A while back I got an email from Signs Canada regarding a Canadian Sign contest. As I recall the contest was open to Canadian sign shops with the caveat that any work entered had to have been done in Canada in the last two years.
I had to scramble a bit for this was the year we did most of our work in the US by coincidence. I recieved the email back when we were fighting the big deadline of our Minnesota job, but one evening I stole a little time and popped a couple of projects into the running via email. I was planning on digging up a few more but in the crazy days of meeting the deadline I just plain forgot all about it.
Last week we got a call from the editor of the magazine. Turns out our work placed first in the unusual category. Nothing too unusual about that. We tend to do well that category in most contests we enter... if they have such a category. Even so I was very pleased!
But the editor went on to tell us we also recieved the most votes of any sign entered and therefore won the best overall category as well. THAT was cool! The prize involved a feature in the magazine... very cool! and an all expense paid trip to Orlando to the SGIA '07 Show... BONUS!.
We bought a second ticket for Janis and the magazine editors kindly allowed us to extend our stay in the Florida as well so we get to go see Mickey too! The trip is in late October.
The sign that won the prize was the Hell's Gate Airtram. We hope to start the second phase in the next couple of weeks.
Digging out the sunscreen lotion in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
well alright dan! and a trip to your favorite place to boot...congrats to you! Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Congrats!! How cool is that!?
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
Yea, yea...whatever.
Congratulations, anyway. You can get some more inspiration from one of your favorite places.
All I ever get from a contest is a plaque or certificate. You Canadians do things up right.
Posted by Paul Bierce (Member # 5412) on :
I'd love to see a jpeg of the work you're talking about Dan. Your work never ceases to amaze.
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
I've never gotten any free trips out of winning awards but they have helped sell jobs many times, often as the high bidder. It does pay to enter the contests.
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
Here's a pic of the completed sign. It was a fun project to do and paid well too!
-grampa dan
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
Ut oh, Grandpa Dan said "hell"....
Nice work sir, as always, packing sunscreen lotion? You can actually buy some there? (Yarrow)
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Cool! Congrats!
Maybe I'll catch at the show this go around. You're a tough guy to catch!!
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Congratulations Dan!!!!! They really are treating you right and well they should! Do ya think you can dig up enough material for an feature article? Way to go!!!!
Posted by Deb Fowler (Member # 1039) on :
If you can build a sugar castle out of sugar cubes, anything's possible with you. I'd love to see your shop sometime! Have fun in Disney World; oh, btw, you should cop a job from them too!
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
Congratulations, Dan...your trip to Florida... is via Australia in late October, isn't it? Posted by Deri Russell (Member # 119) on :
Yeeeeaaaahhhhhh Dan!!!! Congratulations!
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
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