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

1. Metrolinx, a provincial agency that integrates transportation in Ontario’s Golden Horseshoe region, has awarded a tender to TG Baker Americas to supply 1.2-m (47-in.) outdoor passenger information displays to train stations across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).

2. Book publisher Penguin Random House Canada recently opened a new retail store in downtown Toronto, the Penguin Shop, featuring bright, colourful signage and décor from local interior design firm Figure3.

3. Maxim Derhak, principal colour scientist for wide-format printing raster image processor (RIP) software developer Onyx Graphics, was recently honoured with a major industry award and a patent for establishing ink use in process channels.

4. Toronto-based branding and design firm Shikatani Lacroix, known for retail and wayfinding projects, recently worked with MetaThink in China to develop interactive digital signage systems for new bank branches across that country.

5. Vision Print, a sign shop in Mississauga, Ont., recently installed a 1.7-m (65-in.) wide Electronics for Imaging (EFI) H1625 light-emitting diode (LED) ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) ‘hybrid’ inkjet printer.