Australian Communities Say “G’Day” With Stately Monument Signs

Danthonia Designs (Inverell, NSW, Australia) has become an award-winning fixture in our International Sign contest. Its team of in-house artisans has consistently fabricated excellent signage; its reputation has spread such that many of its signs have been shipped beyond Down Under’s shores. Yet, forward-thinking, local business organizations remain a core business. The Alstonville Chamber of Commerce hired Danthonia to design and build large entry monuments for the villages of Alstonville and Wollongbar to attract tourists’ interest and spur economic growth.

Danthonia’s Nancy Kaiser designed the sign using Adobe Illustrator 15 software, and fabricators constructed the monument using expanded-polystyrene foam that’s cut to shape with hand tools and fortified with a polyurethane hardcoat. They fabricated the letters with 18-lb. Sign•Foam® HDU formed with a Festool 1400 EQ handheld router. Danthonia created a painting mask with its Roland Camm-1 Pro cutting plotter, and painted the surface with Dulux Weathershield paint that’s bolstered with Luxury Paints’ Graffiti Buster 200 clearcoat.