Optical Design Eye’deas for a Creative Eyewear Display

This fun “EyCustom Over Sized eyeglasses make unique optical displaye-dea” was brought in by a customer who had seen something similar in a European optical shop.  The creative eyewear display featured a grid of hanging glasses displayed in the storefront windows.  Together with Signs for Success designer Vanessa Bogensberger, they brainstormed ideas and expectations for a similar design.

After considering logistics, time and product choices, they narrowed material down to painted wood.  “At first we were going to manufacture with a single layer of 3/8″ wood, but once we started, it made more sense to sandwich three layers of 1/8″ wood,” Vanessa explained.  The center layer had a slightly bigger opening for the “lenses” to fit in, so they looked like they do in real glasses.  The outer edges of all three layers was identical, so once glued together, we could seal and paint the edges, and they looked seamless.”Constructing over sized eyewear display

The creative eyewear display features different styles of larger-than-life glasses and sunglasses that hang inside a line of windows.  They add an iconic backdrop for the interior décor that can still be seen from outside the office when backlit.

This was a fun project that proves we can meet interesting new challenges, achieve a customer’s vision, and create a unique specialty sign.  Custom displays are great for:

  • Optical offices
  • Dental offices, (and any office really)
  • Boutiques
  • Retail stores
  • Restaurants, and more!Big eyglass create big eyewear display

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on a creative eyewear display; contact us for a free quote today!

This mesh banner on one-way street resists wind damage and looks great year after year for Hillyard events, custom signs hillyard

Street Banners – Mesh or Vinyl?

This mesh street banner on one-way street resists wind damage and looks great year after year for Hillyard events, custom signs hillyard

One-way mesh street banner

Whether you’re promoting a special event or boosting community morale, street banners will display your message beautifully.  This mesh banner on a one-way street resists wind damage and looks great year after year.  Mesh banner material’s tiny perforations allow wind to travel through the banner without detracting from the message.  Full color artwork is vibrant and easy to read from the street below.

Use Street Banners to:

  • Announce Events
  • Promote New Businesses
  • Celebrate a Holiday
  • Support Local Schools, Churches or other groups
Show community pride and give credit to your sponsors with a Street Banner

NUSA Hillyard event banners

This street banner in Hillyard shows community pride and recognizes neighborhood sponsors.

Designing a custom street banner is easy.  You can upload your own artwork or sit down with one or our expert designers to create a look all your own.  We can match logo specific colors or even create a logo from scratch.  State of the art digital printing gives street banners crystal clear imagery so you can be sure both drivers and pedestrians see your message.

Mesh banner material works well for single-sided street banners, perfect for one-way traffic, and proves invaluable in high-wind situations.  For most double-sided banners, we use outdoor durable 13 oz vinyl banner material.  Our banners are finished to the highest industry standard – with a 1” hem and grommets every 2 feet.  Our strong welded hems are more durable than traditionally sewn banner edges, and will also resist wind pressure and normal wear and tear.

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on street banners; contact us for a free quote today! SEE MORE BANNERS!

Give us a call now for fast sign service in Spokane for your banner needs, event banners, sport banners, street or wall banners

When Spokane Valley Chamber asked for custom stainless bottles for showing their new logo and branding, Signs for Success helped them with their promotional products spokane

Promotional Products A-Z

When Spokane Valley Chamber asked for custom stainless bottles for showing their new logo and branding, Signs for Success helped them with their promotional products spokane

Spokane Valley Chamber stainless water bottles

Promotional products Spokane are exceptional forms of advertising because they usually have a function aside from marketing your company.  Things like memo pads, pens, or magnets are some popular examples of items we see and use every day.  By branding a promotional product, your customers will be reminded of your business again and again.  Promo products get taken home, taken to work or passed on to a friend, but wherever they end up, your company will be sure to get repeat exposures.

You can brand just about anything from eco-friendly water bottles and sippers to groovy logo shoelaces.  Reusable printed tote bags are extremely popular, and they’re less than $1.00 each for quantities of 500 or more.  Use promotional products at your next trade show or even at the front desk.  At Signs for Success, we like to keep note pads and pens on the front counter for customers to take with them.  Many of our customers return to us with new sign projects and say they love our pens.  Our response is always, “take a handful!”

Our database has more than 750,000 promotional products which are searchable by keyword and can be narrowed down by category and price range.

