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

1. Furniture retailer Urban Barn partnered this summer with Toronto’s transportation services division on the Outside the Box program, where the city’s traffic signal boxes are painted with original art to help deter graffiti vandalism.

2. To bring the sets of this summer’s Ghostbusters movie to life, the producers called on graphic designer Martin T. Charles, who used Roland DGA’s wide-format printing technology to produce everything from street signs to faux walls.

3. The Ontario Heritage Trust and the Hastings County Historical Society recently unveiled a plaque in Belleville, Ont., commemorating the Flying Frenchmen, a group of three original players for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team.

4. While the digital signage industry looks to the future at trade shows around the world, many of the benefits of innovative technology are already being enjoyed across Canada.

5. Pattison Outdoor promoted the new Netflix series Stranger Things with Toronto subway station pillar wraps featuring telephones that rang every three minutes with frightening messages for passersby.