5 things to know

Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:

1. Toronto-based Eventscape was recently contracted to engineer, fabricate and install a 16.5 x 1.4-m (54 x 4.5-ft) custom art wall to adorn a new pedestrian mews area in one of the city’s shopping centres, The Shops at Don Mills.

2. The Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) has announced the winners of is Product of the Year Awards for 2017. From a total of 222 entries, 49 rose to the top, across a wide variety of categories.

3. Montreal-based experiential design studio Float4’s RealMotion interactive digital signage platform is being used to power a number of high-profile video wall projects, both on land and at sea.

4. The Canadian Out-of-Home Measurement Bureau (COMB) has completed its 2017 audit of out-of-home (OOH) advertising firms. For the third year in a row, the results show the companies are delivering data that is nearly 100 per cent accurate.

5. Toronto-based environmental graphic design (EGD) firm Entro, known for planning wayfinding sign systems, is relocating senior associate Gord McTaggart to Calgary to help expand its Western Canadian office.