5 things to know
Here’s your quick morning update on news in the sign industry:
1. Twilight Signs of Bolton, Ont., and Optec Displays of Saint-Hubert, Que., retrofitted a pylon sign for Canada’s Wonderland, the country’s largest theme park, to better engage motorists driving along Highway 400 through Vaughan, Ont.
2. The digital signage division of OOH advertising firm Pattison Outdoor recently partnered with Zappit to launch a service that delivers OOH campaigns to consumers’ smartphones, starting in Toronto’s Path pedestrian walkways.
3. Canon printed a large-scale photo file by artist Wim Tellier for installation at a beach in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, depicting a crab atop a background of fish-eye landscape shot from around the world.
4. Pattison Outdoor has also partnered with Crime Stoppers, the Vancouver Police and the RCMP to help promote a ‘cash for guns’ campaign to get illegal firearms off Metro Vancouver streets.
5. The world’s best Roland digital printer service engineers have travelled to the manufacturer’s global headquarters in Hamamatsu, Japan, this week to compete for the top title as champion.
