The Letter A

I am not one for many words, my websites depend on images instead to drive traffic to my sites. This is an image of a built up stainless steel letter with a brushed finish for use on a Shop Front Sign. The image was taken 2005.

http://www.stainlesssteelletters.co.uk/metal-letter-a.htm   for more images of this letter.

Letter A

The letter ‘a’ made from moulded cast acrylic in a green chrome finish. The letter ‘a’ was part of a job we did for a school located in England. The complete word was ‘Laboratory’.

Chrome Moulded Letters. reflective letters with a mirror finish suitable for signs for Schools.
The letters are made to order.

Antique 3D Letters

A couple of years ago we were asked to produce 3D letters for a customer for use inside a shopping centre where the sign would be under cover. They wanted the letters to look hand-made and 3D. They wanted them to be silver in colour and have a bevel to them.

We produced the letters in a Gothic type Font. The letters were made 12″ high, 1″ thick with standoff locators on the back. Made from a high density Styrofoam which we coated with resin and then hand painted up in red. When the red paint was dry we then painted the silver paint on top. Before the silver was dry we used a clean cloth to rub off some of the silver paint to show bits of red.

Gothic Letters.

This type of 3D lettering would be ideal for those customers who want something different from the Norm.
The letters look hand-made, rustic letters, antique letters, gothic letters. They have a texture to then, they are hand painted and the final finish varies from job to job. The sort of shop that may suite this type of lettering might be A Gothic Clothes Shop, A Florist Shop, An Art and Crafts Shop, A Tattoo Shop, An Antique Shop.
We don’t make these letters very often as most customers want to stay with what they know, most customers prefer to have a sheet of material with stick on letters or perspex letters applied. Most of the signs we make are made from Alupanel or Perspex with an aluminium frame, they look great but some times if you are looking for something that looks hand made and not shinny, resin coated styrofoam letters may be the right choice.

Perspex and Cast Acrylic Colour Charts

Perspex Colour Chart.

The most popular colours are not on the colour chart. Black, White, Gold, Silver.

Plastic Letters

At Arro Signs we make Plastic Letters for signs. Arro Signs Plastic Letters are made from cast acrylic. We buy sheets of cast acrylic from a local supplier and we usually use the PERSPEX brand of cast acrylic. The sheets are supplied to us 10ft by 5ft 5mm thick. Perspex has a wide range of colours to choose from. The Most popular colours are Black, White, Gold, Silver.

We cut the cast acrylic sheeting in to letters, logos and shapes with a CNC router. The letters are usually supplied with a stud and cup fixing system which allows the letters to stand-off the wall when fixed. A paper template is also supplied to indicate where the fixings are located.

Gold Perspex Letters are used with Prestigious Shop Front Signs and give the customer the Exclusive image without costing the earth.
This Link will take you to our website page for perspex letters.

Cast Acrylic is also a great material to work with when producing Built up Letters and Moulded Letters.

This Shop Front Sign had Gold Moulded Letters onto Chrome Faced Panels fixed onto a timber fascia located in Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

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Ebay Shop

You can buy our shop front signs through our ebay shop.

Our Shop Front Signs are made from 3mm thick 3PLY aluminium laminate designed for Shop Front Signs.

The lettering is made from self adhesive vinyl. It is durable and colour fast.

click on the link to view some previous layouts of some of the jobs we have done. Layouts of jobs we have done.

Our website for our Shop Signs is www.shopfrontsign.co.uk

 

Shop Front Signs made from Aluminium Laminate

Shop front signs. This shop front sign was made of an aluminium 3ply laminate. The  alupanel was vinyl coated to the customers specification, artwork was supplied by the customer, we then digitized the logo and cut it in vinyl.
Connexions is a government organisation for young people to help them into training schemes and work. We supplied a number of Shop Front Signs in Southern England.

www.shopfrontsign.co.uk

Shop front Signs – Clear cast Acrylic

Clear Cast Acrylic Shop Front Signs look modern and very professional. Made from 10mm thick clear cast acrylic with polished edges, vinyl letters on the face with satin finish stand off fixings.

This kind of product is suitable for Designer Shops and Exclusive Restaurants.

Bad Marketing

Suicidal Marketing Techniques.

The date was the 28th of October, the time was 9.30am, the year was 2009, the place was an office at Arro Signs. A colleague was drinking her first cup of tea for the day, working their way through the emails, deleting the spam that had managed to get through our anti spam software. There was an unusually high level of emails coming through and our outlook express started to crash. Half an hour later the system was still crashing, we wondered why? One hour later we were still attempting to get through our emails. System reboot again.
System restart, still no luck.

Eventually we were able to recover our emails. A supplier of ours who is also a ‘perfect marketing company’ that will remain nameless had been sending out a marketing email with all their client email addresses in the address bar.

When anyone sent a reply to the email asking to be removed from the list; typing unsubscribe; they were then sending that email to everyone on the list, if the recipient then replied they to sent an email to every one on the list and so on and so on. The emails did not stop coming until late afternoon, by this time I suspect our supplier had just lost a large chunk of their potential customers as well as some of their existing customers.

This is not the first time we have had this problem. Someones head at the marketing department at their office should be on the block for this complete cock-up. Apart from handing out their client list to potential competitors they have lost the trust of their customers in one days marketing campaign.

If you use a marketing program you need to do one basic thing to avoid a massive email campaign disaster, enter your own email address on all email campaigns spread out through the email list. This will give you a steady flow of confirmations that the emails are working and tell you when something is going very wrong.

Never trust a computer program and leave it to do all the work for you, it will go wrong.

Now that I have said all the above I cross my finders and hope that I do not do the same mistake.