VISITORS WELCOME THE MUSEUM OF THE CONFEDERACY, APPOMATTOX, VA FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT “Main entrances must be welcoming, particularly to first time visitors,” says Madge Bemiss, the architect who planned and managed construction of the Museum of the Confederacy (MOC) in Appomattox, VA. Holiday Signs recently worked with the new museum in providing entrance signage […]
HAPPY BLOGIVERSARY! CELEBRATING A YEAR OF INTERESTING SIGN CASE STUDIES This past May marked the 1 year anniversary of our first blog post. We have come a long way since May of 2013 and we are very pleased about that. For those of you who are new to Holiday Signs and what we’re all […]
BRANDING ON A BUDGET MOBILITY SUPERCENTER, CHESTERFIELD, VA “Good-Better-Best” Options Retailers incorporate their customized logos and taglines into their facilities’ identification signage to promote clear and consistent branding themes across all media channels and various physical locations. To be effective, big, bold branding statements need to pop off buildings and into the eyes of passing […]
Sign Experts On Holiday Developing the skills and experience needed to take brands to new heights is hard work. Being a sign expert takes extreme commitment. Commitment to learning many intricate processes and details you just can’t google YouTube to find “how-to” videos for. Since we enjoy difficult or unusual fabrication challenges that give us […]
Signage Makeovers Boost Virginia’s Economic Development Restoring Life to Virginia’s Aging Shopping Centers RETAIL REVIVAL Brookhill Azalea is one of many Virginia shopping centers where Holiday Signs helped revive cash flow and visual appeal by renovating signage. Research shows that grocery-anchored retail centers have the best survival rates during the toughest economic times, one […]
ROANOKE AREA… Holiday Signs is Central Virginia’s premier custom electric sign company and, just in case you haven’t noticed, we work in your town too! We’ve been turning traffic into customers for over 40 years and look forward to the chance to help your organization attract attention in your part of Virginia. […]
CHURCH SIGNS- PART 3 How Bricks Can Finance an Electronic Message Center Just Another Brick in the Wall? Bricks… Small, modular building units about 2.5 inches high by 8 inches wide. Who would ever think they could add so much value to an organization? “Our sign is an interesting story,” says Dr. […]
PUSH-THRU ACRYLIC Push-Thru Acrylic Graphics are manufactured on a CNC Router at Holiday Signs. Once a design is approved, the raw aluminum sign face that becomes the background for the push-thru graphics is routed so that the letter areas are cut through. The metal centers of letters are saved as applicable and later re-attached […]
Historical Signage Source for Markers, Historic Plaques and Site Wayfinding Systems in Virginia HISTORY ON DISPLAY Since Virginia hosts over 30% of the US News & World Report’s Top 13 Historic Destinations in the US, it only makes sense that our Richmond-area-based sign company, Holiday Signs of Chester, Virginia, manufactures historic plaques, markers, kiosks, […]
WHEN FLEXIBLE SIGN FACES FLEX TOO MUCH Warm Weather Months Best Time to Install Large Flex Faces Loose Clips Sink Ships I notice them often as I drive by retail stores. Signs with saggy faces. They don’t help Virginia retail marketing directors put their best foot forward, almost looking like old outdoor grill covers […]
How to Restore Old Theater Marquees? How Signage Restores the Glamour of Virginia’s Downtowns NEON NICHE Historic marquee sign restoration at theaters is one of the few remaining applications for neon lighting and signs, which is gradually being replaced by greener LED lighting technology. “This could be the last big neon job we’ll do,” […]
How to Rebrand a Shopping Center? GLAMOUR LOST? If your shopping center’s signs have been around more than ten years, this article may help you ponder a sign renovation project. Replacing or upgrading signage at shopping centers is a good way to turn humdrum entrances and storefronts into dazzling attractions. Styles change and weather […]
How to Buy an Electric Sign? Part 1: Deciding What’s Right when Choosing Signage A PROCESS On any given day, our project managers are working on a variety of sign types. I walked through our Chester shop and among the many projects in production, I noticed a set of custom channel letters for a […]