Office Sign Company Has a New Artist; Meet Jake Schaffer

Hey. I’m Jake Schaffer. I came from South Dakota to Fargo and went to college at MState for two years. After that I hung out in Fargo and worked a variety of jobs and attended entrepreneur events which is where I caught the entrepreneur bug. I learned a little bit about a lot of different…

Office Sign Company to Host Garage Sale to Benefit United Way

It’s always a good time to give back and here at Office Sign Company, we are constantly striving to pour back into our community however we can. That’s why this Friday, we’ll be hosting our very first garage sale with 100% of the proceeds being donated to United Way. With old signs, coffee mugs, letters…

What Gilmore Girls Taught Us About Successful Event Signage

Yesterday morning, a few of us in the office woke up early and braved the windchill while we stood in line for nearly an hour outside a local coffee shop that had transformed into the one and only, Luke’s Diner from Gilmore Girls. Why’d we do it? We were in it for the nostalgia and…

5 Reasons Why Traditional Signage Wins in a Digital Age

It’s no secret that we live in an ever changing, wildly evolving, mostly digital age. Our phones are updating constantly, our computers seem to require weekly upgrades to improve performance, and our world is leaning heavily into anything and everything digital. In this season of life, there are few traditions that we can cling to…

Lilly Cristy Here, Signing On as the New PR Girl at OSC

Hailing from small town Washington, you could say Fargo is a bit different than what I’m used to. But, as I’m quick to remind many who doubt the charm that North Dakota has to offer; different is never bad, it’s just different. So how did a PNW gal like me end up in North Dakota?…

Signage: The Forgotten Super Hero

I love books. As part English major, I feel like that might be required.What’s better than books? Rows and rows of them! Yeah, I’m talking about bookstores. I could spend a good couple hours perusing shelves, reading back covers and building towers of my favorite finds. While I have a favorite genre – I’m looking at you,…

Why We Love Signs (And You Should Too!)

Signs. They’re everywhere! From your monthly horoscope, to cornfields… Nope, okay, wrong kind of signs. We’re in the business of making some pretty awesome office signage and much more. Which is as cool as the movie Signs, but with less aliens. That’s a win-win situation. Now, are you wondering why we love signs SO much? Well,…

OSC Takes TEDxFargo

“Be naive and ignorant enough to believe you can change the world.” Yesterday’s TEDx event kicked off at 9 a.m. with this wisdom from co-host Erik Hatch. Months of planning, collaboration, and hard work had to take place before yesterday morning, and OSC got to take part in that! Jack Yakowicz, Marketing Coordinator at Office…

A Fondness for Fonts

A Fondness for Fonts Dr. Albert Mehrabian, author of Silent Messages, conducted studies regarding nonverbal communication. Mehrabian found that 93% of daily communication isn’t what you’re saying with words, but rather everything else. Similar to how we physically communicate with each other, typography communicates through design many of the same “unspoken” elements.  One of the…

Signs Throughout the Times

Try to count the number of times you have used a sign today: maybe you used one for directions to the interstate, thought, “Oh, that’s where that new restaurant is!”, found the vegetable aisle at the grocery store, or merged to the left lane to avoid driving through a construction zone. It’s hard to tally,…