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.