Last week I received a book in the mail.  The book is called "Signspotting".  As you may well know, I am a sign geek.  My wife, Jessica, says that I am taking it to extremes, but I think I am just starting.  Anyway, this book is incredible if you like signs.  I showed it to the student ministry team today and ...

One way to judge a restaurant is by going in the bathroom.  I actually had an idea of a restaurant that was all about the bathroom.  You know the barstools would like like but not function as toilets and the booths would be divided by shower curtins.  Of course that is not the point of this post.  The point is to bring you a ...

We have an Apple Store in the Kenwood Mall here in Cincinnati.  It is an incredible store.  I think that if I don't work for Google then Apple would be a nice second.  Yesterday I was walking by the store window and saw this:   Now don't get me wrong.  This display has been up for a while.  And yes that is ...

        I know what you are thinking.  That is not a sign and this is Sign Wednesday.   If you thought this then you are correct.  This is not a sign but it is the secret weapon to sign making.  This is called a plotter or a large format printer.  Now that the introduction has been ...

For those of you who follow this blog I am not changing Sign Wednesday to Thursday but I have been swamped.  I will go back to Wednesday and I promise to write about the importance of the large format printer very soon.  Let's get on with the show, and discuss one sign that is in most churches older than 15 years.  It is the ...

I am a fan of good neon signs.  I like the creativity that neon brings and the attention that it brings.  Of course like all sign types there are bad ones.  Here is a small collection of bad neon.  Enjoy.   Notice that it says "You The Best".  I don't know what that means.   These two just made ...

This is a continued effort to end all outdoor church signs that have phrases that on them that don't make sense.  Here is a prime example:   Now there are many ways in which I could go with this phrase but I won't.  I will go here though.  Instead of putting some cute phrase or stupid one for that matter, please just ...

I am a Wendy's over McDonald's type of person.  I can't say that I like Wendy's new commercials but I do prefer going there for lunch.  Recently, I had lunch there and looked out the window to their sign at the road.  Here is what I saw:   My guess is that they are trying to reach a new younger hipper ...

I love sweet tea.  Yes, this makes me a southern boy and I am perfectly fine with that.  The biggest problem is once you gross the Ohio River it is as if they don't know what you are talking about when you say sweet tea.  Most of the time the response is that there is sugar on the table.  Of course this is no good.  I ...

When you put up a sign then expectations are soon to follow.  Let's say that you put up a simple sign that says that restrooms are down the hall.  One would come to expect the restrooms to be down the hall and not on the opposite side of the store.  Pretty much a no brainer correct?  Well, I am on vacation this week and ...