CUSTOM ELECTRIC SIGN GUIDES FROM HOLIDAY SIGNS OF CHESTER, VIRGINIA

If you are contemplating designing or purchasing custom electric signs in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, or North Carolina, here are some free PDF’s to help guide your decision-making process in selecting the best possible partner.

Holiday Signs specializes in serving:

• Regionally-focused, multi-location retailers;
• Clients interested in optimizing customer engagement with exterior digital messaging;
• Customers with technically challenging design, manufacturing, or installation requirements.

 

The following articles, in PDF format, can be safely downloaded and saved or printed for your reference library:

TECHNICALLY CHALLENGING TOPICS:

 

 

 Restoring Downtown Historic Signage

 

 

 Utilizing Digital Signage in Historic Downtown Restorations

 

 

 How Iconic Signs Can Help Brand Your Corner

 

 

 The Challenges and Impact of Installing Signs on Radius Walls

 

 

 Why Sign Prototypes Make Sense for Large-Scale Projects

BRANDING TOPICS:

 

 

 How Wayfinding Becomes a Branding Tool

 

 

 One Church Branding Option

 

 

 Shopping Center Repositioning Case Study 1

 

 

 Shopping Center Repositioning Case Study 2

 

 

  Re-Branding a Retirement Community

DIGITAL MESSAGING TOPICS:

 

 

 Part 1- Connect With The Community

 

 

 Part 2- Co-op Advertising Opportunities

 

 

 Part 3- Impact Tens of Thousands Daily

 

 

 Part 4- Control Your Own Media Channel

 

 

 Part 5- Digital Signs Work

 

 

 Part 6- Retailers Can Promote Loss Leaders to Attract Business

GENERAL SIGNAGE TOPICS:

 

 

 Reverse Channel Letters

 

 

 Consideration of Sunlight & Shadows When Designing Wall Graphics

 

 

 Viewing Angle and Readability

 

 

 6 Reasons to Retrofit Neon to LED

 

 

 Push-Thru Acrylic Graphics

 

 

Custom Awnings

 

 

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LIFEPOINT CHURCH: COVERING ALL THE INS AND OUTS OF SIGNS

THE FULL PACKAGE- SUPPLIERS FOR EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR SIGNS

Lifepoint Church, a Fredericksburg-based church with three locations just off I-95 recently utilized Holiday Signs for all of its signage. Holiday Signs collaborated with KBS Construction of Richmond and Pye Interiors of Charlottesville to provide both the exterior and interior signage for Lifepoint’s brand new building located in a section of Central Park, a modernized retail center in Fredericksburg.  

The church name on the building’s radial entrance canopy is striking as you make the approach on foot or by vehicle.  Additional exterior signage marks the main entrance off the church parking lot, and a complete customized interior signage system supports the positive exterior branding impressions while directing members and visitors where to go once inside the large worship facility.

Custom Exterior Sign System Components:

•     Set of large, bright red channel letters, illuminated with internal white LED modules

•     Eye-catching custom internally-illuminated inlaid wall cabinet sign with a unique pattern of custom fabricated red rectangles that draw attention to the building entrance

 

 

Custom Interior Signage System Components:

•     Several large, interesting wall mounted logos at main entry points

•     A total of 80 custom-fabricated room and directional signs

 

 

Three Advantages of Using a Single-Source for All the Signage on your next Project:

    1) EASIER- Less work needed to qualify the source and probably less administrative effort in dealing with only one supplier;

    2) ADVANTAGEOUS- When significant engineering effort is required and branding features are common to both interior exterior signage, it’s a real advantage to utilize a single source for all the signs;                    

    3) ECONOMICAL- Since all of the signage is given to one source, the buyer maximizes his leverage based on total quantity.

One more advantage of single-sourcing is service. There’s only one company to call later if you need to add or change signs on the interior signs while at the same time your exterior lighting needs service. Using a single source, you only make one call, only pay one trip charge, and rely on one account manager to fulfill all your needs.

 

Contact:

Mark Hackley, Account Executive

Holiday Signs, mhackley@holidaysigns.com

540-416-3154

 

 

 

 

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VIRGINIA CHURCH SIGN CASE STUDY 1

VIRGINIA CHURCH CASE STUDY 2

USING BRICKS TO FUND NEW SIGNAGE

OPERATION SMILE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS SIGNAGE

SEE HOW ONE RETAILER USES SIGNAGE TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

 

SUPPLIERS for EXTERIOR and INTERIOR SIGNS

RE-BRANDING SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY’S NORTHERN VIRGINIA CAMPUS

LEESBURG, VA- Several of our college and university clients are utilizing illuminated channel letters for building identification at their college campuses.

