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The Advantage of Using a Custom Banner at Your Next Function

Here at customsigns.com we make creating and owning your very own custom banner as easy as possible.

With all the fall festivals, pumpkin patches, county fairs, and community events going on this time of year the need for banners has never been so in demand! Not to mention all of the year round school functions, and fundraisers that could also greatly benefit from the use of a custom banner. An awesome tool for advertisers and far more portable than a monster sign, banners are flexible and can be rolled or folded up and easily transported from event to event. Given that banners are so easy to transport, they can also just as easily be conveniently stored and tucked away for the next event that comes along.custom fundraiser banner

What better way to raise awareness for a cause or an event on-the-go, than with the use of a banner? This portable sign will undoubtedly attract attention from passerby’s as well as from cars on the road if you happen to be set up off to the side somewhere.

Whether you just want a banner with some simple text or your own custom artwork, we’ve got you covered! We currently offer four different size banners for you to choose from. To give you the best chance of getting noticed by as many people as possible, we’ve also thrown in a double sided option, in which your text, art, or both will appear (you guessed it!) on BOTH sides of the banner!custom banner

Because these banners can be easily transported and stored, you will have your for years to come if you happen to work for a charitable cause or oversee an annual pumpkin patch or set up your annual booth at your local county fair! By using a big banner you will increase your profits and ultimately be making more money, or gaining more donations than ever before because let’s face it, if your audience can’t see you, then they have no idea what you are selling or trying to raise awareness for. Using a custom banner will increase visibility which will increase profits- and as an added bonus it isn’t just a one-time-use kind of product!

Use one of our custom banner to get noticed!

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CustomSigns.com Provides Signs for Cummer Museum

Cummer Museum and Gardens
Cummer Museum and Gardens

This past week at CustomSigns.com it was our privilege and honor to help out the Cummer Museum & Gardens with some snazzy new signage for their premises.

The Cummer Museum in sunny Jacksonville Florida is even more unique than the standard cut-and dry museum. It plays host to both a permanent collection as well as ones that travel around to different museums or belongs to other collections whether the collections are personal or public and also possesses a beautifully well taken care of garden consisting of live oak trees, rare plants, antique ornaments surrounding its premises and even relaxing fountains. The garden itself is over 100 years old is constantly being tended and taken care of.

Our engraved signs are perfect for museum purposes. If you’ve ever been to a museum, you know just how many various forms of art reside within those walls- not to mention the countless sculptures both inside as well as outside.Cummer Museum and Gardens

But ultimately, with all the unique paintings, sculptures, and plants, engraved signs take the guess work out of trying to figure out just what exactly they all are and why they’re so unique or great.

Beauty is said to be in the eye of the beholder and let’s face it, paintings and sculptures can sometimes makes us go cross-eyed. Not all museums can afford to keep multiple tour guides employed to personally introduce you to every artistic artifact, who created it, in what year, during which movement, what it was made with, or why it deserves to be in a museum to begin with. This is where the monumental importance of signs comes into play.

With custom engraved signs such as these, all of this information can be quickly communicated with visitors in a way that doesn’t disrupt their own individual experiences. Here at CustomSigns.com we work hard to make sure that the design and ultimate creation of these signs is as quick and painless a process as necessary. We also aim to ship every order we receive within one business day of receiving it- that way you can get on with enjoying the benefits of your custom sign without having to wait two weeks or more for it to come in the mail!

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Mr. Croft Goes To Washington

Hello blog world! This is your humble CEO Bryan Croft coming to you live from Jacksonville, Florida!

While most of the time, I find myself running around the building, checking in on people, and in meetings- I have a wife and three kids who also demand my attention. And as any parent can tell you, the summer months mean summer vacation! This year, the family and I packed up and headed north to our nation’s capital in D.C.

Now since I’ve been in the sign industry for over twelve years, naturally anytime I go anywhere my eye is immediately drawn to all the signage.  Sign, sign, everywhere a sign! Okay I’m done, I promise. What I’m really trying to say is, while we may not actively be aware of it, we are constantly surrounded by signs. They may come in different sizes, types, or colors- but in today’s world, it’s impossible to avoid them and they are all designed with the same purpose in mind- to get your attention!

Well for me they work twice as well. My wife hates it when I walk up to a sign and rub it to determine the manufacturing process – is it Vinyl? Maybe its screen printed?  Sublimated? Is it rotary engraved or is it laser engraved (and yes there is a difference). But I can’t help it! And what I’ve discovered about these signs, is that so many of them, our company, CustomSigns.com can make! I know my wife probably finds it annoying, but I can’t help it!

Well anyway, getting back to our trip- the Florida heat followed us to D.C. so naturally the kids wanted to stop in every ice cream stand they laid eyes on. There are a lot of ice cream stands in D.C., therefore naturally we were walking all over the place. So to entertain myself, I started taking pictures of all the signs. Eventually we wandered in to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum- and while the exhibits were great, I was still taking pictures of all the signs. At least until my wife took over the picture taking responsibilities.

But besides the exhibits, what I was most blown away by were all the different types of signs that were there. People always seem to think that a sign is just a sign- what they don’t realize is just how many different variations of signs there are. Here are just some examples of the types of the signs I saw all of which we could easily make here at customsigns.com:

To some, this may just look like stickers, but they’re actually signs. The sign world is constantly evolving with the implementation of new technology and techniques and here at customsigns.com, we try our best to stay on top of it!

Another example of an engraved sign.
Another example of an engraved sign.

Here is another example of an engraved sign, though this time smaller and without Braille. The great thing about engraved signs is that they can be used indoor or outdoor and remain unaffected by the elements.

Elephant at the Smithsonian Museum
Elephant at the Smithsonian Museum

And here we have an elephant, and while we don’t make elephants, this was just a really cool picture of one 😀

People are always asking us, “What kind of signs do you make?”. And while technically we can make just about any kind of sign, approximately 80% of our business comes from people asking us for interior signs. These signs never lose their effectiveness, and as new technologies come along and give us the ability to improve upon their production, we here at CustomSigns.com will be taking full advantage in an attempt to improve your sign shopping experience!