5 things to know
Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:
1. Toronto-based Holman, known for creating exhibits for museums and trade shows, recently built and installed a replica of the set of The Sports Network’s (TSN’s) daily SportsCentre news show for the Hockey Hall of Fame.
2. Out-of-home (OOH) firm Lamar Advertising has renewed its transit ad contract with BC Transit—a Victoria-based agency that co-ordinates British Columbia’s bus services outside Greater Vancouver—for an additional 10-year term, which began on August 1.
3. A recent Outfront Media digital out-of-home (DOOH) campaign at Toronto’s Yonge-Eglinton Centre (YEC) helped publicize Max’s Big Ride, an effort to raise awareness of and funds for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) research.
4. Multigraphics of Burnaby, B.C., has become the first graphics company in the province to install an Agfa Graphics Jeti Titan HS ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) flatbed printer, which is manufactured in Mississauga, Ont.
5. Street artist Kabir Mokamel and his group, the Art Lords, are painting wall murals along Kabul’s streets to highlight Afghanistan’s social problems.