Here is a list of just a few of our promotional products Spokane:

  • Aprons
  • Bumper stickers
  • Coasters
  • Desk organizers
  • Eco-friendly tote bags
  • Flip-flops
  • Gloves
  • Hand sanitizer
  • Instant Stain remover
  • Jump ropes
  • Key chains
  • Lip balm
  • Magnets
  • Note pads
  • Orange juicers
  • Paperweights
  • Quill pens
  • Rulers
  • Stress balls
  • Travel mugs
  • Umbrellas
  • Visors
  • Water bottles
  • Xmas ornaments
  • Yo yo’s
  • Zipper pulls

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on promotional products Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

Signs for Success in Spokane can get you the promotional product or ad specialty item that fits your business and model, give us a call now, eco friendly promotional items

Increase Brand Awareness with Promotional Items Spokane

Signs for Success in Spokane can get you the promotional item Spokane that fits your business and model, give us a call now, eco friendly promotional items

Letter Opener with logo

When new businesses start up, they come to us for signs – banners for opening week, storefront signs to mark a new location, and indoor signs for offices, displays, or restrooms.  But just as important as indoor and outdoor signs are promotional items.  What do signs and promotional items have in common?  They both brand you and get your message out to your target audience; however, promotional items Spokane are also usable and gift-able, spreading your brand beyond the storefront.

How can you be sure promotional items offer a good return on investment (ROI)?  One ad specialty supplier figured the average cost-per-impression for a promotional baseball cap was only one-fifth of a cent per impression, while logo shirts had an average cost per impression of half a cent.  Promotional items, whether it’s logo bags, logo pens, or another ad specialty items, have been proven to boost brand recognition and increase the likelihood a customer will remember a company and do business with them.

In a study released by the Advertising Specialty Institute, 84% of people remembered the names of advertisers who gave them promotional items, and 62% did business with a company after receiving a promotional item from them.  Order promotional items Spokane in bulk and give away as many as possible daily to increase your exposure.

We made this Equinox pen with blue ink in orange and blue for Chewelah Casino and when they arrived, the quality was great so we ordered more promotional items Spokane

Equinox pen high quality

A tangible product like a travel mug or a canvas bag is less likely to be thrown away than a flyer.  Promotional Items Spokane will outlive any sign or banner if they prove useful to the customer.  The tried and true promotional pen is a great example.  Most people find an extra pen to be extremely handy, and a “good pen” is treasured and taken along everywhere.  At Signs for Success, we keep hundreds of pens at our front desk and throughout the office as useful promotional products.  Many of our customers grab a pen or two whenever they come in, saying it’s their favorite.  Our name, phone number and website are printed on each, giving the customer easy access to our contact information at all times.

Aside from giveaways in-store, you can send promotional items Spokane in bulk mail-outs or give them away at trade shows and special events.

Some of the most successful promotional products are not only useful, but are also relevant to the business or products or services offered.  For example, a gym owner can promote his gym by giving away logo water bottles, and a health center can give away logo stress balls.  If you provide your potential customers with something they can take home, keep in their purse, or use in their car or at the office, you’ve guaranteed yourself daily exposure, getting you that much closer to the sale.

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on promotional items Spokane; contact us for a free quote today!

Wrap or just lettering on your step van like The Arc of Spokane by Signs for Success, van wraps spokane

Van Wraps Spokane give this Diverse Fleet a Cohesive Look

Wrap or just lettering on your step van like The Arc of Spokane by Signs for Success, van wraps spokane

The Arc of Spokane custom graphics on step van

Bringing together different sizes and different backgrounds sounds more like a feel good catch phrase than a fleet branding solution, but it’s just what we did when creating a solution for Arc of Spokane‘s diverse van fleet.  The thing that brought all these van wraps Spokane together for a cohesive look: a single sheet of white vinyl.  The Arc logo printed on white vinyl and applied to the length and height of each side panel of each van gave the fleet one cohesive look.

The original fleet contained vans of varying sizes and graphics.  One van had old vinyl lettering that left a sticky black mess behind (traditional vinyl will leave adhesive behind when removed; we use high performance vinyl with a releasable adhesive, so when it comes time to change out graphics, nothing gets left behind).  Another van had permanent painted-on logos on either side.  The goal of the van wraps was to give this vehicle fleet a complete, unified look.

Full sheets of white vinyl can be applied to any vehicle, no matter what size or type of graphics have been applied previously.  In addition to matching graphics across the fleet, using bright white material gave the vans the appearance of being brand new, though some were older than others.

Fred Meyer of Arc of Spokane was thrilled with the new look for their van fleet.  “I want to really thank you for all the hoops everyone jumped through to help get the load unloaded.  Your help goes beyond what most businesses would do.  From the Arc I truly thank everyone for their help and professional manner which you stepped up.  It’s been a huge pleasure to have had you as a business partner on all of our logo and graphic placements,” Fred wrote back to us.

