High School outdoor sign ?

[Ldireprophil]

What material would work best for long-term

outside exposed install?

 

[Johnny Best]

Granite

 

[MikePro]

unless they wanna go super fancy with someting, typically these are just painted dibond panels or aluminum pans that are screwed/bolted to a wall with individual panels screwed/rivot'd onto the face that can be updated with vinyl graphics.
ezpz.
if desired, take it a step further with some dimensional school logos with painted PVC/Sintra and gooseneck lighting

 

[ChaseO]

I think what he was referring to is sometimes a piece of glass or plastic can cook what's underneath it, or get condensation between them. I usually just warn them of that danger and use traditional cast laminate over the sign and hope it doesn't get vandalized.

 

[MikePro]

if anything else, people want that "cover" to protect it from cheese fries. 2nd surface UV print on clear acrylic could do the trick too

 

[AGCharlotte]

the OP needs something that can be updated w/ new records, so I get the glass cover thing. Depending on how it's done, updates could be done in cut lettering. Could frame it and cover it in acrylic/lexan some way that's moderately serviceable for removing to update.

 

[unclebun]

Look up church and school signs with vandal covers. Very common. Typically they will have a changeable letter sign behind the cover.

For a track record sign, you'd typically design it so that the background of the sign contains the lettering for the various events, with track or other types of holders for small aluminum inserts containing the person's name and time/distance, so that when records are broken a new plate can be made and swapped in.

 

[Stacey K]

We add cut vinyl lettering to update most of our signs. No covers of glass or anything like that...just a printed sign and cut vinyl updates.