1. Advertise your Business or Event with a Banner!
Advertising your business, promoting your event or brand can be as easy as ABC with our help and advice. Christmas is approaching, a busy time of year for parties and promotions, so your publicity budget will be stretched. A printed PVC banner is ideal for informing the public about who you are and what you do. They are […]
2. Vehicle Graphics and Sign Writing – 10, 5, 3… One compelling reason
The bottom line is simple, all companies want to attract more paying customers to their business. So, what better way than to use our delivery vans, service vehicles or car fleet to do that job. You might decide on a traditional sign written vehicle displaying your name and contact details or you could make a […]
3. Merry Christmas!
A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! From everyone at J Connor Signs we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy prosperous 2016!
4. End of an era… But moving forward
After more than 30 years in these premises, it is only natural to feel mixed emotions when we are packing everything up to move to our new unit. It has taken a while to sort through all the ‘stuff’ we seem to have accumulated over that time – bits of signage work that we have kept, […]
5. Only 8 Days to the Big Move!
After more than 30 years at 89 Bordesley Green Road, where our Dad, John Connor started the business, we are moving to pastures new! It’s not far – just around the corner from where we are now, to the St Andrews Industrial Estate, Sydney Road. We’re changing our address but our telephone number remains the same […]
6. Signwriting in the news
Traditional Signwriting has been making the news recently with 3 stories on the BBC website in the last month. The stories of “Ghost Signs” made it to the regional news channels – up in the North West http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30734045 – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-30703573 but of more interest to us in Birmingham, Midlands Today http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-30994224 featuring many gently fading signs around the Birmingham area, […]
7. Is there a difference between sign making and sign writing?
We can’t be accurate about the introduction of signs to civilisation, but evidence suggests that they were around in ancient Roman times. Examples have been uncovered in the ruins of Pompeii advertising gladiatorial games and forthcoming elections. Carved inscriptions from this era (known as Roman Square Capitals or Trajan) were created with calligraphic brush strokes by master sign […]
