First Place
Fabricator
ARTfx
Bloomfield, CT
(800) 466-4278
www.artfxsigns.com
Designers
Seth Darvick
Lawrin Rosen
Pete Stockmal
ARTfx
Client
Simoniz USA
To my grandparents, getting your car waxed or detailed meant getting your car “Simonized”. Simoniz sought to play up the company’s history with this new sign for its West Hartford, CT detail center. The 15-ft.-tall sign, which includes a 42-in.-diameter circle and 5 ft. 6 in.-long arrow, features a face made from 3/16-in.-thick, stepped acrylic. Graphics were produced with 3M translucent vinyl – except for the “The Garage”, which was fashioned from second-surface acrylic. The base cabinet was made from 0.063-in.-thick aluminum, and 36W CAO Group LuxemBright LED modules illuminate the face. Akzo Nobel’s acrylic-polyurethane coating covers all components.
Second Place
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Fabricator
Art Display Co.
Capitol Heights, MD
(240) 765-1400
www.artdisplayco.com
Designer
Diana Cheshmedjiev
Art Display Co.
Client
Washington Properties
Washington Properties wanted a new freestanding sign to promote this LEED Gold-certified, Silver Springs, MD apartment complex to younger prospective tenants. Cheshmedjiev designed the sign with CorelDRAW, Adobe Photoshop and EnRoute 4, and Mohamad Natour and Art Display’s fabrication staff built the signface from brushed stainless steel, created the rotating rings from polished stainless steel, and installed a 4-in.-diameter, steel-pipe support. The sign’s edge reflects light, which is emitted by blue SloanLED modules. The signface was routed with the shop’s MultiCam 3000 CNC router, and the logo was applied via ½-in.-thick, push-through acrylic decorated with white, translucent 3M vinyl.
Third Place
Fabricator
Berry Sign Systems
Everett, WA
(425) 776-8835
www.berrysignsystems.com
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Designer
Cory Snider
Berry Sign Systems
Client
K2 Rotor Lodge
K2 Sports’ David La designed the sign’s concept. With guidance from Commercial Displayers (Seattle, WA), Berry Sign Systems reconfigured the design using LED lighting components while keeping the appearance of neon. Berry’s Bob Mayer and Tom Reneau fabricated the sign with a Gerber Sabre 408 CNC router, Tennsmith metal shear and a power roller. To internally illuminate the sign, they installed CAO Group’s Blaze white and red LEDs with 60W power supplies. The helicopter weathervane is externally lit with CAO Group Dynasty S14 LED flood-lamps and spins freely on Dodge E-Z Kleen housed bearings. All metal components were protected with Matthews acrylic-polyurethane paint and backed with white polycarbonate and 3M Scotchcal translucent vinyl. Second-surface graphics were shaped with Spartech polycarbonate covered with 3M™ Scotchcal™ translucent vinyl.
Honorable Mention
Fabricator
L & H Sign Co.
Reading, PA
(610) 898-9538
www.lhsigns.com
Designer
Scott Long
L & H Sign Co.
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Client
Willow Street Pictures