3 REASONS WHY ILLUMINATED CHANNEL LETTERS ARE A GOOD FIT FOR COLLEGES:

• They help students, staff and visitors quickly identify buildings and make it easier to find their way around
  
• They add a level of lighting at night that improves campus safety and overall appearance
  
• They boost school spirit by highlighting the school brand or mascot 24 hours a day
  

 

Last month, we designed, fabricated and installed a new custom-built electric sign for Shenandoah University’s Northern Virginia Campus located in Leesburg, Virginia as part of a comprehensive re-branding initiative at their main Winchester Campus and all satellite locations.

The building that houses one of the college’s Northern Virginia locations next to Inova Loudoun Hospital is set back from the main road, and the University’s entrance is around to the left as you approach the 3-story building.  The existing branding was a set of dimensional letters attached directly to the wall, high and just under the roof line, and non-illuminated. Collaborating with the organization’s marketing directors and facilities managers, Holiday Signs provided a better solution with illuminated channel letters. The logo and letters are individually crafted and installed on common raceways, allowing for less disturbance to the exterior wall, and easier maintenance.

 

Holiday Signs has outstanding capabilities in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing all types of custom signs. They work hard to help colleges brand their campuses, boost school spirit, and make getting around their sites more user-friendly with custom kiosks, directories, general exterior and interior wayfinding signage, electronic message centers, athletic program signage, customized donor walls, architectural signs, banners and displays.

 

If you liked this, you may also be interested in these sign stories:

 

• What is the Cocooning Effect?
• Shopping Center Repositioning
• Re-Branding a Retirement Community
• Turning Eyeballs into Smiles
• Green Marketing
• Site Lighting and Your Brand
• Flexible LED Case Study
• Custom Awnings
• Richmond Executive Airport
• Branding Grace Church
• Shopping Center Makeovers Boosting Economic Development
• Branding and Anniversary at Kings Dominion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MeadWestvaco Sign Case Study

Special Considerations when Branding High Buildings

 

 

IT PAYS TO GET THINGS RIGHT ON THE GROUND!

Designing signs for high-rise applications and attaching them to buildings is not a typical capability of the average sign company. Holiday Signs recently provided the branding signage for the MeadWestvaco (MWV) Corporate Headquarters building in Richmond, Virginia. The building’s striking design above the James River is signed with the corporate brand making the MWV building a noticeable and visually attractive addition to the downtown.

The project involved the design, manufacture and installation of MWV logos for three sides of the skyscraper viewed 24 hours a day. Using prototypes may seem like an unnecessary use of materials at first glance, but when considering large scale signage and costs of manufacture and installation of high-rise work, prototypes make good sense..

 

 

There are three important benefits of using sign prototypes for high-rise applications:

 

● Cost Reduction

● Resource Conservation

● Achievement of Best Results

 
Because of our experience with high-rise and other technically challenging projects, we know it’s best to get it right on the ground and get a strong sense its going in the right direction with signage prototypes before committing to build the whole thing.

 

 

PROTOTYPES AND SUSTAINABILITY

The MWV corporate philosophy embraces sustainability as part of their ethical business strategy and proactively partners with vendors driven by the same commitment. MWV consciously took steps in reducing its carbon footprint by purchasing locally, and by using LED lighting for illumination. But perhaps the biggest sustainability aspect here was the agreement to utilize prototypes in the manufacturing cycle saving more than 50% in material, labor and fuel costs of working in high-rise conditions.

The MWV logo was designed by an independent design firm. The first prototype was made based on the original design specifications. After critically viewing the first version of the illuminated corporate logo from the ground, a team of senior executives immediately wanted it taken down and redesigned. Both the lighting and framework were redesigned and a second prototype was prepared. Before this could be approved for production, a third prototype was ordered because MWV re-designed their logo.

 

Prototypes saved valuable resources and helped make sure installation and future service costs were kept to a minimum. In this case, the design of channel letters for mounting on very expensive glass panels was coordinated with the architect and engineer to make sure the attached logos did not over-stress the glass or building structure. Without the use of prototypes, the customer would have incurred significant costs for the design, manufacture, installation and removal of the logos.

 

The completed corporate image was a big success! It fits the building and surrounding environment while making a lasting impression on the MeadWestvaco brand in Richmond!

 

 

 

 

 

Contact:
Mark Hackley
Account Executive
(800) 229-9443
mhackley@holidaysigns.com

 

 

 

If you liked this article here are some of equal interest:

 

• Virginia Iconic Signs
• Case Study: Hotel John Marshall
• Historic Restoration Case Study
• Powerful Entrance to a Virginia Mixed Use Development
• Dominion Enterprises: High-Rise Branding
• Connects Federal Credit Union
• Historic Restoration-Altria Theater
• ACAC Fitness Centers

 

 

 

 

 

(Reprint of a previous case study.)

Who manufactures, installs and provides maintenance for high-rise signs, tall building signage, signs at high elevations, signs requiring crane trucks, or sign projects of extreme technically challenging aspects?  *We do…Holiday Signs…serving clients in: Richmond, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Roanoke, Tysons Corner, Fairfax, McLean, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Baltimore, Washington, DC or any city with a skyline! Branding buildings for over 30 years!