Well, let's start this blog with something fun. I watched two great films over last weekend. One was a French New Wave film by Jean-Luc Goddard called Vivre sa Vie, and the other was a Japanese film by Akura Kurosawa called Rashomon. Both are excellent, and I highly recommend them highly. My girlfriend and I also went on a date to the new Lawrence Library (what horrid Lawrencians we are-we hadn't even been there yet!) and I picked up a few comic books by an author known as Jason. Check him out.
Alright, now on to the homework stuff: Sign Up!
Sign Up is a local company that manufactures (say it with me, kids) signs, from small wayfinding signs to large aluminum facades. Their main clients are colleges, along with businesses. While Sign Up does some design, their job is most often to take their customers ideas and make them into reality, which may mean altering some parts of their dream sign so it can actually exist.
Sign Up's shop is an industrial building on the east side of Lawrence, large enough to deal with the larger signs (often up to 20 feet). Most signs are made out of aluminum, being a lighter metal. Cutting is done on a CNC router, along with jump shears. Welding and riveting are common methods of attatchment. For more precise cutting, or the need to cut thicker aluminum (below 6 gauge), they ship out of house.
Paint is mixed in house and sprayed on in their super badass spray booth, and then can be moved into a super badass huge oven to heat dry.
Digital decals can be printed in house in various manners.
And yeah, that's what they do. They were kinda cool, I guess
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