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

1. Vancouver’s municipal government is now seeking the public’s input as it plans the first major update of the city’s signage bylaws since 1989, to reflect recent advances in technology.

2. Cosmetics retailer Sephora has opened its first Canadian ‘teach, inspire, play’ (TIP) workshop store in Toronto’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre, using digital signage to introduce a more interactive approach to shopping.

3. McRae Imaging, a digital textile printing company based in Mississauga, Ont., will produce backdrops and displays for the 2017 Invictus Games in Toronto.

4. X-Rite Pantone, which develops colour measurement and management systems, software and services, has donated an i1Pro 2 spectrophotometer to the Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA) for use in colour management training courses.

5. The global large-format printer market will be worth more than $8.4 billion U.S. by 2022, led by support for signage applications, according to two new reports from Research and Markets, based in Dublin, Ireland, and MarketsandMarkets, based in Pune, India.