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We are your source for graphic and marketing materials that grow your business.

What’s a print company doing with a blog?  Here are some goals: Share client success. Discuss marketing trends. Help you grow your business. You never know what you might find, but at a minimum, we’ll educate and put a smile on your face.

  • Guest entries from customers and vendors
  • Innovative installations to grow your business
  • Employee achievement and team spotlights

Our goal is to share information that is interesting, answer your questions and helps you make decisions about the printing services you need.

CHI-Light on Local Business

Year-end always gets our team thinking about how fortunate we are. As a printer that calls River North home, there are so many interesting businesses in the metro area we’ve had an opportunity to collaborate with:

☑ Venture Capital backed start-ups and tech companies that make a positive impact on…

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What is The Purpose of Signage?

As the Five Man Electrical Band once sang:

Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign! 

And it’s true, each day you most likely see one. Maybe towering over the interstate on your morning commute. Or hanging on the exterior of your favorite coffee shop.

So what is the purpose of signage? Since I…

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Life as an intern at Cushing

This summer we had the pleasure of hosting an intern from Marwen’s Art@Work program. And now you’re wondering, sounds great! What is that?

WHAT IS ART @ WORK?:
Art at Work is a 5-week summer internship program for young people to be hired and paid as professional young artists. The program is…

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5 Reasons to Plan ADA Signage

Plans are moving along, construction has started, and the project is coming together. You’re getting through your checklist. The next item you need to check off? The fire marshal walk-through. And you realize your signage is not up to the federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design.

It…

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Leverage LinkedIn With David J.P. Fisher

How do you use LinkedIn? With over 750 million members, the social network is a place to learn, connect, and of course, send a sales pitch immediately after making a new connection. Joking! But my guess is if you have an account, you’ve experienced this.

Or a few random requests, from…

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New Project for Newberry Library

Every project we get to work on is special. And we love opportunities to share more of the story. Normally we do our best to tell them in our portfolio and case studies section. Some don’t come together as a full-blown story, and that’s OK!

Our team recently completed work on…

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