Wall Wraps & Graphics can go a long way in the representation of your company, for both your customers as well as your employees. A wall wrap of a tropical beach at the airport can instantly bring you in a holiday mood and the same applies in an office environment, let alone another message. These type of graphics are a cornerstone for visual communication and can help to communicate your company values and represent your company culture.
Where to use Wall Wraps & Graphics
One of the main advantages of Wall Wraps & Graphics are that they can be used on any type of wall in your office. Even a textured wall is no problem since a special type of vinyl is available for that. The most popular places for a wall graphics are in the lobby and the conference room. However your training room, staff cafeteria or even restrooms are possibilities too. Due to a protective lamination, wall wraps can also be used in high traffic areas without being damaged.
Design for Wall Wraps & Graphics
The design can be as simple as a single image, but still have a big impact. When using a single image for a wall wrap it’s important to have a high resolution picture, to avoid pixilation. Our design team can propose an image or will review it’s quality of your own image. The design of a wall wrap doesn’t need to stop there and the options are endless. Wall Graphics can be used to communicate the core values of your company, for example your mission statement. Other options are your company’s history or motivational wording for your employees. Our experienced designers will be able to come up with a unique design to elevate your office design and communicate the right message.
Wall Preparations
After the initial planning of where to install the graphics and creating the design, our team will review the surface of the wall. For the best results it’s important for the wall to be smooth, since the wall is thin, small chips in the wall might be visible. Furthermore it’s important that the wall has low VOC paint otherwise the vinyl adhesive might not stick well. Lastly the wall needs to be as clean as possible and therefore our team will clean the wall with alcohol prior to the installation.
In summary, a wall wrap is a great product to enhance your office space. As a design element to elevate your office or to communicate a message. Contact our experts today for a visit to your office for your next wall wrap. You can call us at (925) 300-1066 or email to [email protected].
When opening a new restaurant, marketing and signage is important. There are a variety of signage options that restaurants use to make their interior/exterior eye-catching and attractive. Here are some helpful tips to maximize the impact of your restaurant signage.
Exterior Restaurant Signage
Restaurant signs should stand tall and get noticed so they can be spotted by all those who pass by. If you want your business to really stand out, investing in Channel Letters will make a lasting impression on anybody who passes by. A channel letter is a custom-made, 3-dimensional letter sign fabricated from sheet metal (usually aluminum or plastic). They can remain unlit or they can be illuminated so that marketing doesn’t have to stop when the sun goes down. As a result, illuminated channel letters will help your business be seen and noticed even when it’s dark out.
Utilize your Store Front Windows, and Interior Walls
Utilize your store front windows and doors and your interior walls with vinyl decals and graphics! Made from adhesive vinyl, decals make displaying restaurant hours, promotions, logos and food photography a piece of cake! Furthermore, there are many options of vinyl that you can use to be creative with your window or wall graphics. You can use clear decals, perforated window film, static clings and more!
Show Off your Menu
Show your customers why they should eat at your restaurant by displaying a clean and attractive menu on your walls! These menu signs should display your current menu while promoting your restaurant brand. They can be made from several different materials, but one of our most popular signs are made from aluminum with a printed vinyl overlay. Furthermore, if you need help establishing a design for your brand or menu, our in-house graphic design services can work with you directly to turn your creative vision into reality!
Have questions about what type of signage you need for your restaurant? Give us a call! Our team of experts can work with you to have your restaurant ready for your grand opening! 925-300-1066
When it comes to business signage, creativity can go further than you think. One stellar example is the variety and creativity found when using vinyl graphics for your business.
Not only are these graphics flexible and durable, they’re also eye-catching and bring messages and advertisements in even the most unlikely places. This allows your business to get its name and message out in many dynamic ways while boosting the aesthetic look of your advertisements overall. For more information on how you can use these graphics for your business, keep reading!
Mobile Advertising
While you have probably seen mobile advertising in the form of vehicle lettering and car graphics on car doors and windows, vinyl graphics allow for such versatility for vehicle and mobile advertising that possibilities are endless.
In addition to the typical door and window ads, a business vehicle can actually be completely wrapped in custom vinyl graphics or vehicle decals, which brings big eye-catching design to your mobile ads. These wraps can be completely customized from the color down to the vinyl materials; like sticker-type vinyl wraps or even magnets.
Additionally, vinyl graphics don’t only stop with cars. Motorcycles, bicycles and even boats can sport your advertisement or message, allowing for new avenues to reach your target and spread the word about your business.
Lobby and Window Graphics
Your business’ lobby and window are also a great place to feature custom signs, graphics or vinyl lettering. These messages can be anything from your business’s name and mission statement to wayfinding signage, advertisements, and business information like hours and a phone number.
Whatever the needs of your business, there is a custom vinyl solution for you—it all comes to down to how creative you would like to be.
Floor Graphics
Another outstanding use of vinyl graphics is the incorporation of floor graphics. This method can be used to take advantage of another advertising surface as well as provide a unique approach to wayfinding signage.
Floor graphics also offer a boost to your business’ overall aesthetic and interior design by use of vinyl decals, lettering, and custom graphics. If you can imagine it, your business can display it. Even if the graphic isn’t an advertisement, but simply a company message or even an aesthetically-pleasing design, floor graphics should definitely be considered to help your visitors remember your business.
Seasonal Advertising
An often overlooked way to utilize vinyl graphics is or Seasonal advertising. Because vinyl graphics are both durable and easy to remove when needed, they make for perfect seasonal means of advertising.
This way, your business can ensure it hits all possible advertising opportunities like holidays, sales, and seasonal specials. A creative way to use seasonal advertising is by focusing on custom vinyl banners, window graphics and graphic decals and both of which will provide great aesthetics to your business while displaying any seasonal advertisement effectively.
