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

1. The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) recently transformed its Bathurst subway station overnight with the installation of temporary, hand-painted signage commemorating Honest Ed’s, an iconic local discount retail outlet that is set to close by the end of this year.

2. The production of wide-format graphics is expected to nearly double in North America over the next four years, according to the International Sign Association (ISA), but understanding the significant, new opportunities that arise will be complex.

3. The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) in Ottawa has inaugurated a new permanent space for the Canadian Photography Institute (CPI), with dedicated galleries featuring digitally printed large-format graphics.

4. International out-of-home (OOH) advertising firm JCDecaux recently honoured digital billboard and scoreboard manufacturer Daktronics as 2015’s quality supplier of the year for providing high-quality light-emitting diode (LED) video displays.

5. For the 10^th annual edition of Toronto’s Luminato festival of art and creativity, Beyond Digital Imaging (BDI) in Markham, Ont., printed and installed poster-size versions of photographer Scott McFarland’s series Trove: A View of Toronto in 50 of Its Treasures.