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The Goh Ballet’s Nutcracker
We helped Lugaro and Rolex prepare their sponsorship signage for Goh Ballet’s 2011 presentation of the Nutcracker.
Here are a couple of pictures.
Live at Amberleigh!
We just helped one of our best clients Morningstar Homes get ready for opening their new Burke Mountain community “Amberleigh”. It is a neighbourhood of 67 village-style single family homes (with detached rear garages) ranging in size from 3096 sq.ft. to 3238 sq.ft. and looks like a top notch development.
Here are a couple of pictures of their development signage and new houses. We will add more pictures of their additional signage in the future.
Cheers,
Speedpro Coquitlam
Scridb filterSpirit of Community Awards
Speedpro Coquitlam is a proud sponsor of the spirit of communities and would like your help in recognizing and celebrating the extraordinary people of the TriCities, Anmore and Belcarra who contribute their time and energy to strengthen and enhance our communities.
Nominations are now open in the following categories:
* Environment * Youth * Neighbour to Neighbour * Cultural Harmony * Community Action * Middle School Youth * Community Volunteerism *Arts and Culture * Douglas College Lifetime of Leadership in Honour of Myrna Popove.
Deadline for nominations is Friday, June 3rd, 2011.
To nominate someone, or for more information visit www.societyforcommunitdevelopment.com/community_awards or call 604.897.8478
Cheers,
SpeedPro Coquitlam
Scridb filter2010 Franchise of The Year
While our mothers told us we should never brag, this is definitely something to share. Speedpro Signs Canada (which is the largest group of signage and display product providers in Canada) has named us the top location in all of Canada for 2010. The award is based on our Sales volume. growth, ethics, innovation, employee satisfaction and community participation.
Glenn and Lynda, Owners of Speedpro Coquitlam, Accept the Award.
While the acknowledgement is nice, what we really appreciate is all of our customers, who have allowed us to serve them over the years, and supported us on our journey to become one of the best visual communications and marketing partners in B.C. and apparently Canada.
Thanks for your continued business and support!
Speedpro Imaging Coquitlam Team.
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Glenn and Lynda, Owners of Speedpro Coquitlam, Accept the Award.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Tradeshow Season.
It happens at least twice a year and many people find it even more stressful than Christmas. For us it starts before Christmas, when the best-organized call for quotes and to get the ball rolling, wanting to ensure that they will have their tradeshow booths in time. As the wave builds through January we see more and more people coming in closer and closer to their big show.
We love tradeshow season. We see certain customers that we haven’t seen all year and get to catch up. Everyone has big ideas that require some production knowhow and others are looking for a creative hand to fill out their 10’x10’ homestead. In the spirit of the season we have compiled 4 suggestions to help you out.
1.) Invest in your booth. This may seem self serving, but spending a little extra on flourishes like likes can make a $1000 tradeshow set up seem like a $5000 dollar one. People will ultimately make a quality judgment about your products based on the quality of your booth and your collateral.
2.) Money is secondary to creativity. Maybe you don’t need buy new banner-stands, but just replace the banners. Maybe you can get by with a continuous image over three banner stands for $900 instead of a 10’x10’ wall for $2000. If you are looking to brainstorm, talk to your graphic designer or a speciality graphics shop (like ours).
3.) Good booths prompt questions, not answers. To be perfectly honest, tradeshow displays aren’t sales people and won’t close sales. They need to a.) get you noticed and engage the person b) Establish your brands credibility, c.) give passersby an idea about what you sell and d.) Engage them to the point that they ask your exceptional sales people questions about the products.
4.) Set Goals and Calculate ROI. Tradeshows are not inexpensive; paying us is just the start. Paying you exhibitor fees, travel and the wages/meals for your best people to be gone for days on end is expensive. Set a goal for how many people you want to talk to, track how many turn into leads and ultimately sales. For many businesses (like this one) the tradeshow circuit
While there is lots of advice out there, I tried to keep this somewhat concise if you have questions call, and to be even more enticing we are offering 15% off our entire tradeshow catalogue as well as small promotion on our everyday low priced retractable banner stands, 50% off the lights with the purchase of the stands.
Scridb filterThe Taste of The TriCities.
Another edition of Taste of The Tri-Cities is in the books. Samplings from popular local restaurants, food and beverage manufacturers, cookbook authors, retailers, artisans and many others from the culinary world came together on Tuesday September 21 at the beautiful Red Robinson Show Theater at the Boulevard Casino. It was a phenomenal event and we hope to see you there next year.
For more information please visit: http://thetaste.ca/
Weekend to End Women’s Cancer.
During one amazing weekend, August 14-15, 2010, thousands will join together in a 60 km walk in support of the battle against all women’s cancers.
Speedpro Coquitlam has proudly contributed financially and through the donation of products to a local team for the upcoming event. We encourage you to also offer your fiscal support to the participants who have been campaigning relentlessly and who are giving of their time and stamina to help eradicate these terrible cancers
Scridb filterWay-Finding Signage.
