2024 WSA Awards

2024 WSA Awards

Sep 13, 2024 | News

We’re so excited to announce that our Creative Sign team had a personal best in this year’s Wisconsin Sign Association Design Awards!  We took home 12 total awards.

Creative Sign swept the Vehicle Graphics category, winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place!

For the first time, Creative Sign won the Designer’s Choice award!

The winners were:

Creative Sign Co – Pylon – 2nd place – Bill Vandermause

Neenah High School – EMC – 3rd place – Nicole Mattson

Neenah High School – Designer’s Choice – Nicole Mattson

Scottland Yard Business Complex –EMC – 2rd place – Timothy Porter

Bona Fide Juicery – Awning & Building Entrance – 3rd place – Bill Vandermause

Amerilux – Directional/Wayfinding/ADA – 3rd place – Timothy Porter

Paws N Motion – Vehicle – 3rd place – Timothy Porter 

NativeAmericans.com – Vehicle – 2nd  place – Bill Vandermause

Newcap – Vehicle – 1st place – Bill Vandermause

Pacos Tacos – Logo Design – 1st place – Bill Vandermause

Maiden Lake – Most Difficult Fab/Install – 3rd place – Bobbi Johnson

Plug Light Bulb Tiny Truck Wrap – Silly Sign – 1st place – Bill Vandermause

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See more of our Award Winning Signs

 

New Design Loft + Upper Offices

New Design Loft + Upper Offices

Jan 20, 2022 | News

New year, new Design space!  Our Design Team’s long-awaited migration to our Design Loft + Upper Offices is finally here.  With fun graphics and signage everywhere, as well as new mood and color match friendly lighting, our self-proclaimed Sign Nerds are settling in and getting inspired in their new space.  Swing by Creative Sign for a tour of our facility and make sure to stop by the upper level!

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Our giant glasses are made from budget-friendly Gatorfoam, painted to match our accent wall.  Tiny nails hang up our Chemmetal laminate samples that flutter in a breeze.   And for those unfamiliar with the sign industry, “a box on a stick” is what we call a boring pylon sign.  (Our Fab team hates building boxes on sticks, and our Design team hates drawing them, so bring us your challenges and let our masters work!)

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Our own projects always take the back burner when we are crazy busy with customer projects, so we are happy to finally wrap this one up!  It was an amazing group effort.  Thank you to all that helped make this happen:

Demolition:  Tim Roffers, Amanda Schwartz, Bill Vandermause, Nicole Mattson, Timothy Porter, Greg Wilson

Painting:  Amanda Schwartz, Bill Vandermause, Nicole Mattson, Timothy Porter, Bridget Novak, Chris Carr, Pete Thomas, Bobbi Johnson, Elizabeth Kirsteatter, Derek Fuller

Printing:  Joe Bott

Graphics Install:  Bailey Schulte, John Slaby, Amanda Schwartz, Bill Vandermause, Bobbi Johnson

Routing:  Andy Heyrman

3D Printing:  Jay Mathu

Sign & Counter Painting:  Bill Prokash

Counter Install:  Greg Wilson

Sign Install: Bill Vandermause, Sean Barrett, John Slaby

Flooring:  Mike Thomas, Andy Parshen

Flooring/Trim:  Ray Polomis

Lighting/Electrical:  Thomas Electric

Tech Assistance:  Technology Architects

General Help:  Greg Wilson, Brian Meyer, Tim Schultz, Peyton Czarapata, Darrin Kuhn

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What a difference paint and vinyl can make!  Our Upper Offices were formerly our neon room… so we’re giving a nod to its past life with some neon signs we came across during clean up.  Every square inch needed a paint job – stairs and corrugated ceiling included!  But the work was worth it.  Graphics color matched the vinyl applied to our PMS staircase and full vinyl prints were applied to all doors.  Bright, graphic colors, playful signage, and raw metal accents make this new space into a shrine to the sign industry.  Even an unused tube turned into a Mario pipe and a utility room panel is decked out with glow in the dark LOTR vinyl.

 

It’s really a shame we don’t have any fun here….

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