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Printed building site hoardings are becoming a valuable marketing and advertising tool and costs less than you think.

With so many different advertising mediums it’s hard to choose which advertising/marketing method is going to suit you building development. Advertising on construction site hoardings is very cost effective verses other marketing mediums. The main reason is because the advertising space is free! All that has to be paid for is the design and production of the…

The Geoghegan Group have taken advantage of their hoarding whilst they are building a new rehabilitation home in Guildford, Surrey. The road in front of the building site is a main road into Guildford with heavy passing traffic which makes this site ideal for put up an advertising hoarding.

The…

Out of all the building wrap challenges we have undertaken this project was by far the most challenging.

The brief was to install a digitally printed building wrap  and hoarding to an existing scaffolding structure at BMW Park Lane, London, to tidy up the unattractive scaffolding for the Olympics.  The main issue was that the structure had been up for almost 10 years and as scaffolding tubs iare made from steel will have corroded.  The original scaffolding structural engineer has…

This building site hoarding was the highest hoarding we have produced measuring 8.5 meters high with only 1.2 meters space between the main hoarding and the skip hoarding making  the installation a…

Building and construction work is never ending and the need to refurnish properties is very disruptive for the local community. With space at a premium in central London and greater London basements have become very popular however require a huge amount of earth moved and taken away.…

Refurnishing properties is never ending and this building work is very disruptive for the local community. With space at a premium in central London and greater London basements have become very popular, however require a huge amount of earth moved and taken away. Scaffolding structure is…

Visited the exhibitionIn Guanhzhou this year Feb 2012. Bought a printer from Goldensign. They are full of promises. When printer breaks they send you a repair contract where you are responsible to return broken parts and then they will decide if it was your fault or not.When buying this contract will never be shown. In the meantime the printer only lasted 4 months and you must now wait. You must pay all delivery…

There has never been a better time to be working in the digital printing sector than right now. Business is seemingly booming in the sector despite the gloomy outlook from both the weather and the economy in general and things are generally looking up all around.

The reason I am so confident is that this is what I am hearing from both sellers of equipment - dealers and manufacturers - as well as from materials suppliers and print service providers (PSPs). The former are exceeding…

Adams and Collingwood Architects called us in to install a large printed building wrap and builders hoardings onto The Egyptian Cultural Centre and Education Bureau building which was going under…

On 23rd May, Sihl Direct is hosting its first UK press event, with journalists from the large format printing and sign-making community coming to the newly opened offices in Altrincham. Presentations will be given by senior representatives from Sihl Direct in the…

The Tate Britain’s has had a £45m makeover claiming it ‘will make it London’s finest gallery’

Tate Britain has had a multi-million pound refurbishment to ensure it is stays as one of the country’s “finest” galleries. Unfortunately some of the gallery will be closed for the 2012 London Olympics.

So…

General Mills the owners of Haagen-Daze asked Justin Murray to come up with some new ideas for branding their ice cream fridges which are strategically positioned in shops, theatres and cinemas. As these fridges are part of Haagan-Daze Point of Sale (POS) strategy they wanted customers to be more engaging with the fridges yet not to be distracted from the important product inside. They also did not want the…

Important news for all print and exhibit design shops.

Babycad, now allows you to re-brand and embed the easy design application in your own website. Invite customers to use it on your site to play with stand and showroom ideas. Get your customers engaging instantly, and give them the tools to make fast confident decisions.

Try out Babycad booth designer online for free , it uses the award winning (Scottish software awards)…

The Informa Exhibitions Print Group officially launches the next international Ipex exhibition which will take place from 26^th March to 2^nd April 2014 at London’s ExCeL international exhibition and conference centre

http://www.excel-london.co.uk

Visitors to drupa will be the first to witness the new Ipex 2014 branding featuring a distinct compass to highlight and help navigate printers’ journey through the…

Scaffolding structures on building sites are always an eye saw and ruins the view of everyday people which is why producing a digitally printed mesh building wrap or scaffolding banner can help in disguising the scaffold structure. The digitally printed building wrap will enhance the…

Greenpeace set us another challenge at the beginning of the year and asked us to come with a eco friendly  paper based poster 1200mm high x 1800mm…

This year the Sign & Digital show looks set to provide the perfect platform for commercial printers who are looking to broaden their service offering and have been thinking of investing in wide format printing. For those of you who didn’t make it out to the…

"my VersaCAMM has been so valuable since day one. Within 4 hous of the machine being installed, we were producing work that was going out the door... I'd definitely recommend a Roland to anyone."

Jason Goodridge

Freestyle Designs Ltd…

FESPA Digital proved a popular destination for the UK wide format sector with British visitors making up the second largest contingent out of the 12,000 unique visitors to the show, and today a visit to a FESPA show means inkjet, but with an ever increasing variety…