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3 unusual facts about signage


American Sign Museum

The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio, preserves, archives, and displays a collection of signs.

LED display

They are typically used outdoors in store signs and billboards, and in recent years have also become commonly used in destination signs on public transport vehicles or even as part of transparent glass area.

Signage

With a 100+ year history, one of the best known signs in the world is the Times Square Ball, located at One Times Square, New York City.


ANC Sports

ANC directed LED installations and was selected to provide ongoing operational services for digital fascia and scoreboard signage at venues such as Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena, Minnesota's Target Center, Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center and Toronto's Air Canada Centre from 2002 through 2006.

Following its new relationship with Mitsubishi, the company has completed large LED signage projects such as the Washington Nationals’ new ballpark, Washington D.C.’s Verizon Center and Portland’s Rose Garden.

Barton Creek Square

In November 1981, the mall became the first in Texas to have Braille and bold print signage throughout the center.

Bruce Munro

He moved to Australia in 1984, where he created a commercial design company providing advertising signage for corporate clients such as Qantas and Honda.

Cambridge visual networks

CODA Content Delivery Architecture, its cloud-based digital signage platform, is available globally via a network of channel partners.

Digital signage

In 2009, Texas State Technical College created an associate’s degree in Digital Signage Technology, using their Second Life delivery system.

Festivals in Nigeria

The Festival of Light event is a pre- Lagos Countdown event which started in 2012, it is organised by the Lagos Countdown Government and supervised by Lagos Countdown Signage and Advertisements Agency (LASAA) in conjunction with the Lagos State Electricity Board.

Interstate 15

At Sweet Grass, I-15 terminates upon crossing the Canadian border into the province of Alberta; however, I-15 signage is present on Alberta Highway 4 southbound from Lethbridge to the U.S.-Canada border.

Jan Lorenc

The firm identifies its work as "environmental communication design," a body of work that includes museums and visitors centers, trade show exhibits, theme park design, signage, retail spaces, and furniture for organizations including Mayo Clinic, Coca-Cola, North Carolina State University, Georgia-Pacific, Haworth Furniture Company, General Motors, Bank of America, General Mills and Sony-Ericsson.

Jonathan Frieman

Frieman's defense states that the wording of the restrictive highway signage refers specifically to "persons"; therefore, case law is applicable, going back to U.S. legal decisions from the 19th century, including Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad and to the more widely known 2010 "corporate personhood" case titled Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

Keystone Markers

A system of roadside signage developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Highways just after the First World War, the iconic Keystone Markers could be found at the entrance to every Pennsylvania town, borough and city.

Legoland Windsor Resort

In September 2010, the park's high quantity of wasps during the season was featured on Watchdog, with general manager Sue Kemp appearing with host Anne Robinson and confirming new signage, actions and details on the website.

Lyons Maid

The Lyons Maid brand logo, sometimes known as the 'Good Time Sign' but more generally referred to in house as the 'Dancing Children' was initially developed by advertising agency Young & Rubicam to identify the brand in CTN' s (corner sweet shops) and later on packaging and on ice cream vans but was eventually phased in across the whole product range where it continued to be used on branding and shop signage until Lyons Maid was sold to Nestlé in 1992.

Maine State Route 121

However, signage indicates the end of the route to be at the intersection of Minot Avenue and Washington Street, which carries U.S. Route 202, Route 4, and Route 100.

Manic Panic

The NYC store's front and signage are featured prominently in a shot in the opening montage of Saturday Night Live's 1980-81 season.

Manulife Financial Centre

Manulife Financial, one of the world's largest insurance firms, has signed a lease for 8 floors of Kwun Tong 223, making it the largest tenant in the building and giving it rights to rename the building and to mount signage on the building itself.

Museum railway station

Museum's signage and cream tiling with maroon highlights are reminiscent of a typical London Underground tube station of the era, however its layout of central tracks under a grand arch are more in keeping with older stations of the Paris Metro.

Onestop Media Group

In early 2004, Fourth Wall approached the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), through then static advertising incumbent, CBS Outdoor (then named Viacom Outdoor) with a new concept of digital signage as an information network, that was 100% supported by ad dollars.

In the summer of 2004, the TTC awarded the rights to a pilot and eventual contract to Fourth Wall, that then spun off the digital signage subsidiary, Onestop Media Group to handle the Toronto Transit Commission and all future digital signage contracts.

Pamela Holm

Her pre-literary résumé includes painting needlepoint patterns, installing neon signage, designing luggage, enlarging photos from weapons tests sites, decorating sets for rap videos, and sewing hats for the Pillsbury Doughboy.

Paul Mijksenaar

Mijksenaar is a specialist in creating visual information systems, such as wayfinding signage for railway stations and airports including New York's JFK and LaGuardia, New Jersey's Newark, and Amsterdam's Schiphol.

Quicken Loans Arena

In 2005, Cavaliers majority owner Dan Gilbert (owner of Quicken Loans) renovated the arena, installing new seats, state of the art scoreboards, video systems, sound systems, arena graphics, signage, security, locker rooms, and suite upgrades, all of which were in place for the start of the Cavaliers 2005–2006 season, except for the seats, which were replaced a few sections at a time.

Scala, Inc

The Company's multimedia software platform powers the digital signage networks of Rabobank, IKEA, Bloomberg Television, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin Megastores, Disneyland Resort Paris, McDonald's, Warner Bros., Shell, Esso, Ericsson, The Life Channel, and IBC-13.

Sentosa Express

Station name signage and system map signage at the stations are in the three languages used by the majority of visitors—English, Chinese (simplified) and Japanese (Katakana phonetization), hence the inclusion of Japanese even though it is not one of the national official languages.

Signage systems

One of the most commonly cited examples of a well-designed signage system is the London Underground.

Subway Hero

The scene that takes place at the Rockefeller Center subway station was actually filmed on the 42nd Street Shuttle platform at the Grand Central subway station, with prop signs reading "47–50 Sts – Rockefeller Center" placed over the original signage, and a Shuttle train relabeled as a D train.

Taxicab Confessions

Separating the segments are short video montages showing life in the city, incorporating quick cuts of club interiors, flashing neon signage, strippers and the homeless, along with the series theme music, "Over the Rainbow" by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.

The Plainfields

Signage for Exit 40 on Interstate 78, for example, refers to "The Plainfields" as a destination.

Washington State Route 203

At North High Rock Road, there will be a new left turn lane installed and the rest of the route will have guard rails, rumble strips, updated signage, pavement markings and new lighting.


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