A comprehensive knowledge of sign design enhances a designers ability to foresee the technical issues with a brand, logo, or trademark design.

Design Firms

There is nothing design firms cannot create. That is what they excel in, creativity. Even more than that is trying to explain that design is not sign design. The two are entirely different. There is a pervasive myth that designing signs is easy. On the contrary, it is not easy. But sign design can be learned if properly taught.

A majority of designs submitted from outside the sign industry are not made (into signs) based on their original concept. Three dimensional, real world fabrication must be designed with the knowledge and understanding of material and fabrication. Without this understanding, design concepts are usually turned down by sign companies because, "We cannot make this." To miss this simple premise of designing signage is counterproductive even from a design standpoint.

Where does one begin to understand the importance of sign design?

Chatterbox Designs, Inc. (CDI) is a sign design training and sign consulting company with an extensive array of designing signs for businesses and designing brands for business. We bring an interesting angle never before taught in sign design and how it relates to design in all its form.

We believe understanding sign design will enhance a design firms ability to “see design from a perspective not seen before.” We bring several important components to the understanding of sign design and how it relates to the overall design industry.

We assist design firms with:

  • Creating a foundation, a no-nonsense format for your art department
  • Enhance the designers outlook on sign design to enhance productivity
  • Teach all the tricks of the trade to speed the design process
  • Reveal all the standard sign design formats for every standard sign made
  • A bottomline solution for design-to-sign design

Data:

  • Graphic design experience: 30 years
  • Sign design experience: 10 years
  • Business-focused simultaneously with design-in-mind
  • Translating technical information to a simple format
  • No other company teaches electrical sign design and sign design
  • Located in Southern California, USA-based