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Classic Quarterboard History

12 March 2011

Nineteenth-century sailing ships displayed their names on decoratively carved and painted wood signs called quarterboards. When a ship's captain retired and went ashore he would acquire the quarterboard and place it on his house for all to admire.

International Sign Contest 2011

04 February 2011

Signs of the Times Magazine has gone public with the winners of the annual 'International Sign Contest'. We are pleased to announce that four of our signs won awards in this year's competition.

Create Your Own Handcrafted Sign!

12 January 2011

Great signs start with great designs. From day one Danthonia has valued the time of our designers and charged clients a reasonable fee for any design work. But not everyone wants to pay a designer to come up with custom designs. Some people know "just what they want", they just want to be able to communicate their ideas, and get the sign made!

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6 March 2010

Dental Sign 'Inspirational'

It's not every day that the artisans here at Danthonia get to sculpt & paint a blue mouse wearing a scarf and driving a classic MGA. Three years ago, however, that's exactly what we did for Ed Montgomery Dental Surgery in Glen Innes.

Inspired by Big Daddy Roth's 'Rat Fink' and British cartoon 'Danger Mouse', this gold-toothed character has been promoting the business on the sign as well as printed marketing material.

'We were not sure what we wanted at first- but Danthonia worked together with us until we had just the right design. We opted for something humorous that would relax our patients and help them to smile when they came for an appointment. This sign does exactly that! and we are very happy with the many positive comments that we are getting.'

But Ed and Deanna Montgomery aren't the only ones who got a kick out of this design. In December, it was featured on the Dental Heroes website as one of Five Inspirational Examples of Dental Practice Signage.

Thankyou, Corey Kemp, for your interesting article on humourous dental signs!

Danthonia's original painting of 'Montgomery Mouse'

Take a look at our Dental Signs Portfolio to see more examples of work we've done for dentists.

Related Pages: Danthonia Designs, Office Signs