I started in the sign industry in 1994 at Dave Clute Sign Co learning the art of hand painting signs and wall murals for several years. I then spent a year or so at Best Stamp Sign and Seal Co. learning about bronze architectural signage and plaques. Soon after I worked at Safari Land Graphics preparing Police, Fire and EMS Reflective kits and Toyota branded decals for the auto division.MOREFrom 1998-2002 I moved to Ft. Lauderdale where I attended Art Institute and got my degree in Computer Animation, during this time I worked at Creative Signs airbrushing and hand painting sandblasted signs for about a year. I finished my time in Florida working at Girard Signs til I graduated and eventually moving back to KY in 2002. I learned all my skills as a soon-to-be shop owner with Richard and Donna Girard doing everything from designing on Flexi-Sign and running a plotter, to overall shop production. I learned a lot about vinyl signs, fleet lettering, wall graphics, sandblast signs and aluminum sign building. Not long after moving back to KY, I worked at Graffiti Graphics where I met Matt Richart and we ran that shop doing signs, vehicle lettering and graphics. I think around this time I discovered the art of digital printing that the Roland printer could produce and realized there was a market for just vehicle advertising. So I partnered with Matt Richart and Joe Roberts to create Digital EFX Wraps in 2004. We created Digital EFX Wraps with the company goal and focus to do vehicle graphics and wraps. A year or so after being in business we were discovered by Roland thru magazine articles and a contest entry. Shortly after that Roland flew us out to wrap a Scion at Roland headquarters in Irvine, CA. That spawned into doing live wrap demos at shows and soon after creating a wrap program for Roland Born To Wrap.
Digitale FX Wraps
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I started in the sign industry in 1994 at Dave Clute Sign Co learning the art of hand painting signs and wall murals for several years. I then spent a year or so at Best Stamp Sign and Seal Co. learning about bronze architectural signage and plaques. Soon after I worked at Safari Land Graphics preparing Police, Fire and EMS Reflective kits and Toyota branded decals for the auto division.MOREFrom 1998-2002 I moved to Ft. Lauderdale where I attended Art Institute and got my degree in Computer Animation, during this time I worked at Creative Signs airbrushing and hand painting sandblasted signs for about a year. I finished my time in Florida working at Girard Signs til I graduated and eventually moving back to KY in 2002. I learned all my skills as a soon-to-be shop owner with Richard and Donna Girard doing everything from designing on Flexi-Sign and running a plotter, to overall shop production. I learned a lot about vinyl signs, fleet lettering, wall graphics, sandblast signs and aluminum sign building. Not long after moving back to KY, I worked at Graffiti Graphics where I met Matt Richart and we ran that shop doing signs, vehicle lettering and graphics. I think around this time I discovered the art of digital printing that the Roland printer could produce and realized there was a market for just vehicle advertising. So I partnered with Matt Richart and Joe Roberts to create Digital EFX Wraps in 2004. We created Digital EFX Wraps with the company goal and focus to do vehicle graphics and wraps. A year or so after being in business we were discovered by Roland thru magazine articles and a contest entry. Shortly after that Roland flew us out to wrap a Scion at Roland headquarters in Irvine, CA. That spawned into doing live wrap demos at shows and soon after creating a wrap program for Roland Born To Wrap.