If you are moving into a beautiful new building or you want to help your employees and customers navigate your current building; the answer is deploying a “Way-finding” signage system.
We have compiled some best practices for creating guiding signage below. If you have any additional questions or would like some ideas on how we help you deploy way-finding signage, please give us a call.
- Is your office a blank canvas for directional signs?
Way-finding Signage Considerations:
1.) Consistency
Consistency is the key to way-finding signage. Every sign should utilize the same visual elements and be placed in a similar manner. This creates a “system” that your visitors will recognize.
2.) Wording
Complicated technical terms may be fine for employees but not the general public. Customers tend to think in actions, they want to pay bills, make appointments, get service or place orders. Try to use language that facilitates the task they are looking to complete.
3.) Brevity
Determine which messages needs to stand out. Too much information can overwhelm the reader and keep them from their goal, which is to complete their transaction.
4.) Colour
It may seem obvious but use colors that contrast well so the message is easily visible. No yellow text on white back-grounds!
5.) Fonts/Typefaces
Block or San Serif fonts work better than intricate script fonts. Canadian federal buildings uniformly use Helvetica Medium, in all their signage to create a uniform and easy to read system nation-wide.
For more technical typographers out there; The American Disabilities Association(ADA) suggests Letters and numbers shall have a width-to-height ratio between 3:5 and 1:1 and a stroke-width to-height ratio between 1:5 and 1:10
6.) Flexibility
Where things are located within your building may change over time. Try to use a flexible signage system that allows you to update components easily.
Sign Placement Guidelines
In many cases the architect will have determined sign placement in a new building. For everyone else we have offered guidelines based on Speedpro’s experience.
- Way-finding placement guidelines.
1.) Inside Signage
Directory Signs – You don’t want people kinking their neck up or down to read information placed near the ceiling or the floor. Generally you
do not want the bottom to be lower than 4 feet and the top not higher than 7 feet at the top.
Door Signage – These need to be at eye level, of course everyone’s eye level is different, but generally you want to go between 4 ½ feet to 5 ½ feet from the ground. Always think about the audience, elementary schools are different than offices.
2.) Outside Signage
Parking Lot/Roadway Signs
According to a study by the SGIA , signs are most visible when placed within 20 degrees of the driver’s line of sight. If driving at 30 km/h the driver requires about 150 ft. In this case the sign needs to be 26 feet on either side of their direct line of vision. The diagram below demonstrates this:
Text Size - For Signs to be legible to someone while driving their car the font size should be at least 4 inches.
Height – These need to be visible above the roofs of most vehicles. This enables people to see them across a row of parked cars if needed. So 7 feet is generally suggested
Walkway Signs – These are usually seen from a distance so they don’t need to be exactly at Eyelevel. We suggest 5 feet off the ground.
- Parking Lot Signage Guidelines.
Hopefully this post helps you find your way, with regards to “Way-finding” Signage. If you want to see some more examples of our work, please click here and if have any questions about signs you can contact us by clicking here.
Scridb filterGet a head start on your Tradeshow planning
Speedpro Imaging Coquitlam is starting the New Year off with a bang! With an updated, vibrant website, thanks to the team at Ballistic Arts Media Studios Inc., and great new products we are ready to show you how we can help to improve your company’s visual impact in 2010.
With another Tradeshow season fast approaching we would like to introduce you to our January featured product. The Orient Retractable Banner Stand is an attractive, affordable, and portable solution for your event and presentation displays. This stand is 84” high and comes in three widths; with either an anodized silver or black finish and moulded end plates the Orient is both sleek and efficient.
Complete with a 3 piece bungee corded pole, this retractable stand folds down quickly and easily into its padded carrying and storage case. At less than 20lbs this great new product will easily accompany you to wherever your presentations will take you.
With the mantra of the last few years being Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, we encourage you to give us a call to see about replacement graphics for your stands. This is just another cost effective way we would like to help you improve your company’s image.
Ask us about the Double sided Orient Banner Stands.
31.5” wide, full colour, digitally printed graphics, stand and case Feature Price: $270
35.5” wide, full colour, digitally printed graphics, stand and case Feature Price: $310
39.5” wide, full colour, digitally printed graphics, stand and case Feature Price: $340
Scridb filterNew website
We are in the middle of re-working our website. Hoping to make it easier for you to use it and find information and help. We hope it will be a little faster, and we will be tweaking it over the next few months.
This is in fact a new section on the site, Called What’s New! Here you will be able to find the latest sales and promotions. Also listed here will be what is new with our company itself. New team members, new products, new services and more!
We will list our progress on the tweaking of the site, and for that we hope you might be able to help us out by telling us what you like, what you don’t like, what you would like to see and what should come down. We want to make this site as much yours as it is ours.
Some got some feedback? Got some ideas? Drop us a note and check back often!
Thanks!
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