Custom Community Signs in Tampa, FL
Monument sign for Timber Trace community
Giving your community a new face with revamped signage
We would like to share some insights on a project we did for one of our customers in Tampa, FL, rebranding their entire community from creating a new logo and color identity, then redoing all their signage.
Our work involved assessing Timber Trace Apartments‘ needs for a renewed identity, offering consulting services and project management to help create and implement their new branding.
Beyond the main larger signs, we created new routed (cut to shape) plaques for different areas, such as office spaces, specially-designated rooms (laundry, maintenance etc), building numbers, building directional plaques, gate signs, door numbers etc.
Now finding any building or area in this community is easy: you can spot them by our signs displayed along the roadside and in front of the respective buildings.
Routed sign for rear community entrance
Attractive and alluring signs give the community a refreshed look. Residents grow a stronger sense of community and are more prone to refer friend and/or renew their lease.
Community signage for designated laundry room.
Timelines
It is important to remember that understanding the correct timelines are key on this type of implementation. Creating the best logo design for your community can take time, including many revision and approval cycles. Once the logo is defined the best colors for the signage must be determined. Colors must be in-line with the building color schema.
Custom awning graphics for communities
We will then walk through the community and make an assessment and recommendations for all the signage we see necessary.
Once we are all in agreement, deciding on a design for the community plaques, smaller signage, and more importantly, the monument for the main entrance can be complex, as each location is under a unique jurisdiction and rules and regulation for placement, size, type etc will vary.
Community signage for maintenance rooms
Once we sign-off on the design, we start multiple processes in parallel. Critical path is the permitting process and application, then manufacturing the monument, as we are looking at multiple weeks for city approval. We will not start production on the monument until permit is fully approved, so we add 3-4 more weeks for the monument itself.
While this is being done, we will work on creating all files, printing and laminating, then adding them over the right materials. Once the sheets are ready, we cut them to shape in our CNC router and add finishing.
Custom door numbers
Installation
This is another process that normally requires a lot of focus, potentially being lengthy. Most likely we will have over one hundred plaques to install, and to do it correctly, we need to remove the existing signage, paint/cover the original damage, then measure, level, drill, and install – most of them on a ladder or man-lift.
Brushed aluminum office sign
Yes, we agree: it does sound like a lot of work… but this is what do best: guide you through the process so you do not have to worry about it – just enjoy the end result!
Please fee free to contact us at Signs Insight for a free consultation: 813-523-3128
