Color contrasts help you control the message
“Opposites attract,” says the old, oft-repeated saying. This doesn’t only apply to marriages, friendships and magnets. It applies to sign design, too. Opposites… Read More
Author Archives: Bob Behounek
Lettering and striping are essential to a restoration project
Long before I began my apprenticeship in the sign industry, visual communications were seen all over town. I’m sure most were hand-painted. They… Read More
My pinstriping roots
The magic year was 1969, a time filled with anticipation as I began my apprenticeship in the sign industry. Outside of pizza, hot… Read More
Tips from 55 years of sign painting
Back when every sign was hand painted every day, sign painters were expected to do a job right the first time, as efficiently… Read More
Design Clinic: A-frame sign
Sign, sign—everywhere a sign, as the song goes! On any daily journey, you are sure to be exposed to loads of sign-related messages… Read More
Design Clinic: Fascia sign for a machine shop
How often do we see signage around town that falls short and doesn’t quite fit the bill? Unlike other less visible trades our… Read More
Lettering and striping for the fun of it
It’s rather funny how life goes. Many years ago, I set out to embark on a career in railroading. I could see myself… Read More
Design Clinic: Fascia sign makeover
When someone who is a consultant by profession comes in for a sign, I’m always concerned if they will be on the alert… Read More
A blast from the past!
It’s been almost 30 years since I gathered photos of trucks I had done and with the help of SignCraft, put them together… Read More
Design Clinic: New design for a truck fleet
Long-established companies are some of the more difficult clients to get to make changes in their outward appearance. You’ve heard the adage, “If… Read More
Design Clinic: Revamping the pet salon sign
Getting a call to step in and “spruce up a fading sign” can be a daunting task to say the least. How many… Read More
Design Clinic: Take a break and have some fun
Ever since I was in grade school, my interests seemed to center around color and design. I am a visual type of person,… Read More
Design Clinic: Restaurant window signs
Much of my work in recent years centered around fascias and vehicle graphics, but it wasn’t always that way. In my early days,… Read More
Design Clinic: 4-by-12-ft. fascia sign for a salon
When the phone rings with prospective work, most of us are interested to help in any way possible. That’s the nature of the… Read More
Race car graphics at 1/25th scale
Way back before video games totally engulfed the younger generation, an innocent world existed where kids made things by hand to play with… Read More
Design Clinic: Sandblasted entry sign makeover
There was a time when it seemed that everyone wanted a sandblasted redwood or cedar sign. They are warm, strong, and the sandblasted… Read More
Design Clinic: A few recent projects
Once upon a time, when hand-crafted things were the rule and not the exception, craftspeople seemed to understand what it was going to… Read More
Design Clinic: 4×8 for an art gallery
The best laid plans sometimes do not work out well when art and artists are involved. One group specializes in one type of… Read More
Design Clinic: Banner makeover
How many banners do we see strung up between two posts these days? They seem to be everywhere. Crumpled, leaning to one side… Read More
Design Clinic: Cargo van
Cargo van graphics always seem to catch my eye. They give you a big canvas to work with, and plenty of room to… Read More