At Sequoia Signs, we love the creativity of vinyl graphics and what they can do for our customers. If you’re ready to make this creative, aesthetically-pleasing, and effective signage work for you, then reach out to us today for your free quote!
When it comes to signs and advertising for your business, there are several highly customizable options available from decals to monument signs and dozens in between. One type of signage, vinyl banners, have been around a bit longer than the others, but they aren’t going anywhere any time soon.
Vinyl banners are a great way to get your business noticed, spreading your message with ease, simplicity, and convenience. We’ve created a quick guide covering the outstanding benefits of vinyl banners to show how easy it is to bring this simple-yet-powerful tool to your business’ advertising arsenal.
Cut Down on Costs
Naturally, business owners will seek any opportunity to cut costs and save money when it comes to advertising. Savvy business owners, on the other hand, will only do so as long as quality is upheld to ensure their advertising has a high ROI. By choosing vinyl banners, owners can take advantage of both lower costs and high-quality signage that works.
Choosing a vinyl banner is a cost-efficient choice due to the lower material and printing costs compared to other custom signs. The extreme outdoor weather durability these banners provide also make it a strong and lasting choice, while their reusability power is unmatched by other forms of signage.
Take Advantage of Customization
Customization is key in advertising. It helps your message spread in a unique way and brings attention to your business and your business only. Vinyl banners are highly customizable, and taking advantage of this feature provides nothing but high-powered advertising for any business needs.
If your custom banner needs to have a certain printed message, font, graphic, image or anything, really, it can. The options to make your banners unique to your message are unlimited. You can design the banner in-house, have it designed by our agency, or even use pre-made templates to bend to your will and needs.
The materials can vary as well. You can choose all-vinyl or solid fabric banners, or transparent mesh banners as well. Each provides similar benefits are far as customization, aesthetics, and durability.
Test the Perfect Location
One of the most exciting benefits of business banners is the absolute versatility when choosing a display location. By using a flat display style hung up by grommets, a custom banner can be easily moved until it finds its perfect location, whether that is outside on the side of a building or indoors with a lobby.
If only two grommets are used, event banners can become flags for an even more unique approach. Alternatively, free-standing retractable banners paired with banner stands also allow for maximum portability and are perfect for conventions, conferences, and expos.
Think Outside of the Banner
Because of the vast versatility of these signs, business owners have the opportunity to think outside of the box (or banner). The technology involved in banner printing allows for a lot of flexibility. Your custom banner can be double-sided for maximum exposure or to have two functioning banners in one to use at will.
The durable and lasting materials also allow for a great range of usage as well, so banners need not only be used for business advertising. Alternatively, these signs can be used for just about any message you can think of from directional signs to attention-grabbing event flyers, and whatever else you can come up with to serve your needs.
If you’re ready to make your advertising easy and convenient with vinyl banners, Sequoia Signs is ready to help you get started! Contact us today and let’s make your banners work for you.
Modern trade show and event banners come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some main categories to discuss to help buyers narrow down their options.
Common Banner Materials
Vinyl
Vinyl signs and banners have long been the first choice for businesses looking to promote and advertise and it’s easy to see why. Vinyl lends itself to bright colors, is waterproof, can be cut to any shape, and is phenomenally affordable. Along with being extremely durable, vinyl is very easy to print and can be produced nearly on-demand. Use Heavy-Duty vinyl for outdoor environments, matte-vinyl for indoor signs, and glossy vinyl for short-term outdoor promotions.
Fabric
Fabric banner displays are most commonly made from polyester, nylon, satin, or other synthetic fibers. Thanks to modern technology they can be printed and stretched quickly and efficiently and offer an ideal material for indoor and outdoor retail signage. In particular, fabric lends itself to a more comfortable, permanent-feeling banner thanks to its unique texture and warmth.
Common Banner Shapes
Feather and Teardrop Banners
Feather and teardrop banners are low cost and easy to pack up and transport. Looking like a feather hanging off a pole, they are extremely simple in design, easy to set up, and can be equipped with a variety of different fabrics or designs for different circumstances.
Flagpole Banners
While similar to the banners mentioned above, flagpole banners instead use a straight metal pole and a perpendicular top pole. The banner itself is in a rectangle and the entire design can be sized up or down as you have need. Interestingly, scientists suggest that rectangular banners be married with curved graphics, as the human brain responds better to arches than abrupt angles or clean lines.
Rectangular Hanging Banners or Banner Stands
When banners are mounted above an exhibit, hanging for the ceiling, or on a different mount that holds them perpendicular to the ground, they are typically designed to be square. The use of height in these circumstances draws the eye up or down, depending, and pulls visitors into your store or trade show booth.
Common Banner Sign Sizes
Signs can typically be produced for whatever size or purpose you need. However, if you need a standard size rectangular banner some common sizes include:
2’x3’
3’x2’
2’x4’
3’x5’
3’x6’
3’x8’
4’x8’
Common approximate feather banner sizes include:
10’
15’
16.4’
19.7
You should also keep in mind that the thicker your banner material, the more sturdy, durable, and longer-lasting it will be. If you would like to order custom business banners or develop a logo or design today, please contact Sequoia Signs & Graphics, Inc. of Walnut Creek, CA at (925) 300-1066 or via [email protected]
TOM SCHNURR
Sequoia Signs & Graphics is an architectural sign company that provides comprehensive signage solutions for multifamily housing developments, business parks, and campuses. Our innovative approach combines project branding with wayfinding to create differentiated and unique sign packages. As a full-service sign manufacturer, we manage projects from concept to installation throughout Northern California.
