Here’s a slightly different look at the outdoor mesh banners we produce. A few weeks ago we showed you some large outdoor mesh banners for StreetSense DC. This time around, you get to see the manufacturing process and the final result. This is one of a few big outdoor mesh banners for Coors Light that we have produced and installed for National Harbor. What looks so large inside our facility looks, well, pretty average when hung on the outside of a building. Still, it’s interesting to see the banner in both places, don’t you think?

Here’s another example of a product we are seeing a lot of recently: fabric step and repeat banners. Step and repeat banners are also known as back walls, popups or just about any other name. They can be made out of fabric, vinyl, or even plain paper. The term step and repeat banner comes from the old desktop publishing days. A company logo would often be repeated many times over to make sure that it shows up in any photographs taken in front of it. You will see such step and repeat banners at press conferences, public events, and also many sporting events. These days, not every one actually has a step and repeat image, but the name has stuck and is still a popular way of referring to them.

Here are some links to recent events that featured a fabric step and repeat banner made by CSI. Below that are some photos of some of our more recent step and repeat banners. We can turn a step-and-repeat project around in as little as one day, but normal turnaround would be 3-5 days. Please let us know if you have any questions about these and we’d be glad to help!

Washingtonian Magazine – AT&T Best Of Washington Happy Hour

Maria Menounos at Bethesda Row’s Annual ‘Front Row’ Fashion Event

UPDATE: We’ve added more to the gallery of step and repeats below. Clients include the Washington Nationals, The Center For American Progress, and more. Have a look!

This is the first in a series of posts about a few of the latest projects leaving our production facility. Today we are talking about outdoor fabric flags.

These outdoor fabric flags are produced on our 10′ dye-sub fabric printer and then sewn in a variety of shapes and sizes. We produced 2 of these outdoor flags for DelMarVA Board Sport Adventures. The photo below shows a 2-sided teardrop shape that is roughly 9′ tall, but you can use the same pole for a feather shape as well. We can produce these outdoor fabric flags either single- or double-sided. We also have a variety of mounting options including a ground stand, ground spike, ground screw, and more.

CSI’s Outdoor fabric flags are designed to last anywhere from 6 months onward before fading begins. This will depend on weather conditions, temperatures, sun exposure, and thievery! For more information, please contact us!

Here is a really amazing example of custom wallpaper we printed and installed for America Eats Tavern, located in the Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner. Whenever we are approached to produce graphics for walls, we always discuss several options with our clients. In some cases, adhesive vinyl is the best option. Vinyl is normally laminated, allowing for the surface to be easily cleaned and protected against damage. This is great in high-traffic areas. However, there are often challenges with vinyl: the quality of the wall, as well as the appearance and necessity of overlaps.

Another solution is printed wall-covering. Printed wall-covering is essentially custom wallpaper that is installed with conventional paste. The upside of traditional wall-covering is it is normally installed with no overlap. The downside is that laminate is rarely used due to the texture of the surface. In the end, a proper evaluation of your end-use, your location, and many other job-specific requirements go into the final decision.

For this particular job, we decided on wall-covering. In a restaurant setting, the goal is to have long-lasting, professional-looking custom graphics. Since most of the murals are out of the high traffic areas, a laminate was not required. We produced and installed 3 custom wallpaper murals: one on the ceiling and two on the wall for America Eats Tavern. The end result are beautiful examples of what is possible when fantastic creative combines with the perfect substrate.

Here is a link to the write-up of the restaurant on washingtonian.com. Everything looks tasty and all of the decor matches the overall theme. Fantastic work!

If you are interested in custom wallpaper, wall-covering, adhesive vinyl wall murals or just about any other type of graphic, please give us a call or email us. We’d be glad to assist you and answer any questions you may have.

Whenever you see a mesh banner on the side of a building, you probably think to yourself “that doesn’t look so big.” But when you see the same mesh building banner inside, THAT seems to be different. For some reason, seeing these indoors makes them look bigger. It’s like looking at a television in the store and then having it be that much bigger once you get it home and installed in your room. We are producing two 30′ x 50′ mesh building banners for Streetsense DC to promote Downtown Crown, a new development in Gaithersburg, MD. Check out the photos to see how huge these things are. And to think, these are some of the smaller building banners we’ve done. But they certainly don’t feel that way when we’re working on them!

This week we’re all about bus wraps and more bus wraps! Check out the latest we worked on for Fairfax Connector. Believe it or not, this is only the SMALL bus. There was also a larger bus that was wrapped right after this one. If you attended Celebrate Fairfax this past weekend, you may have seen these awesome CSI bus wraps on display. For more information and some additional photos, check out the Fairfax Connector Facebook Page.

Bus wraps present a greater challenge due to the larger surface area that needs to be covered, as well as the amount of glass involved. In most car wraps, the windows are left alone. Not true for a bus wrap. To complete the project, we use a combination of one-way perforated vinyl (for the windows) and premium 3M cast vinyl for the rest of the bus. The end result, though, is a uniform-looking finished product. Need help with a vehicle wrap, big or small? Let us help you out!