2011 ISA Sign Design Competition Winners

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

For the second consecutive year, International Sign Association held its annual Sign Design Competition online, empowering members to promote their sign design project photos via their social media networks.

Winners were cosen in eight distinct categories.
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Best of the Regions

“Our members’ signs are unique works of art and manufacture, as well as the most important marketing vehicles for businesses,” says Lori Anderson, ISA president and CEO. “The ability to design and expertly engineer signs, with all of their complexity and dimension, takes a very particular skill set that is specific to the on-premise sign industry.”

This year’s contest received a 106% increase in the number of votes submitted, with more than 35,000 votes recorded. In addition, ISA displayed 40% more sign designs, with a total of 91 member entries. The contest categories included seven on-premise sign categories, as well as a Best in the Regions design winner, for the highest voted sign.

“We believe the fact that votes increased so dramatically is due to the sign industry’s increased adaptation to social media technologies,” says ISA’s Sarah Singleton, director of marketing. “We saw members promoting their sign designs on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, which resulted in a vast increase of votes.”

The winning sign designers are:

ISA is a 2,000-member trade association. Its members are manufacturers, suppliers, and users of on-premise signs and sign products from the 50 United States and 60 countries around the world.


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