Displays & Signs

Client: Sony Corp. of America
Producer: Design Display Group
Category: Fabricated Plastics: Counter, Shelf or Table Unit
Comments: Laser-cut acrylic hands were utilized to secure the Video Walkman to the display, as well as cover the eject button to prevent consumers from tampering with it. Two sets of holes are located beneath the product to facilitate adjustment for product widths.

Product: Stiles Inc. Ceramic tile
P-O-P companies: FloorPlan In-Store Displays, Dallas (tower); Service Products Inc., Chicago (tile boards)
Distribution: Home centers and floor covering distributors
Introduction: November 1992
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Masonite
The tile towers from Stiles provide maximum display space in minimal floor area. The units have been popular with floor covering stores, which usually don't have a lot of space to spare.

Client: DMB & B Advertising
Producer: Serigraph Inc.
Category: Extruded Plastics: Counter, Shelf or Table Unit
Comments: A copy of the original card had to be 500 percent larger while retaining all the aesthetic characteristics of the original card. Barrier and prime coatings had to be developed for the different hot stamping foils.

Client: Martlett Importing Co.
Producer: P.O.P. Displays Inc.
Category: Thermo-formed Plastics: Sign
Comments: These signs are manufactured from a variety of materials and processes, including vacuum forming, lithography, silkscreening and hot stamping. They have the look of injection molding at the cost of vacuum forming.

Client: Nintendo of America Inc.
Producer: Frank Mayer & Associates Inc.
Category: Interactive, Video or LCD: Floorstand/Kiosk
Comments: Consumer attention is drawn by the colorful TV graphics and illuminated header graphics featuring product transparencies. Up to five individuals may play the game simultaneously due to accessible, yet secure, user controls. Full-screen displays allow the action to be viewed by bystanders. High-fidelity stereo sound amplification makes the display virtually impossible to ignore.

Product: Flight jackets
Number of displays: 500
P-O-P companies: Siquis Ltd., Baltimore (design); Neon Glassworks, Lousiville, Colo. (design and manufacture)
Distribution: Specialty clothing stores
Introduction: March 1993
Duration: Permanent
Construction: Neon tube mounted in fully enclosed, injection-molded package with silkscreened base
Sales of flight jackets are flying high due to a new corporate logo and a neon sign for Alpha Industries.

Client: AFA (Arby's Franchise Association)
Producer: Serigraph Inc.
Category: Multiple Materials: Sign
Comments: This unit withstands the outdoors and allows retailers to change food, drink or price offers. A removable adhesive system withstands the extreme hot and cold temperatures found around the United States. This part had to last a minimum of six months (and in some cases, two years) outdoors.