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

1. Compagnie Finzi Pasca is planning a new multimedia show, Montreal Avudo, to help celebrate Montreal’s 375^th anniversary next year. The production will take place in the west section of the city’s old port, near Convoyeurs Quay and the Montreal Science Centre.

2. Artist Drew Mosley recently unveiled new wildlife-themed murals on pillars at Toronto’s Pottery Road underpass, just north of the Todmorden Mills Museum, to help celebrate the beauty of the Don River Valley greenspace and the nearby Broadview Avenue community.

3. The global market for digital signage and professional flat-panel displays continues to grow, but consumer-grade TVs are posing significant competition for commercial-grade products, according to market research firm IHS Technology.

4. Andrew Hejnar, energy manager for graphic film supplier 3M Canada in London, Ont., has been named one of Delta Management Group and the Clean50 organization’s newest award winners for reducing power consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

5. One of the hottest trends in digital wide-format printing today, thanks to ongoing technological developments, is textile graphics. Vince Cahill, owner and president of technical market research and consulting firm VCE Solutions, keeps an eye on this market as it evolves.