We are proud to serve such great companies in and around the Spokane area.  Signs for Success will find solutions for your unique vehicle or fleet transformation.  We’ve designed, printed and installed hundreds of van wraps and vehicle graphics.  Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on van wraps Spokane; See More Van Wraps!

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Inland Northwest Wildlife Council banner for tradeshows looks great and was designed by Signs for Success in North Spokane, trade show banners

Creative Uses for Trade Show Banners

Inland Northwest Wildlife Council banner for tradeshows looks great and was designed by Signs for Success in North Spokane, trade show banners

Trade show banner for Inland Northwest Wildlife Council

Trade shows are a great opportunity to show your business off to the community, but if you’re just starting out, finding the funds for complex trade show booths, hardware and other accessories can be a challenge.  Banners are one of the most versatile ways to display graphics – we’ve used banner material in frames, on a billboard structure, and even as tradeshow displays.

We digitally printed a banner for Inland Northwest Wildlife Council for the recent Spokane Fair & Expo.  The banner turned out beautifully.  We also printed foamcore cutouts of a bird, fish, and their logo and mounted them to the banner to give the artwork more dimension.  Adding lighting to the display turned a simple trade show banner into a complete trade show display.

Litehouse Foods matches their whole booth from backdrop to podium covers to retractable banner stands by Signs for Success, Spokane, WA, and Sandpoint, ID

RETRACTABLE BANNER STANDS

Retractable banners are another great addition to trade show graphics if you already have the basics.  A retractable banner increases the visual impact

Feather banners are becoming more and more popular at trade shows.  They stand high above tables and booths and are easy to spot.  Eye-catching, festive and professional, they work indoors or out at trade shows, festivals, sports events, fundraisers and expos.

You may want to utilize one or more of these custom trade show banners:

  • Hemmed and grommeted banners, great for backdrops or hung across the front of your table.
  • Double sided banners, either grommeted or with pole pocket for viewing from multiple angles.
  • Retractable banner stands or pop up banner stands with custom full color graphics
  • Feather banners in small, medium or large; feather, rectangle or teardrop.

Signs for Success can help you decide the best trade show banners for your setup, and our experienced design team can come up with a cohesive design concept that matches your business and budget.  We are a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on custom trade show banners; contact us for a free quote today!

Shaped pennant banner for 2002 world cup wrestling in Spokane, WA call now for fast quote from Signs for Success, vinyl banners spokane

Why Use Vinyl Banners Spokane?

Shaped pennant banner for 2002 world cup wrestling in Spokane, WA call now for fast quote from Signs for Success, vinyl banners spokane

World Cup Wrestling banner

In the past, banners may have been boring and bland because they have been seen as temporary signs – either for short-term promotions, or to be replaced as soon as possible with the “real” sign.  With the introduction of large format digital printing, however, vinyl banners can be printed in full color and at a very reasonable price.

Vinyl banners Spokane are great for:

  • Sponsor banners
  • Grand Opening or Re-Opening banners
  • Seasonal Sales
  • Special Events
  • Tradeshow Displays
  • Graduations, birthdays and other celebrations
  • Sporting Events
  • Community Events
  • School Sponsorships
  • Golf Tournaments
This large banner was made and hung by Signs for Success in Spokane and Liberty Lake, vinyl banners spokane

Global Credit Union large banner

Banners for outdoor use are printed on heavy duty, tear-resistant scrim vinyl.  The edges are hemmed and grommeted for additional strength and longevity.  Signs for Success uses a vinyl welder to fuse the material at the edges creating a stronger hem than traditional sewn seams.  An additional benefit to this method is there is no visible stitching in the face of the digital print, creating a more aesthetically pleasing finished product.

Vinyl banners can be tied down or screwed down, and will last for years without fading or tearing, depending on weather conditions. The banner can also be mounted by the use of “pole pockets” instead. This way they are mounted on poles at either the sides or top and bottom. The poles can be part of a mounting bracket arrangement, or, if it’s made of wood or plastic, can be screwed directly to a wooden surface, like a wall or fence.

Advertisers and sponsors with banners at Gift of Golf Tournament in Post Falls and Cheney

Sporting event banners

Our banners are printed on smooth vinyl material with UV curable inks which are scratch and UV resistant.  It’s important to note that banners printed with dye-based or pigment-based inks will fade very quickly in bright light.  Our vinyl banners are also extremely durable and water resistant.  Banners should be rolled and stored in a cool dry place when not in use.  If cared for properly, your banner will be enjoyed for many years to come.

