Design tutorials, sign industry insights, and project highlights from Victoria BC’s leading custom sign fabricators.
Are you one of our “tech-savvy” customers who already knows the in’s and out’s of design software? Make use of our 4 FREE sandwich board designs to get started on the creative process. These sandwich board designs make use of our 10 FREE & Inspirational Color Schemes. Feel free to modify these board designs to…
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We understand the creative process and the very foundation is a great color scheme. We’ve compiled some unique and inspirational color schemes to help kick start your next website, sign, advertisement or business project. These color schemes are perfect in almost any application, be it vehicle wraps or graphics, real estate signage, sandwich boards or…
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There is a lot more to designing both indoor and outdoor signage than sometimes meets the eye. There are many questions and factors which we take into consideration both before and during the design process, to ensure that your signage project has the most impact. These following 5 factors are some of the key elements…
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With the strong emergence of digitally printed vehicle wraps, there are more options than ever before that we can offer you. If a full blown vehicle wrap is out of your budget, then a half wrap might be just the thing. Vehicle graphics have come a long way. There was a time when graphics and…
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The possibilities for being creative with vehicle wraps is endless. We’ve compiled a Top 9 list of vehicle wraps to help inspire you. At theSignPad we can produce high quality and stunning vehicle wraps for business or personal vehicles. These vehicle wrap examples serve as a way to help you understand what can be done…
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Floor graphics are a great way to create a unique and eye-catching advertisement. With a wide range of uses from recreation centers and shopping malls to corporate offices, their use is only limited to your creativity. Check out some of the creative uses below to help spawn some of your own unique ideas! If you…
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As a signage designer, one of the most powerful tools you will learn to use in Illustrator is the clipping mask tool. This tool will be one of the basics you will learn to use in creating everything from Vehicle Wraps, to complex signage designs.
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Follow us step by step as we create an 8ft x 4ft Real Estate Development Sign. Throughout the tutorial you will learn to get comfortable utilizing a variety of techniques and tools in illustrator that you may not already know.
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One of the easiest and most simple things you can do to improve your logo or design is to simply change the character tracking. Our quick illustrator tip shows you how to use tracking effectively in your designs.
This quick tip lesson involves using Opacity Masks in Illustrator. Unfortunately sometimes effects that are very easy to produce in Photoshop, aren’t as easy to obtain in Illustrator. However, I try to achieve as much as I can in Illustrator so that the artwork can be used across a variety of platforms.
