Holiday Gift Ideas with Your Digital Photographs

The advent of digital photography has led to the rise of digital art. Checker Signs works with photographers like you to produce interior art. Your images will be printed, mounted and ready to hang.  The gallery wrap photo to canvas print allows for your image to be on the entire area and the photo continues around the canvas edge. Personalized wall décor for home or work. A great gift idea for the person who has everything! The holiday season is around the corner, consider a gallery wrap photo as a great gift giving idea. Photo Printing gift certificates are also available.

To place your order, inquire about frame sizes and shipping charges, contact  204-822-6375 or design[at]checkersigns[dot]com

3M™ Paint Protection Film


3M™ Scotchgard™ Paint Protection Film Pro Series helps preserve your vehicle’s finish and value. The clear polyurethane film is designed to protect automotive paint and an alternative to bug shields or vehicle bras.  Checker Signs will precisely pre-cut the protection film to fit the contours of your car to protect your vehicle from bugs, dirt, scratches, nicks, road salt, sand and road debris and more.

Branding and Marketing with Lettering and Graphics

lettering and graphicsBrightly coloured and well designed lettering and graphics will make your company stand out from all others on the road.  Make a great first impression with powerful branding and marketing with your sales, service and delivery vehicle or trailer.Travel into the view of potential customers instead of waiting for them to see your print, online or radio ad.  As a business, you can non-intrusively reach out to customers over all the roads with your vehicle and trailer travels.Whether it’s a full fleet of vehicles, or a single car, truck or trailer, we are ready to meet your needs. Checker Signs has the ability to create custom designs or use the image that has been created by the customers marketing professional.Checkers Signs takes pride in offering all in-house design, production and installation services.  The advantage to producing everything in-house is to provide our customers with maximum cost efficiency with quality products and the ability to work directly with our customers.

ON2 Solutions – Customer Profile

Prior to opening our business, we approached Checker Signs to assist with signage for the building front, parking lot, service vehicles and office décor. Temporary signage was also required until we were able to decide on permanent designs. The customer service, production and installation staff have contributed to our new business.  Their recommendations, patience, and flexibility with us while developing our corporate image has been priceless.

Checker Signs was integral to our business operations when we started building our product line.  They are able to produce decals within a short turn around time for various ON2 Solutions products.   We use Checker Signs exclusively for all signage and decals for our entire product line. Checker Signs has provided us with top quality signage, exceptional service, and fair pricing since day one! They embody the concept of community businesses working together to achieve lateral success.

ON2 Product Solutions

City of Morden Sign Feature

This spring, Checker Signs installed the architectural letters to complete the City of Morden’s East Entrance Feature.  The 1/2 inch thick black aluminum letters were set in the concrete sign beam.

 

In addition, the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (CFDC) staff worked with  Block Stoneworks to complete the project with the sandblasting of the CFDC image into the concrete beam.

 

Although the feature is certainly a new take on entrance features, former cedar entrance sign that was designed, constructed and installed by Checker Signs in the 1980’s.

 

Our NEW Location

Block Stoneworks and Checker Signs are pleased to announce the relocation within Morden after six months of renovations. Thank you to many local trades, Checker Signs staff, family, and friends for all the time and energy as we worked together to transition to this location that offers the following amenities:

Parking

Building accessibility

Showroom

Product pick-up area

Customer Service workspace

Vehicle Lettering & Wraps

Whether you have a single vehicle or manage a fleet, you can create a bumper-to-bumper marketing machine with our fast and easy custom vehicle lettering and graphics solutions!

Digitally printed custom car graphics can include photographs, full color logos, and vehicle wraps. We produce car graphic decals that can easily adhere to your car, van, or truck doors, and identify your business to your customers and potential future customers.

Check out our vehicle lettering and wrap gallery for more examples as the possibilities are endless! So bring us your idea and we will create a mobile billboard within your budget.  Another option is to have your marketing team create the artwork and Checker Signs staff will do the rest.

Photos to Acrylic Mounting

Checker Signs wants to work with photographers like you to produce your acrylic mounted image. This crisp look with contemporary appeal is typically seen in high-end galleries and museums, and is now available for your home, office, or as a unique gift.

Your digital image will be printed on a photo paper that is face mounted to 6 mm thick high gloss finish acrylic, that results in a completely flat mount of the image that is also protected against ultraviolet (UV) light.

The light penetration and refraction of clear acrylic will produce a sharp image with brilliant colours that pop, and looks dazzling compared to a standard glass picture frame. Your image will be printed, mounted, and ready to hang.

 

The “Relax” Bench

The “relax” bench design took a year to create. The inspiration came while on vacation –  noticing many benches in parks and walkways. After sitting in many benches it was discovered that design and comfort did not always match.

The sketchbook came out and the intent was to create a bench with ultimate comfort and the look of interior furniture.  The first drawings were focussed on having arm rests on both ends to look like a couch. Then the reality of function, aesthetics, manufacturing ability, and cost changed the focus.

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The Julius & Henry – The Laminator

Following in both my grandfathers’ footsteps, I use my mechanical aptitude and design capabilities to create solutions for complicated problems.

My maternal grandfather Henry was a skilled machinist whose job required accuracy and finesse, using calipers that measured to 1/1000 of an inch.  His father was also an inventor and fixer of all sorts of implements and devices that were used to support the farm economy.  The family run machine shop stayed small as Henry did not go for flare, and did not want to expand into a big business. I too struggle with the ambitious entrepreneurial spirit compared to supporting a small business.

As a young man, my paternal grandfather, Julius had some woodwork training under a master craftsman.  When he arrived in Canada, he began to assemble a woodwork shop, with power supplied by a large gas engine.  Julius was a kind of intuitive engineer, and built a number of his tools himself: table saws, lathes, and drill presses.  To make the parts, he fashioned a model out of wood, then took it to the foundry to make castings.  Sometimes he took these to my other grandfather, Henry, for machining.  He built ladders, spinning wheels, coffins, furniture, truck-boxes, etc. Doodling and designing were his after-hours past-time.

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