Sci-fi enthusiast Cris Knight built a costume using Sintra expanded PVC board for the Comic-Con convention in Las Vegas. The character “Bender” from the popular animated television series Futurama, written and designed by Matt Groening, was the inspiration for the costume.
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Dibond Helps Students Bend The Rules In Architectural Exhibit
Graduate students were “Bending the Rules” in a recent exhibit at the Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture in Brooklyn, N.Y., with four full-scale architectural design pieces fabricated with Dibond aluminum composite material (ACM).
NEW SMART-X® Heavy-Duty, Recyclable Foam Board Introduced to Americas by 3A Composites USA
STATESVILLE, N.C. (Jan. 23) – SMART-X® graphic display board has been introduced by 3A Composites USA as the first heavy-duty foam board available in the Americas that is 100 percent recyclable.
Dibond Aluminum Composite Breaks Into New Market With Custom Furniture
Primarily used in retail displays, trade exhibits, kiosks, framing and signage, we also appreciate when clients transform the Dibond product with unique applications.
GATORFOAM® Help CSI Printing & Graphics Sprout Intricately Routed Tree Display
Composition Systems Inc. (CSI), of Falls Church, Va., has made a name for itself as a full-service digital print provider serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, Virginia and Maryland as well as national accounts during the past 30-plus years in business.
FOME-COR® BOARD Now Available in Half-inch Thickness For Added Dimensionality, Rigidity in Displays
3A Composites USA is pleased to announce that original Fome-Cor® graphic display board now is available in the ½-inch thickness.
Fome-Cor board in the ½-inch thickness allows graphic designers to add more dimensionality and rigidity to short-term point-of-purchase displays, interior signage, and exhibits and kiosks. Fome-Cor board can be die-cut producing a permanently closed compressed edge and can be embossed to create three-dimensional effects.
FOME-COR® Bright White for Printing Vibrant Graphics to be Introduced at 2013 SGIA Expo
3A Composites USA is pleased to announce that Fome-Cor® graphic display board now is offered with the brightest whitest surface available to create graphics that pop in direct digital-printing and screen-printing applications. Fome-Cor Bright White is ideal for direct printing point-of-purchase displays, interior signage, and exhibits and kiosks as well as for mounting printed graphics.
Gatorfoam Helps Mobile Whimsy Cards’ Booth Circle the Competition
Tamera Lawrence has always loved circles.
“Circles resonate with me; they’re never-ending,” said Lawrence, a Santa Monica, Calif.-based graphic designer and the self-described “ringmaster” of Mobile Whimsy™ Greeting Cards. Each card in the contemporary Mobile Whimsy line features a mini mobile comprised of three circles vertically placed and decorated with witty wordplay depicted on one side with graphics and printed on the other side with words. In Mobile Whimsy-speak, a message of affection reads “Eye Heart Ewe” and is visually depicted with corresponding graphics.
GATORFOAM® Helps Fabricator Scare Up Toy-Fair Traffic with Monster-Sized Action Figure Display
Creating a monster-sized display to promote sales of Disney/Pixar’s “Monsters University” movie-themed action figures at the 2013 American International Toy Fair in New York earlier this year didn’t scare fabricators at New-York based Underground Visuals, Inc. They knew they could count on Gatorfoam®, the original heavy-duty foam board,
New FIBERMATE™ Exhibited with 3A Composites’ Lines of Interior, Exterior Substrates at GLOBALSHOP 2013
3A Composites USA will be exhibiting its well-known lines of rigid substrates for creating retail-store displays as well as architectural panels used in retail corporate identity programs at Booth No. 1222 at GlobalShop 2013, the retail design and shopper marketing show, at McCormick Place in Chicago April 16-18.