marquee, the “Ofeam” sign features face-lit trimless letters, an illuminated art deck tower and illuminated zip track letters. The RiNo Sign Works team even produced custom letters to match the project’s “alien” font. The shop calls this sign one of its favorites from the project.

This sign incorporates a custom cabinet with backlit LED panels and is one of the largest illuminated signs the shop made.

Meet “Gaper Head.” He has hidden illuminated elements, some push-through elements, some routed and backed pieces, and multiple layers of stencil painting to add dimensionality.

A simple illuminated sign cabinet welcomes visitors to the pet store, where some rather irregular creatures await.

RiNo Sign Works employed Class A, fire-rated fabric to make this fabric backlit sign, one of two made for the project.

The “Salawn” is a multilayered sign with face- and halo-illuminated letters and a halo-illuminated tree. After installation, the Meow Wolf team made it look dirty to match the wall behind it.

RiNo produced the illuminated pucks, the faux neon letters and the other large backlit fabric sign over the elevator.

The shop also made a variety of non-illuminated printed panels for the experience.

The “Techstream” is a deep cabinet that illuminates on all five visible sides.

The halo-illuminated “Gyre” letters were painted with an airbrush to create the look of a rusty patina.

To mimic a traditional “Walk-Don’t Walk” street sign, RiNo built a custom cabinet with controlled RGB lighting in two different zones with black-perforated vinyl so each symbol can be illuminated any color.

This corner piece incorporates multiple sign types, including a #D foam leaf head at the top that was one of the shop’s greatest fabrication challenges.

This “Mijo Miho Cybercafe” sign consists of face-lit, trimless letters that are mounted on a mirror backer.

Inside Mijo Miho, you’ll find vinyl palm trees and a vending machine made out of Dibond routed out onto a CNC. The vending machine is 4 in. deep to house the RF scanner chip seen on the right.

Much of the Convergence Station’s lighting effects came from the illumination of the signs that RiNo made.

The shop produced all of the wayfinding and info signage in the lobby. This sign is a custom-fabricated cabinet that was stencil-painted.

This is another stencil-panted directional sign in the lobby.

RiNo also made an assortment of vinyl wall graphics for the experience. These panels are in the lobby gift shop.

21 Signs from Meow Wolf’s Newest Art Installation

21 Signs from Meow Wolf’s Newest Art Installation

If you haven’t heard of Meow Wolf before, it’s time.

The New Mexico-based arts and entertainment company recently completed a mind-blowing art experience in Denver called Convergence Station. It did so with the help of RiNo Sign Works (Lakewood, CO), which designed, fabricated and installed more than 80 signs for the project depicting “four alien worlds joined together in a rare cosmic event.”

RiNo Sign Works spent more than a year helping bring Convergence Station to life. This is a sampling of the shop’s work, though we can assure you – it doesn’t compare to seeing it in person.

Photography/caption credit: RiNo Sign Works