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Sign Gallery 5
The latest edition of Signs of the Times sign contest winners.

Sign Graphics
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Channel Letter Sign Sales Handbook
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National averages of retail prices for commercial signs.

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High Noon at the YO Ranch
How technology helped win the buzzard battle

Buzzards gliding in slow circles above arid Texas terrain – for anyone who’s ever seen a Western, it’s hard to imagine a more ominous and clear warning of doom than that spiral of vultures (called a “kettle”). But Bob Owen knows the scene can get worse. The carrion birds, it turns out, have a taste for trash. This buzzard’s tale begins 20 years ago, when the 100-year-old YO Ranch, one of the largest and best kn . . . » MORE

Ventex Premieres Advance HO Fluorescent Sign Ballast
Electronic fluorescent sign ballast can drive T8, T12 or Slimline lamps.

Ventex Technology Inc. (Jupiter, FL), is announcing the Advantage HO electronic fluorescent sign ballast. The high-power-factor, universally applicable, small (13 x 2.8 x 2.6 in.), easy-to-install, energy-efficient sign ballast can drive T8, T12 or Slimline lamps. The product auto-adjusts for any input voltage from 120 to 277V. The 8.2-lb. ballast can drive up to five, 10-ft.-long T12 lamps or power 2 to 48 ft. of T8, T12 or Slimline lamps, and even multiple lam . . . » MORE

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Good on Ya!
Sydney�s Olympic stadium receives �ripper� sponsor signage.

Built in 1999, in anticipation of the following year’s 27th Olympiad, Sydney’s ANZ Stadium was known as Stadium Australia for its first three years before Telstra, a telecommunications provider, acquired naming rights for five years. How-ever, when Telstra relinquished naming rights to ANZ, one of Australia’s largest financial institutions, in December 2007, yet another rebranding was required. As with any undertaking for . . . » MORE

Googie Meets Patent Leather
A gallery of bowling-alley signage

I’ve often heard the lamentation that August lacks any holidays. Eager to find something to celebrate this month (aside from parents of school-age children who rejoice that their offspring have headed back to class), I conducted a Wikipedia search to find out what celebrations occur during this oppressively hot month. My search yielded a fortuitous result for sign professionals and aficionados. Two years ago, the U.S. Bowling Congress decla . . . » MORE

A Red Sox Refresher
Creating a landmark Coca-Cola sign for Fenway Park required teamwork.

After this baseball season, when Yankee Stadium is shuttered and bulldozers raze the second incarnation of the “House that Ruth Built” (the original Yankee Stadium was renovated in 1974) to make room for its replacement, Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, will stand alongside the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field as one of baseball’s “cathedrals” that harkens back to the days of 25-cent bleacher seats and nicke . . . » MORE

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