Beefed Up Banners

San Jose, CA’s Santana Row has gained a reputation as one of Central California’s premier shopping destinations. Adding a distinctive offering to its restaurant repertoire, Left Bank Brasseries, which operates several French-style eateries, opened LB Steak, a French-inspired steakhouse.

Scott Architectural Graphics (AG) Santa Rosa, CA, which handled the restaurant’s environmental-graphic design, hired Rainier Industries (Tukwila, WA) to fabricate a series of four, exterior banners that provided a festive, yet dignified, appearance. Rainier’s Dan Zinsmeyer said the double-sided banners, which were sewn together, measure 800 sq. ft. total.

“When teaming with a design firm on such a project, it’s essentially to be working from accurate measurements and drawings, and to have prompt and well documented image and color approvals,” he said. “And, no project flows well without teamwork.”

Rainier printed the material on Glen Raven Custom Fabrics’ Sunbrella material – which the client stipulated – using the company’s proprietary Sunbrella Graphics System, which incorporates the fabric and 3M™’s Scotchcal™ Electrocut™ graphic film. Vacuum pressure and heat lamps bond the film and substrate together, according to Glen Raven.

Scott AG supplied the installation hardware, and Rainier installed the finished graphics via a boom lift.