How the internet has impacted the sign industry
Over the last 20 years and certainly during the internet boom of the 90’s, the sign industry has grown and changed with technology. One of my favorite tools that I like to use with designing signs is the internet. I use web images to incorporate with my sign designs, look for corporate logos that customers don’t have and use cleaner images the internet may have that a customer does not. Some of the tools that I used to use like scanners or clipart disk are still helpful but getting used less and starting to collect dust from inactivity.
The internet not only helps with the quality of the sign design but the speed of the design. Before I would have to scan an image, import it into Photoshop to clean it up then import it back to design or look for a book of clipart with 2,000 pages of images that would sometimes not have what I was looking for. On the internet, I just type what I’m looking for and within seconds, I’ll have the image I was looking for. The internet has really made my job a lot easier and has helped me create quality signs for our satisfied customers.
Roland Zavila, Graphic Designer