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

1. Toronto-based Eventscape engineered, fabricated and installed a 7.9 x 7.3-m (26 x 24-ft) storefront façade, including signage, for sunglasses and watch retailer Spareparts at the city’s Yorkdale Shopping Centre.

2. The Canadian Printing Industries Association (CPIA) has appointed new officers to its board of directors in an effort to revitalize the organization’s national voice for Canada’s printing industry.

3. Commercial property manager Land Securities is upgrading Piccadilly Lights, a famous advertising site in London, England, with an outward-curving light-emitting diode (LED) display from Daktronics.

4. Grocery store operator Calgary Co-op recently retained design firm Shikatani Lacroix to develop signage for its ‘store of the future’ concept location in Calgary’s Auburn Bay neighbourhood.

5. Impulse Graphic & Display Solutions in Mississauga, Ont., has installed Esko’s Automation Engine pre-press workflow software to accelerate production by automating ‘step and repeat’ layouts for its wide-format inkjet printers and cutting tables.