New Year, New Us?

Happy New Year everyone! We are excited for the new adventures we will have in 2017. All of our clients, old and new, can expect the same great service and quality they are use to. We haven't changed what makes us great. So... you're wondering, what is new? Well, we are adding products to our standard line and updating our showroom too. We have also updated our pricing structure to help keep us moving in a positive direction with you. Updates are posted throughout the website in all of our printer friendly .pdf links. 

Have a happy and safe holiday!
Best Wishes,
Skyline Designs

Winter Weather is Here

Today most of us in the area are seeing our first good snowfall of the year. Other cities and states have already seen an inch or two this year. Everyone wants to stay safe on the roads and we will experience delays in shipping due to poor driving conditions. This will affect your orders, so PLEASE think ahead and give us as much time as possible to work with you and your deadlines. Thank you from all the staff at Skyline Designs

Happy Thanksgiving

In just two days we will be off for Thanksgiving. It seems like this year has flown by. We want to take a moment to say thank you to all of our great customers. We've been busier than ever, and its all because of your loyalty and your recommendations to friends and family. We've also never had as many people walk in 'just to check things out' than this year. We hope that you enjoy Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family, like we plan to do ourselves.

More than t-shirts

Did you know we make compact mirrors and wine boxes with custom images on them? Well, we do! And we can provide trophies, plaques, frisbees, umbrellas, yoga mats, shot glasses, rubber bracelets and probably anything else you can think of with your images and logos on it. We offer a wide product line to make it easier for our customers to get what they need. 

Magnets for Your Car...and Your Home!

One of the many advertising materials we get a call for occasionally are magnets. We can print out a graphic on vinyl to put on magnets that can be given away or used to advertise your business on filing cabinets, refrigerators, and other magnetic surfaces. The magnets we gave away at the Family FunFest were made from a thicker, more durable magnet that we generally use for car magnets, another significant surface perfect for advertising a business. However, we have a variety of different thicknesses of magnet material we can use. We also use solvent inks on the material, so you shouldn't have to worry about the graphic streaking or fading due to harsh weather. If you need some magnets done, don't hesistate to contact us; we'd love to make some for you!

Family FunFest is Coming!

We are very excited to be appearing at the Family FunFest this weekend! This first annual event is being hosted by Kid Stuff magazine and will take place at Whaleback Mountain, which is also sponsoring the event. There will be food, family activities, crafts, take-home projects, and all sorts of other festivities happening. Our personal booth will feature a coloring contest, a free raffle for fall apparel, and we'll be handing out free stuff...you can't get much better than that! We'll also be around to answer any questions you might have about the business or the work we do, so stop on by this Saturday, Sept. 24, from 10 am to 3 pm at Whaleback Mountain in Enfield, NH!

Autumn is (Almost) Here!

Labor Day marked the unofficial end to summer. School is in full swing, and most fall sports have already begun. Temperatures on average are already starting to decrease, and the mornings especially have been bracing and cool. Thankfully, we have you covered for all of these things, and so much more! Need to outfit your local business with some fleeces or sweatshirts featuring the company logo? We can do that! Need to outfit the team with some new jerseys or show your support with custom made apparel? We can do that too! Need to advertise your upcoming fall events, sales, or other public announcements? We can do that as well, providing banners, posters, and indoor and outdoor fixtures to display your signs. We'd love to see or hear from you this autumn, so give us a call (603-843-8965), shoot us an email (info@skylinedesignsgraphics.com), or stop on by and we'd love to meet whatever needs you have!

Need Promo Items? Gotcha Covered!

Joe's Family Car Care recently received some really great-looking carabiners and magnet clips, and I thought now might be a great time to go into promotional items a little bit. Though we would love to be able to handle every job in-house, there are some jobs where we wouldn't be able to offer our customers the best prices. Fortunately, we have a great relationship with one of our vendors where they can offer you some great promotional items for a very reasonable price. They can print your company logo, contact information, and other important details you want promoted on a huge range of items, including pens, reusable bags, flash drives, mugs, lighters, shot glasses, flash drives--practically anything you can think of! We love being able to fulfill whatever promotional need you have, so stop on by or give us a call at 603-843-8965, and we'd love to help you out! You can also check out some featured products on our website; just click on one of the pictures and it will take you to the vendor's site where you can see all the prices up front. Check it out!

http://www.skylinedesignsgraphics.com/Promotional/

More Than Just Information

One of the wonderful things about signs is the variety of uses and information they can convey. To use some examples of recent projects we've worked on, we did a series of signs for Toole Home Improvements and a series of signs for Eastman that do entirely different things. The signs we made for Toole are fairly informational: they have the logo with the name of the company, the service provided (General Contractor), the phone number, and the location, all on a coraplast sign. This is simple and great because it offers people exactly what they need to know if they need a general contractor; too much information or lots of pictures would be distracting. Meanwhile, the Eastman signs are displayed on Komatex, don't feature very much text at all, instead focusing on the large pictures. These signs are great for display either inside or outside for an entirely different purpose: communicating visually the activities you can enjoy at Eastman. We can make any of these types of signs, and a whole lot more, so we can make sure whatever message you want to convey gets sent!

The Tricky Business of Hat Embroidery

So this time, I thought it might be fun to do a little behind-the-scenes look at how we embroider hats like the ones we just put out for S Brush. Unlike polos or tees which stitch flat, hats require a special mechanism to attach to our embroidery machine, as the machine is required to stitch on a curved surface. Setting the hats up for stitching (known as "hooping") also requires a different process than for shirts. Instead of cinching a specific area of the hat to be stitched onto, the whole hat must lock into place in the hoop and the back of the hat must be pinned back to avoid too much movement of the fabric as the hat rotates on the machine. This makes embroidering on unstructured hats especially difficult! Fortunately, we're currently looking into a newer hooping system to make this process far more efficient and improve upon one of our many services!