Vinyl banners Spokane are ideal for many tradeshow applications. Since they are lightweight and very flexible, they can be easily rolled and unrolled for shipping and setup.  Banners can be hung above the display or used as signage for the front of your display table.
Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on a vinyl banners Spokane.  Contact us for a free quote!

We designed, printed, and wrapped this shipping container for Discount Fireworks, Oroville, WA in Spokane, container wrap

Discount Fireworks Stand Container Wrap

We designed, printed, and wrapped this shipping container for Discount Fireworks, Oroville, WA in Spokane, container wrap

Shipping Container Wrap for Discount Fireworks, Oroville, WA

When we wrapped a giant 40-foot metal container, what was the biggest challenge we faced?  It wasn’t the sheer size of the vinyl wrap, the long hours of labor involved, or a question of where we could possibly store it during installation, though that was a question on all our minds.  In the end, the biggest challenge to installing this container wrap was the surface texture of the corrugated container.

Both the designer and the installers agreed the corrugations that covered the giant metal shipping container on all sides proved a formidable opponent.  The sides had shallow, beveled grooves, and the front and back ends had deep 90-degree angled corrugations.  In the design phase, designer Vanessa Bogensberger had to consider how much of the image would be hidden in the corrugations, and how much, if any, material would have to be added on top of the actual width.  The corrugations on each side of the container were shallow enough that the material could be laid flat, heated, then stretched into the grooves.  When it came to the ends, however, the material would have failed if we tried to lay it flat and stretch it.  The graphics were prepared in the design phase with a cushion of 40% more material over the actual width of each end, and our installers tucked material into the 90-degree grooves as they went.

“It’s the biggest thing I’ve ever installed.  I’ve installed large panels before, but nothing like all four sides of a 40-foot container,” Signs for Success installer Rich Wilke said.  “We spent three full days on that sucker, and it turned out very, very cool.”  The installers agreed the most difficult part of the container wrap was heating and rolling the material into each corrugation.

Luckily, the fireworks graphics did not suffer from stretching, but had it been a logo, “it would have been almost impossible,” Vanessa said.  When working with such a large format, high quality images are key.  “We can proof with low-resolution images before purchasing an image to make sure the customer buys into the concept, but we’ve got to have high-resolution images for large-format printing,” Vanessa explained.  “Jack owns his images already, so that wasn’t a problem.”  When I talked to owner Jack Hughes about the finished product, he said, “It really catches your eye.  People drive by the warehouse and they comment on the stand out there.  The big explosions and big round logo really catch your eye.  Everybody really likes it.”

Signs for Success is a locally owned family business in Spokane, and we strive for excellent customer service, perfect color, and quick turnaround on every project.  Our large production facility allows us to design, print and install everything in-house.  Get quality service and a quick turnaround on a vinyl wrap or container wrap.  Contact us for a free quote! See the video

Custom boat wraps for Alaskan fishing boats designed by Signs for Success, boat wraps spokane

Boat Wraps Spokane look great in Alaskan Waters

Custom boat wraps for Alaskan fishing boats designed by Signs for Success, boat wraps spokane

Custom boat wraps for Alaskan fishing boats designed by Signs for Success

George Basargen came to Signs for Success in the spring with ideas on outfitting his two fishing boats, the Roulette and the Black Pearl.  Because he didn’t have specific look in mind, but gravitated towards a certain style, Signs for Success designer Will Oakley listened to his ideas and met with him several times to discuss and proof the boat wrap design.  George loved the results and quickly had the designs printed and installed in time for the fishing season.

The colorful boat wraps Spokane make George’s fishing boats stand out from all the rest, which was just what he was going for.

“George’s boat wraps were one of my favorite projects because the customer gave me free reign with the graphics. He had some very simple guidelines

Insalling fishing boat graphics

Installing Graphics on the “Millenium Roulette ” fishing boat headed for Alaska

he asked me to follow but other than that I was able to really be creative with the layouts and designs,” Will explained.  “When you’re paying someone to design something for you, look at what they have done in the past.  If their style is similar to what you like you should use them; if it isn’t you should go somewhere else.  George really likes my style of over-the-top effects and details.  If he wanted something milder I wouldn’t have been as good a fit, and we would have spent a lot more time working on a design he may not have been as happy with.”

Our experienced design team represents different styles, from minimalistic to modern to over-the-top with details and color.

Boat wraps are manufactured with high performance vehicle wrap vinyl.  After the wrap is printed, we apply a satin finish laminate with UV protection.  The photo above was taken in Cordova, Alaska at the end of the fishing season (Photography by David Little).  The boat wraps  are just as vibrant as the day they were installed, and they will be sure to last many fishing seasons to come.  Contact us for a free quote on boat wraps Spokane today!