Channel Letters: What would you charge for this job?

[Doyle]

Hello everyone. I'm wondering if anyone would care to share what they would charge for this job.

Details:
- Logo/artwork provided by customer
- 4" deep returns, mounted to raceway, LED illumination
- Main copy is approx. 11" high, "A+" is approx 36" high
- Capsule is approx. 12" x 100" self contained and mounted flush against building

This is a job that I already have quoted, I'm just curious about what kind of prices this job would fetch from other shops in other areas.

 

[cgsigns_jamie]

$4,051.65 Installed + Permit + Tax

 

[J Hill Designs]

sounds about right depending on interior access

 

[visual800]

$3600 down here

but would be underbidded at cost by larger company

 

[Speedsterbeast]

Am I the only one that sees the irony here?

 

[Doyle]

Thanks for the replies. Where's the irony? I must be missing something

 

[petesign]

About $4300 here. Includes wading through the permit crap. Lots of cities around here have decided they need design committee's and you have to go sit in and answer questions and talk about colors, etc. It's great. Welcome to the U.S.S.A.

 

[Doyle]

I laugh reading some of the ordinances. They don't go so far as to say something is prohibited, but the word "discouraged" shows up on every other line... Here is an actual excerpt from the sign code:

"Bold contrasting vibrant colors shall be discouraged"

Really?

 

[Speedsterbeast]

Thanks for the replies. Where's the irony? I must be missing something

You want help adding numbers to make a sign for a math training center= irony

I guess I was the only one.

 

[visual800]

Man if it ever gets to the point of committees looking at signs I would find another line of work...can you imagine the backlog??!!

Looks good to me put the damn thing up

 

[tiredcreations]

This is a job that I already have quoted, I'm just curious about what kind of prices this job would fetch from other shops in other areas.

So, where'd you come in at?

 

[SignManiac]

Twenty years ago I left New York after living in the Hamptons for twenty five years. They did in fact have an architectural review board which would make a final decision on every sign permit. It may have been a pain in the a$$, but I can say, it did in fact make a huge impact on the look and feel of the community. No trashy signs were allowed. No visual eyesores permitted. It was like a drive thru gallery. Lots of carved gold leaf signs and well painted signs. No internally illuminated signs allowed at all. Not even McDonalds was allowed their back lit arches. It may suck but I wish every community had to follow those guidelines.

Something really needs to be done. It's out of control and I see it everywhere I go. Without some guidelines its a basic free for all of butchered fonts and puke color combinations.

What's really needed is one qualified designer who can review every application who has some modest degree of power to say hay, take this $hit back and design something properly. I know it will never ever happen, but I would not be opposed to seeing something like this one day. A huge percentage of sign makers / letter stickers, would be in a lot of trouble overnight.

Oh well, I can still dream of that day.

 

[Mosh]

What is that designer didn't like carved signs...it is all matter of opinion...just saying.
That would start us on a slippery slope, next you wouldn't be able to have strip clubs in a strip mall!

 

[SignManiac]

I personally don't care what a sign is made of. That's not the problem. The problem is the design itself. If you don't know how to design, then you will never be able to create a good looking sign. I bet 70% of the people making signs today have never once studied anything related to design, fonts, color theory, basic layout skills. Until this changes, shops will continue to keep on spitting out vile garbage on anything you can stick vinyl on.

Never gonna change and that makes me sad. I may start talking to a shrink about it The sign profession has become a very lowly disrespected industry. There, I'm off of my soap box for a least a few days. Have a good weekend. I'm off to buy an industrial 16" radial arm saw

Oh and sorry for pirating this thread!

 

[Doyle]

You want help adding numbers to make a sign for a math training center= irony

I guess I was the only one.

LOL, I missed it, but ironic

So, where'd you come in at?

$4240.80

I personally don't care what a sign is made of. That's not the problem. The problem is the design itself. If you don't know how to design, then you will never be able to create a good looking sign. I bet 70% of the people making signs today have never once studied anything related to design, fonts, color theory, basic layout skills. Until this changes, shops will continue to keep on spitting out vile garbage on anything you can stick vinyl on.

Never gonna change and that makes me sad. I may start talking to a shrink about it The sign profession has become a very lowly disrespected industry. There, I'm off of my soap box for a least a few days. Have a good weekend. I'm off to buy an industrial 16" radial arm saw

Oh and sorry for pirating this thread!

While I agree that most signs look like garbage, I also agree that it is a slippery slope in allowing an entity to dictate what my sign will look like, unless, of course THEY are paying for it....