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

1. The National Geographic Society is bringing an outdoor exhibit, ‘Climate Change is Here,’ to the Plaza Bridge in downtown Ottawa’s Confederation Square. The large-scale visual display showcases photos from the society’s reports on the topic throughout the years.

2. Last month, Manchester City’s Premier League win was celebrated with digitally projected images of the soccer team’s players onto buildings in each of their home cities around the world.

3. The sign, graphics and visual communications industry is poised for continued above-average growth into 2019, according to the International Sign Association’s (ISA’s) latest quarterly economic report.

4. Bourquin Printers & Signs in Abbotsford, B.C., has added its second Mimaki JFX200-2513 ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) light-emitting diode (LED) flatbed printer, supplied by Focus Pre-Press Systems of Surrey, B.C.

5. NEC Display Solutions recently donated more than 2,000 commercial-grade displays, including video walls and touch screens, to Mercy Ships, an international volunteer organization that offers free health care on hospital ships to people in the developing world.