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Does My Business Need Illuminated Signage?
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Does My Business Need Illuminated Signage?

Illuminated signage is a great way to make your sign stand out at night. Here are a few reasons why you should install illuminated signage.
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Telltale Signs it’s Time to Upgrade Your Business Signage
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Telltale Signs it’s Time to Upgrade Your Business Signage

Weather damage, illegibility, lack of energy efficiency, and more. Here are 25 reasons it may be time to upgrade your business signage.
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Designing Innovative Signage for The Center at Innovation Drive
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Designing Innovative Signage for The Center at Innovation Drive

Early in 2015, Metro Sign & Awning began designing a freestanding (pylon) sign for a corporate environment that would re-imagine Tewksbury's workspaces. The...
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Designing Outdoor Business Signs
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Designing Outdoor Business Signs

Here are some great tips to consider when designing your outdoor business signs.
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Industry Insights: Talent Search
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Industry Insights: Talent Search

Insights into the sign industry: How to find and keep great talent.
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New mural of waxwings a gateway to Beaver Hills House Park
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New mural of waxwings a gateway to Beaver Hills House Park

Beautiful new mural at the Beaver Hills House Park in Edmonton.
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Free to All’: See inside the $78 million renovation of Boston Public Library in Copley Square (photos)
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Free to All’: See inside the $78 million renovation of Boston Public Library in Copley Square (photos)

Metro Sign & Awning is proud to have assisted in this magnificent transformation.
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Finding Your Way Back to School: Wayfinding Projects Enhance Campus Experience
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Finding Your Way Back to School: Wayfinding Projects Enhance Campus Experience

Effective wayfinding signage goes beyond branding, and it provides far more than directional signage. Think about signage on college campuses....
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Channel Letters: Addressing difficult client expectations
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Channel Letters: Addressing difficult client expectations

An inside look at how to handle difficult customer expectations in the sign industry
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Back to School with Vinyl Graphics and Interior Wayfinding Signage
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Back to School with Vinyl Graphics and Interior Wayfinding Signage

Interior directional signage (also called interior wayfinding signage) is incredibly helpful to building users on a day-in and day-out basis....
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DAKU’s typographic sundial in india generates ever-changing graffiti
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DAKU’s typographic sundial in india generates ever-changing graffiti

This typographic sundial uses shadows from the sun to display "ever-changing" graffiti on the side of the building. Check out the video to see it in action!
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Metro Sign and Awning Receives Two 2016 Watchfire LED Sign Awards
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Metro Sign and Awning Receives Two 2016 Watchfire LED Sign Awards

Metro Sign and Awning Receives Two 2016 Watchfire LED Sign Awards Watchfire Signs has announced the winners of the 2016...
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Recent Work – The Center at Innovation Drive
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Recent Work – The Center at Innovation Drive

Watch as Metro Sign and Awning installers put up new signage at The Center at Innovation Drive in Tewksbury. This...
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Fan Pier building opens with dancers in the sky
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Fan Pier building opens with dancers in the sky

Vertical dancers helped to open the Fan Pier building on Northern Ave the other week. You can watch the video on the Boston Business Journal website.
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Effectively Using Floor Graphics
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Effectively Using Floor Graphics

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” — M. C. Escher. When we think of floor graphics, we tend to think of digitally printed adhesive vinyl with a tough laminate stuck to a floor. You are likely very familiar with these applications in various retail settings, and may even have even used some of the great vinyl products available that are specifically designed for this purpose. But there are many more aspects to floor graphics than traditional media and application surfaces.
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Recent Work – Shipping Container Kiosks at Drydock Ave
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Recent Work – Shipping Container Kiosks at Drydock Ave

This video highlights some of our work creating blade signs and window graphics for the shipping container kiosks on Drydock...
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Give Boston Better Zoning – Just Not Yet?
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Give Boston Better Zoning – Just Not Yet?

There's often a fine line between encouraging development and strictly following zoning requirements. It can also often be difficult for cities to maintain and update these laws to keep up with the times.
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Digital Signage Increases Revenue: Then and Now
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Digital Signage Increases Revenue: Then and Now

Many individual business owners, chain accounts, schools and developers (shopping centers) have recognized the advantage of content displayed through digital...
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Recent Work – Butler Home Products
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Recent Work – Butler Home Products

This video shows some photos from a recent vinyl installation we did for Butler Home Products - a great example...
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Will Architecture’s Future be Held Together with Glue?
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Will Architecture’s Future be Held Together with Glue?

Staying current in the design/build industry means understanding constantly changing materials and techniques. Metro's designers, fabricators and installers go through regular training on new materials and sign manufacturing methods in order to offer our clients the best options for each sign, based on its location, signage regulations, and of course, the client's budget.
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