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Event Signage Rentals in Phoenix, Arizona

Frequently Asked Questions

Details to help plan your event signage quote

What signage does an event actually need?+
Fewer signs than people plan and in better places. A welcome sign at the entrance, a seating or escort display, one directional sign at every point where a guest has to make a decision, and a sign at the bar if it is not obvious. Everything beyond that is decoration. Every decision point you leave unsigned becomes a question your staff answers two hundred times.
How large does the lettering need to be?+
The working rule is one inch of letter height for every ten feet of reading distance. A sign guests read from thirty feet away needs three inch letters. Escort card names read from two feet and can be small. A directional sign across a ballroom needs to be much bigger than most people design it, which is the most common signage mistake we see.
What is a blade sign?+
A sign that stands out perpendicular from a wall or a post rather than flat against it, so it is readable by someone walking toward it down a corridor rather than only by someone already standing in front of it. It is the right choice for directing traffic in a hallway, a hotel corridor or a conference concourse.
Why use a pedestal instead of an easel?+
A pedestal puts the sign at a considered height and gives it a base that belongs to the design. An easel is a tripod, and it reads as a hotel conference. We stock hexagon pedestals in small, medium and large and square pedestals in medium and large, so the sign can sit at the height the moment needs rather than whatever the easel happens to be.
Can you produce custom signs?+
Yes, we stock a custom sign and custom printed elements. Send artwork as vector with the sizes you want, and send it early, because printing is produced rather than pulled off a shelf. If the sign has to match a brand colour exactly, send the hex or Pantone rather than a colour name.
What are the Oxford and Hudson panels for?+
Surfaces. The Oxford wall panels come in small, medium and large and the Hudson panels in white and black frames, and both give you a freestanding vertical face to mount a seating chart, artwork, a menu or branding on. They also work as a divider, which is why they sit in more than one collection on this site.
Where should signs actually go?+
At decision points and at eye level. The entrance, the fork in a corridor, the top of a staircase, the point where the cocktail hour space meets the dining room. Not on the floor, not below a table edge, and not behind where guests will be standing. Walk the guest route yourself before the event and put a sign wherever you hesitate.
Do the signs work outdoors?+
Pedestals and sandwich boards do, on a level surface, with the same caution as everything else outdoors here: wind. A lightweight sign on a tall pedestal is the first thing to go over when the evening wind comes up, so tell us if signage is going outside and where, and we will plan the placement and the weighting.
What is the sandwich board for?+
An A-frame that stands on its own with no wall and no pedestal, in black. It is the sign you put at a curb, a parking area, a gate or the top of a driveway, where there is nothing to lean against and nowhere to mount anything. Every event with off-site parking needs at least one and most order none.
How far ahead should custom signage be ordered?+
As early as the wording is settled, which is usually later than everything else because seating charts and run of show change until the last week. Stock pedestals, panels and holders can be added late. Anything printed cannot. If you know you will need custom signage, book the holders now and send the artwork when it is final.

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Hedge Walls

Greenery backdrops. Mount a logo or lettering on the face.

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Towers and Columns

Vertical pieces to raise a sign or mark the end of a run.

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Dividers and Stanchions

Panels, fencing and rope stanchions to direct guests where the signs point.

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Branded Games

Machines that carry your artwork, for activations that need more than a sign.

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