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Friday, March 19, 2010

New h2o sign!






After almost one year, we finally
have a sign about our place of business. But it's not just any sign. What else would you expect from a creative group!?

You need the back story first. Before we were h2o creative group, we were Hambright and Associates Design. We had a sign made, and then got in trouble from our landlord for not having "raised letters" on the sign, per the sign codes in our lease. Well, it took us a long time to finally have our sign remade and it was a pretty big pain in the neck... Considering the effect wasn't even noticeable.

So fast fwd three years...

We create h2o creative group and need a sign. We're just too dang busy to get something going. Then an epiphany. One of our employees has a father that is retired and has nothing better to do than play around in his work shop. So we draw him fullscale plans and let him go to town! The end result is nothing BUT raised letters! At roughly 30" tall, each letter is made from several pieces of 2" thick insulation foam, that has been glued together, cut to shape, epoxied for resilance and painted to match! It looks amazing. George also made a custom mount for it so stands up just right!

Now, taking it a step further is what we're all about. I researched online and found two LED bulbs that change colors! I had them mounted on the roof in watertight floodlight housings since the bulbs are interiour only. The effect is AWESOME!


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1 comment:

Joe Loehle said...

Sign looks good, but if I recall, the problem with the sign wasn;t the raised lettering, it was a raised border....