FDU Gets a Whole New Look!

FDU-Ped-Dir
FDU-Ped-Dir
FDU-Village
FDU-Village

For the past 8 months we have been working with Fairleigh Dickinson University to survey, design, fabricate and install a new updated way-finding system for both of their NJ campuses in Teaneck/Hackinsack and Florham Park. This past month has been especially intense to instal over 150 signs during the rainiest June in recent memory. Attached are examples of the new system which include a formal model featuring a custom water jet cut solid aluminum grille surrounding the university seal, a pedestrian model to help the students navigate their way across the many park-like paths across campus with building identification signs that compliment the directional signs. The project also involved Welcome signs, traffic and parking signs as well as Admissions directionals. It was a long term challenging project, but we have received many compliments from the University Administration and students alike.

Back Home

We're back in the office after 1 week in Minnesota learning the art of hand lettering from one of the greats, Mike Meyer. Learned a lot, laughed a lot and made some great new friends. Thanks for inviting us into your world Mike. I need a bit of practice but we will definately be adding hand painting to the growing list of services we can offer our customers. Hand painted letters has a long and proud tradition that had been in the background with the introduction of computers, but it is making a comeback. Computers as great as they may be can not replicate the beauty of a hand painted brushstroke and a freely drawn design. Attached is our first effort and glimse of betters things to come.

Hey Look, we're on TV!

Meyers-Interview
Meyers-Interview

Today Heide Wigdahl, a local news reporter for KARE 11 News, an NBC affiliate out of Minneapolis stopped by our workshop to capture the event and interview Mike and a few of the attendees including yours truelly. Heide did an amazing job of mixing sound, editing and interviewing. Take a look and see the Master, Mike Meyers at work painting a shop window!Click on the following link and see for yourself! kare11.com: http://www.kare11.com/story/news/local/minnesota/2015/05/08/southeastern-minn-sign-painter-keeps-craft-alive/27008027/

Back to School

If you were knocking on my door this week it wasn't because were hiding from you, it's because we were way out of town, in beautiful rural Mezeppa, Minnesota, home of the famous sign painter Mike Meyers. I am participating in an intensive 4 day instruction in the art of hand lettering. Almost a dying art, Mike is bringing it back by teaching the new generation of sign makers how to create without a computer and produce beautiful hand made signs that are a work of art with a soul that a computer generated facsimile will never have. The golden age of the hand painted sign may be in the rear view, but I hope to bring a more of this hand crafted art into all of our future signs.