{"id":229,"date":"2019-10-11T02:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisharden.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2019-10-11T02:33:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T02:33:40","slug":"entrepreneurial-fun-making-a-vinyl-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisharden.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/11\/entrepreneurial-fun-making-a-vinyl-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurial Fun: Making a Vinyl Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been having some Entrepreneurial fun establishing a brand with my wife for her new Psychiatry practice, Harden Health<\/a>. She’s been toying with the idea of opening her own practice for a while now, and as of mid May, she officially launched her business. I love branding and used my graphic design skills to create her logo and brand collateral (business cards, letterhead, etc…), and this weekend we hung the sign in her lobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vinyl sign making can be lots of fun, if you have the right tools, like the R-Series<\/a> vinyl plotter I got for doing office decor at my company<\/a> last year. You also need some graphic design experience with a vector program like Adobe Illustrator<\/a>. If you don’t have that stuff, you can order great signs at a decent price in most local cities. But in case you are just curious as to how vinyl signs work, below is a series of photos showing how each color of a vinyl sign gets plotted, “weeded”, and transferred<\/a> to an acrylic sheet using a little bit of soapy water and a squeegee. If you are into DIY, this can be tons of fun. I bought the acrylic sheet online at eStreet Plastics<\/a>, the brushed metal mounting hardware<\/a> on amazon, the vinyl on Swing Design<\/a>, and did the sign on my home PC, dining room table, and garage saw horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I placed a couple teaser images in this image, but frankly, LinkedIn is not friendly with uploading large numbers of images (one. by one. by one. snoooooooze…). The full set is here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christopheralanharden\/media_set?set=a.10161656215715696&type=3&uploaded=22<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you done any vinyl signs yourself? Tell me below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy vinyling!
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