Matt's so called "standing desk" is now live thanks to Mike Heylin from Heylin Consulting Group. Martin Sign Company is all cloud based so we needed a set of computers that could access the internet and Mike Heylin really came through for us. We were able to test out our POS software (also in the [...]
Your sign says a lot about you and how you run your business. Making a good impression with your sign is very important to the success of your business. Think about it. When you are walking down the street looking for a place to eat for lunch are you likely to walk into a place [...]
Real estate signs in San Francisco have to adapt to the building they are going in front of. For you Realtors out there in the San Francisco Bay Area, your listings come in all different shapes and sizes. You have everything from condos to the multi-million dollar mansions, tenants in common to the high rise apartments to [...]
When thinking about your sign for your glass door for example you will be asked by your sign guy what type of digital graphics or vinyl graphics you'd like to have on your door. The sign professional might ask "Do you want digital graphics or cut weed and tape?" Actually I know most [...]
This last Saturday my business partner Matt, his wife Kristin, and I went to the opening at Guerrero Gallery for a show called An American Language which featured various sign hand painters from around the country. Martin Sign Company friend and fellow hand painter Bob Dewhurst was in the show. I thought this show is [...]
Hand painting is a classic way to make signs. It is still popular. It's time consuming and it takes some skill but hand painting is still my favorite way to do signs. For La Boulange, they wanted a sidewalk sign for their California street location. They wanted a classic hand painted look instead of digital [...]
Here are some new progress photos of the Martin Sign Company shop. Matt has his standing desk. (We'll see how long he lasts at a standing desk.) Matt also built some shelves and hung some artwork on the wall. My desk also has some decoration plus the Rackafracka 2012 calendar.
Well the new shop is coming together. I got some old furniture from a friend of mine's wife who works at a law firm that was moving. I brought all my tools and stuff from my home that I thought would be useful to have in a sign shop. The chairs I got are sweet [...]
Welcome new readers to the Martin Sign Company blog. My name is Marty Wall, and I started Martin Sign Company with the intention of being a boutique shop in the San Francisco Bay Area. My goal is use the extensive experience I have as a sign fabricator, illustrator, and as a salesman to give clients [...]
