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Best Commercial Monument Signs of 2010

Winners from the 2010 International Sign Contest’s Commercial Monument Signs Category

Published

14 years ago

March 23, 2010

Steve Aust Signs of the Times April 2010 Issue

FIRST PLACE

Fabricator
Gordon Sign
Denver
(303) 629-6121
www.gordonsign.com

Designer
Jayson Harker
Gordon Sign
Cheyenne, WY
(307) 637-7446

Client
Wyoming State Parks

Selling Price
$100,000

Gordon Sign helped honor Curt Gowdy – the native Wyomingite who became a Hall of Fame sportscaster and avid outdoorsman – with this 30 x 57-ft. gateway structure to his namesake park. The monument comprises ¼-in.-thick, routed, flat, cut-out aluminum fashioned with the shop’s Logixx Automation 8 x 20-ft. CNC router table to create the graphic elements. The fishing line entails ¼-in.-diameter, aluminum rod. Digital images, which Gordon created with 3M IJ-180 Controltac media on its Epson GS6000 printer, decorate the fisherman and his catch. To affix the graphic elements to the sign’s masonry base, Gordon implemented 6-in. x 12-ft., rolled-steel tubing for the arch, and 3-in.-thick, steel uprights and 12-in.-diamater poles to match the caisson footings. Matthews acrylic-polyurethane paint coats all sign parts not digitally decorated. Harker created this custom design using Corel’s X3 software.

SECOND PLACE

Fabricator
Stoner Graphix
Hummelstown, PA
(717) 469-7716
www.stonergraphix.com

Designer
Stoner Graphix

Client
Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art

This Millersburg, PA facility honors Ned Smith, a native son who earned accolades as a fine artist for his depictions of regional woodlands and creatures, and for teaching roughly 4,000 schoolchildren annually about the area’s unique wildlife. Stoner Graphix devised the two-sided monument’s 5-ft.-diameter graphics using Gerber Omega software and fabricated it with sandblasted, handcarved and Gerber Sabre 408-routed Duna HDU components and prismatic-cut, Chemcast acrylic lettering. Akzo Nobel Grip-Gard® Base-Coat acrylic-polyurethane paint decorates the circular logo. For one of the side’s graphics, Stoner cast the carved-HDU feather, leaf and brush with a Poly-Tek rubber mold and formed the pieces from Poly-Tek resin.

THIRD PLACE

Fabricators

Brother Zank
Custom Craftsman Signs
Sevierville, TN
(865) 429-1934

(masonry and woodwork)
Mike McClain
Sevierville, TN
(865) 805-7770

Designer
Brother Zank

Client
Boulder Development LLC

Boulder Development LLC touts The Boulders at Maples Branch as, “Where country roads and covered bridges lead home.” To create an entry sign reflective of such a lofty slogan, Zank sandblasted Sign•Foam® 3 HDU that’s anchored to a barrel-stacked, brick planter pot. McClain fashioned the masonry base and
12-ft.-tall, cedar arbor that frames the sign.

HONORABLE MENTION

Fabricator
Danthonia Designs
Inverell, NSW, Australia
(612) 6723-2213
www.danthonia.com.au

Designer
Nancy Kaiser
Danthonia Designs

Client
Gympie Regional Council

Selling Price
$24,000

HONORABLE MENTION

Fabricator
Ruggles Sign Co.
Versailles, KY
(859) 879-1199
www.rugglessign.com

Designer
Deirdre Lyons
Alltech
Nicholasville, KY

Client
Alltech

Selling Price
$25,000

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