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

1. Sports artist David Arrigo recently painted a large-scale Toronto Raptors mural at Sun Life Financial’s new headquarters (HQ) to commemorate the team’s run in this year’s National Basketball Association (NBA) playoffs.

2. Advanced, an audiovisual (AV) technology integrator based in Mississauga, Ont., has installed interactive product kiosks for Microsoft at eight Best Buy electronics stores across Canada, enabling motion-activated ads, tutorials and demonstrations.

3. Toronto’s 22^nd annual Contact Photography Festival is now on, with curated works by acclaimed and emerging artists featured across the city, including site-specific public art installations using digitally printed wide-format graphics.

4. Parks Canada installed a Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada plaque earlier this month at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, recognizing the 100-year-old facility’s contributions to astrophysics.

5. Principal LED, which manufactures light-emitting diode (LED) modules for signage, is actively seeking submissions of outstanding projects using its products for its spring 2018 ‘Making Brands Shine’ photo contest.