Gescom S.p.A, one of Italy's largest digital print service providers, recently became the first Italian print service provider to place an order for the Inca Onset S20 - expanding its service offering. The high volume, high production flatbed printer will put Gescom miles ahead of its competitors by producing high-impact visual images at incredible speeds.
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The Most Ominous Signs in Movies for Halloween
Whether you're a scary movie buff or have just seen a few of the classics, you know one thing: the signs all point to disaster. Horror movie signs are made to be ominous and foreboding, to clue the audience in on bad things to come. The most memorable horror movie signs beg the characters to stop, think and turn back before they reach impending danger. But though the signs in movies indicate looming trouble or foreshadow events to come, the uninformed characters continue treading right into the danger zone, making for the most thrilling horror movie sequences. Here are six of the most unforgettable signs from horror movies (warning: some movie spoilers included).
Interview with a Hollywood Production Designer - How Signs and Visual Graphics Help Tell the Story
Production designers are tasked with everything from decorating a cozy set for a sitcom living room to creating entire futuristic worlds in film and TV. The production designer collaborates with the director and producers to establish the visual landscape and the special aesthetic needs each project. Using signage and visual graphics, set designers and decorators can create entirely different worlds in past, present or future eras providing understated visual cues or impressive graphic scenery. Visual storytelling is a key component to creating lifelike false realities. Movie set designs subtly illustrate the entire atmosphere of the movie. Whether the setting is outer space, the colonial era or present day New York City, sets provide all the cues necessary for audiences to infer a time and place in the story.
Saga DG presents the ICON 34S
By Sabine A Slaughter
A solvent very large format printer for widths up to 3.2 m and speeds of 208 sqm/h
After the recent introduction of the ICON 18, the Dubai-based company now adds another printer to its portfolio: ICON 34S. Designed to accommodate flexible media it features a top speed of up to 208 sqm/h.
Signtrade expands its portfolio of large format UV flatbed printers
The Dubai based company Signtrade has signed a distribution agreement with swissQprint, the Swiss-based manufacturer of flatbed UV inkjet systems for the large format market.
FASTSIGNS® of Durango Donates Vehicle Graphics to Adaptive Sports Association
The Adaptive Sports Association (ASA) in Durango, Colorado works with students to overcome physical and cognitive challenges in a supportive environment, and is celebrating 30 years of inspiring individuals with special needs through participation in outdoor sports and activities such as skiing, rafting, canoeing and camping..
Branding SCRAM Crawling Insect Killer
Creating a Killer Brand
The Opportunity
SCRAM Crawling Insect Killer offers an affordable, organic and safe pesticide. To launch their product, the company needed to create and build their brand, so they called their local FASTSIGNS® for help.
The World's Most Famous Signs
The world's most iconic signs can be found on postcards, t-shirts, popular vacation photos and all over social media. Whether the sign was made famous by the location, what it represents or by its pop culture significance, these one-of-a-kind signs are continually photographed and shared. People from all over the world stop to snap photos of these famous signs that represent everything from the Golden Age of rock music to the slots of Sin City...
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Serving Up New Signage to Brand Wendy's Corporate Offices
The Opportunity
The Wendy's® Company, the third largest quick-service hamburger company in America, has been a customer of FASTSIGNS® since 1990. In 2012, Wendy's ended a merger with the Arby's Group in Atlanta and moved their headquarters back to Dublin, Ohio.
3 Product Launches That Blew People Away and Why They Worked
The most successful product launches will inspire masses to camp out in front of retail stores and preorder products before they're even released. And today's technologies allow marketers to reach wider audiences than ever before for product launches. The same companies that once relied on print-based advertising now also use viral social media posts and interactive marketing to spread the word about their product launch. The products below each had a strategic launch campaign that created the kind of pre-release buzz that skyrockets awareness and sales.
The World's Most Amazing Hand-Drawn Sign Art
Hand painted signs have been a large component in the long history of visual advertising. Sign painters displayed their eye-catching work on restaurants, billboards, political advertisements, traffic signs and more. Hand-drawn and painted signs created a rich visual landscape of colors and fonts. Though hand painted signs faded away as illustration software came onto the scene, a large resurgence of artisanal signage has occurred as a whole new generation admires the resonant imagery of handcrafted signs by coupling this craft with today's production technology. The history of painted signage is as rich as its bold visuals and a renaissance of this visual style is transforming the way the public looks at old-fashioned advertising signage.