When you need to make your brand/logo or information stand out 3D lettering comes highly recommended.

3D letters add a dynamic factor to your branding and are highly versatile - they can be made is all shapes and sizes, plus they can be created from a range of materials and illuminated in a number of innovative ways for bold, high impact marketing. Shadows, halo lighting or internal illumination all add to a 3D lettering sign's impact.

Leaps and bounds in technology mean 3D lettering is now an accessible option for most businesses. Here are a  couple of commonly asked questions:-

What materials work best?
There are so many options to choose from:- acrylic, medium density fibreboard, brass, PVC, foam or aluminium composite panel (ACP) are a few popular options. Wood is also an option and we love pushing the design boundaries, so let us know what you're after and we'd be happy to help!

Why choose IIluminated letters?
These are going to have maximum effect - day and night. Assuming your customers, users and potential next customers only operate in daylight hours is short-sighted (excuse the pun!). Light up the letters themselves with energy efficient LEDs or create a halo effect with back lighting.

Letter Examples
We've made Refer to the options below for inspiration or call us on +8 9274 5151 for some advice. Alternatively email us today: admin@signsandlines.com. 

We've had a few larger signs make their way out of the workshops recently. This monster digital sign for Daktronics was on its way to site but first we had to manoeuvre it out of the yard using a franna crane, and onto the hiab for its onward journey.

Our team use a pre-start meeting to discuss all elements of the move in advance of works. The whole process was well orchestrated by Andrew and the franna operator. They say that you learn something new every day, and this day was no different. On a break I asked the franna operator why the crane was so named - well FRANNA stands for: “Francis and Anna” the names of the company founder and his daughter. Franna is a manufacturer of Pick & Carry cranes with a lifting capacity from 10 to 25 tonnes.

 All in all another great manoeuvre by our team of sign superstars.

We featured the Red Dog story on the blog a few weeks ago and the rest of this interpretive project is progressing along nicely through our metal fabrication and paint shops. The red paint work is definitely striking and works perfectly with the red dog analogy (well that's a bit of a long shot, but worth a try!!).

Our paint work is second to none and as demonstrated here to good effect, the finish quality is down to the dedicated trade skills of our painter Jason (seen mixing up a new brew of red!).

Here are a few 'happy snaps' of the works in progress as they move through the workshops. 

After weeks of painstaking planning and development these two digital signs are now into Phase 2 of their life journey, having left our workshops today bound for the City.

Watch this space for more exciting news of these digital signs, with plenty more brass wayfinding signage in development as we speak. 

An oft used catch phrase - 'economies of scale' - but one that brings 'a proportionate saving in costs gained by an increased level of production'. We all see this in play everyday in the supermarket wars - with seemingly cheaper and cheaper prices being offered as supply chains get more sophisticated, the major players get larger and consequently buy in greater bulk and, of course, the new arrivals such as Aldi undercut the market. But can it apply to signage?

This first crossed my radar a few decades ago in A level Economics (yes, we're going back some) when the teacher tried to explain why you would want to create multiples of an item to save costs. I remember thinking at the time that it didn't sound that sensible to have to spend more, to save more, but fast-forward to the future and I see how 'bulk buying' has some major benefits, even when it comes to signage.

This recent project for South Metropolitan TAFE is a great example of where buying and making signs in bulk achieves positive financial outcomes for the client and opportunity for bulk production for us.

To find out how we can deliver economies of scale on your next project, speak to one of our sales team today on + 61 8 9274 5151 or email: admin@signsandlines.com.

When is bright orange, not bright orange?  This recent project in our workshops emphasized just how much light can influence colour - and reinforced the need to consider carefully your sign location prior to commissioning.

Even in our consistently lit workshops, the difference a day can make is significant. Check out the shots below of the same sign, same position, just on a different day! Our experienced spraypainter has used 2 pac paint for this job to get the finish you would expect on a car - pretty high quality. Colour testing is done in advance of full paint work - matched to pantone references and with client approval to ensure that everyone is happy. This situation below shows just how easy it is to misinterpret colour based on environmental factors such as weather, sunlight, time of day, artificial vs natural sunlight etc.

To find out how we can deliver outstanding colour reproduction on your next project, speak to one of our sales team today on + 61 8 9274 5151 or email: mark@signsandlines.com.

Are you confident that your signage is going to last the distance?

One of the things Signs & Lines care passionately about is making sure that your signs look as good tomorrow as they do today. To make sure we can deliver on this promise, we regularly undertake in-house testing to make sure that our production processes are fit for purpose.

With the powerful Australian climate providing some pretty intense environmental pressure on outdoor signage, we test different production processes over periods of time to ensure we can guarantee durability under reasonable external conditions.

Here's some of our test prints on coreflute undergoing quality control on the back fence. Yes! We do what we say, and are confident to deliver on our promises - and have the test results to back it up. Test failures are recorded as positives as we are then able to refine the methodology to provide the most durable, cost effective solutions.

Like what you see? Let's work together. Speak to Signs & Lines about your next digital print project and find out how our tests can guarantee your signage's durability. 

Contact Us: +61 8 9274 5151 or email admin@signsandlines.com today.

It was good to see these metal legs taking a new lease of life as part of our 'recycle, reuse' initiative.

Peter has restored them ready for a change of scenery in a new sign location. The Signs & LInes environmental ethos is to recycle metal as much as possible as a) it’s cost effective and b) it is doing the right thing for our planet. It's not always the easy way, but is it is the right way to recycle multi-use materials when possible.

A Win:Win in anyone’s book, and after a lick of lovely blue paint these metal legs look good as new as you can see by the pics below.

​Neon lettering in a single tube - what a refreshingly simple, yet effective way to brighten up a reception. Nothing glows like a beautiful neon sign.

This ones in construction phrase and rather than the usual computer aided design, it was really refreshing to see evidence of a pen and paper in use to ensure a free-flowing design.

Neon is becoming rapidly outdated as a signage product given the efficiency of LEDs and the move towards digital signage. Did you know that Neon is defined as the chemical element of atomic number 10? It's an inert gaseous element of the noble gas group and is obtained by the distillation of liquid air.

I predict we'll see a resurgence of neon in retro signage - taking us back to the glamourous 20's or the retro 50's.

Loved seeing this 300mm x 300mm x 300mm translucent blue acrylic cube illuminated with LEDs come to life in our workshops this week. Don't be fooled, this is no simple project. What looks simple from the outside relies on all our production departments including design, router, painting, fabrication and assembly. 

This picture was taken in the testing phase - just making sure it illuminated correctly before it goes out of the door to a new home. 

As the wording suggests, this one is bound for a recording studio.