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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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1 May 2010

Kangaroos With an Eye for Quality

In past articles, we've discussed dimensional signs and their effect on people, but what about animals? Here's a few images recently taken in the Gold Coast hinterland, showing one of our signs being admired by marsupials. This may have been the first time they had seen one of their own rendered as an artist-painted sign sculpture. They didn't mind sharing the moment with photographer Jason Hurst of Burning Image Photography.

Kangaroos at ARRK, near Kooralbyn