Profile: Max Clark
By signcraft
Posted on Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
Shop Name: MaxSigns
City: Bend, Oregon
Shop size: 400 sq. ft.
Age: 69
Graphics equipment:
24-in. Graphtech / 15-in. Gerber envision plotter
Gerber Edge printer
Online:
www.maxsignsbend.com
Max Clark is a signpainter/designer/musician with 45 years in the trade. A career that began with hand lettering and screen printing now keeps him busy designing, doing digital prints, cut vinyl and making 3D signage. We talked about his work and his music in a conversation—interspersed with plenty of laughing:
When I first started my business in 1980, I did all the usual commercial sign work including a lot of hand-lettered signs. I lettered a considerable amount of tents for a manufacturing company and also painted huge banners for hot air balloons. I did a large number of these for many years. You never really know what you’re going to get into when in the sign business.