{"id":7559,"date":"2012-11-14T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/?p=7559"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T21:42:50","slug":"signage-foundation-co-founder-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Signage Foundation co-founder retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7560\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7560\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7560 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/stevekieffer-300x399.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Kieffer\" width=\"300\" height=\"399\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7560\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Photo courtesy Signage Foundation<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steve Kieffer, who co-founded the Signage Foundation in 2001, announced his retirement from the board of the not-for-profit industry education and research organization at the end of October.<\/p>\n<p>Kieffer (pictured) had already retired from active sign work in 2008, when he sold his company, Kieffer &amp; Co., and won the International Sign Association\u2019s (ISA\u2019s) Kirk L. 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He played a major role the 2012 National Signage Research &amp; Education Conference (NSREC), presenting a glossary of signage terms and charting the classification of sign types.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve led the effort to form the foundation, having an unquenchable drive to further develop the knowledge base of the on-premise sign industry,\u201d says Joe Rickman, one of the other co-founders. \u201cAs the foundation\u2019s first president, he was instrumental in overcoming challenges while developing numerous educational research projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kieffer also chaired the ISA board in 2002, where he helped build its government relations committee, shaped public policy at several levels, authored model sign regulations and participated in technical panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Kieffer, who co-founded the Signage Foundation in 2001, announced his retirement from the board of the not-for-profit industry education and research organization at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,52,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-hires","category-people","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Signage Foundation co-founder retires - Sign Media Canada<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Signage Foundation co-founder retires - Sign Media Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Steve Kieffer, who co-founded the Signage Foundation in 2001, announced his retirement from the board of the not-for-profit industry education and research organization at the end of October.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.signmedia.ca\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sign Media Canada\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-14T21:42:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"all\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"all\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.signmedia.ca\\\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.signmedia.ca\\\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"all\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.signmedia.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0eaf6c32fa84e6d6fba2a612b174fb0f\"},\"headline\":\"Signage Foundation co-founder retires\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-14T21:42:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.signmedia.ca\\\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.signmedia.ca\\\/signage-foundation-co-founder-retires\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Hires\",\"People &amp; 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