New T-Shirt Line Now Available

This has been in the works for a few weeks now, but we've finally unveiled a new page on our website! We have worked with Lori King for a while and our continued collaborations have resulted in a lot of different designs for her new product line, Herman Tease. All of these tees are now available for viewing on our site. One design pays tribute to those fighting or who have fought cancer, and proceeds of this shirt are donated to the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock. We do stress that some of the other designs feature profanity and other adult content, so just be warned if that type of humor is not something you enjoy. Check it out:

http://www.skylinedesignsgraphics.com/Herman-Tease/

Fall Sports Aren't Too Far Off!

If you've been by the store today, you'll notice that we recently put up a new window sign on the one half of the storefront that didn't have a sign on it yet. If you haven't seen it yet, it highlights one of our many services that the other window graphic didn't quite cover: sportswear! Fall sports are just a month or so away, and we'd love to take care of whatever you're missing for this upcoming season. We can work on jerseys, warm-ups, sweatshirts, and any other gear you need for your team. Need a logo embroidered on a bag? We'd love to do that for you, and we even have multiple bag options for you to choose from. Looking for fan-wear to support your favorite local team? We can do that too! We have lots of different products we can put your team logos and player names on; stop on by and we can show you around.

Slowing Down? Still Busy!

Things have started to calm down a bit in comparison to the past couple of months, which has been more than busy for everyone in the graphics room! We've been printing and designing banners, t-shirts, decals, and embroidering shirts and hats almost non-stop, so it has been tough to find time to work on our showroom and other aesthetic parts of the shop. We have been making some progress on it gradually over time, and it is starting to come together to a point where we think you'll like how it looks, though there is still plenty of work to be done on it!

We're currently in the middle of work on embroidered shirts for the Clan Davidson Society, as well as developing a logo for EMS Landscaping, a new business starting up soon. One of the cool services we have been doing recently is replacing dates on banners we made in previous years. Because the dates are made with removable vinyl, you don't have to go to the trouble of making a whole new banner; just let us fix the dates for you. We have several customers that come back every year to use this service.

Hard at Work

Happy Independence Day! A little late, but we weren't here yesterday, so there was no way to make this greeting on time! Speaking of on time, we've been hard at work ensuring that all our orders make it out on time. Our printer has been printing close to non-stop, and our shirt press has been getting a huge workout as well. We've recently put out banners for The Light Radio Network, t-shirts for Eastman, embroidered hats and shirts for R.E. Hinkley Co., and we're right in the middle of a handful of other jobs. We're also still working on sprucing up our showroom so that we can give you a better idea of what we do when you come through the door.

Don't let that stop you from coming in, though! We'd love to see you and discuss a design job for a t-shirt, embroidery work on a hat or polo, or anything else you need to have done for your business or personal use. There are so many things we can print on; we look forward to showing you when you stop on by!

Busy Start to Summer

Summer has officially begun, and we find ourselves just as busy as ever! One of our most recent jobs we've been working on is embroidering t-shirts and polos for Speedway Safety Service in Claremont. They're going to be working at the upcoming NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, so it's exciting for us to be making something for a local company that will be at such a big event! We're also very busy at work on laminated decals for Tarrago shoe care products, as SoleTech is re-purposing some retail displays with new point of purchase advertising logos.

We also have Rick's new puppy Riley around with us, and she's just as excited as we are to have you stop in and check out what we have on display. There's still some work to be done in terms of organizing and set up in our display room, but stop on in and check out the tees we have on display, or the huge variety of products we can print or embroider on!

PROMO! PROMO! PROMO!

I am really excited about all the things we can offer in our "Promo" section! This week we had a big batch of reusable shopping bags come in for Rusty Nut. Each bag was decorated with their logo, phone number, web address and it didn't break the bank! I would love to handle every job in house, but there's no way we can always offer the best price. With our relationship with this vendor we have access to some of the coolest stuff and the price is unbelievable! We had another customer ask for carabiners and another who is interested in bulk backpacks. It's a great feeling when you can tell every customer 'Yes, we can do that' instead of turning them away. I highly recommend you check out our promotional section. Each photo links you to the site we use and the pricing is right there for you to see up front. This site only has the best deals of the year, but if you don't see what you need we can look it up in the catalogs we have here.

Finally Settling In

Hi everyone! It's been a while since our last post. Once we moved the work flooded in. We have been so busy, but that's a good problem to have. It's been exciting to see all the new faces come in and so rewarding to be able to help. Anyone who's been in to our new location knows that we a small locally run business. There were only two of us in the graphics department until a few weeks ago! I think this has helped us create such great relationships with our customers. What do you think? I want to shout out to a few of our recent customers because working with them has been so great! If you go to our Facebook page you can see pictures of some work we have done for Harbor HandiMan, Out Numbered Grill, Crazy H Farm, and Retrospect band. I'm really excited to show off some of our promotional products that will be coming in soon. I'll try to keep you posted!

Our First Adventures in 2016

Well, moving day came and went and we are still here. There have been a few hitches so it looks like we may be delayed for another week or two. But we will get there!

The new year brought a flurry of new jobs. We are working with two chapters the NH Elks Association, Mid Vermont Christian School, and Harbor Handiman, a brand new business that is starting up. A lot of things can change in the new year, so if your business needs new... anything, really, give us a call. 603.843.8965 We never charge for quotes or consultations. We have taken on several new vendors for clothing recently and can now provide items made in USA, nurses uniforms, chefs coats and a wide variety of children's clothes. We can also get your business great promotional products like drink koozies and key chains  . You'll never know how much we can do for you unless you ask.