Signs Never Sleep

Atlantic Tire and Alignment by Hassan Sign Company

Atlantic Tire and Alignment by Hassan Sign Company

Gaughen, Gaughen, Lane & Hernando by Hassan Sign Company

Gaughen, Gaughen, Lane & Hernando by Hassan Sign Company

The Fluency Factory Learning Center by Hassan Sign Company

The Fluency Factory Learning Center by Hassan Sign Company

Pilgrim Cooperative Bank by Hassan Sign Company

Pilgrim Cooperative Bank by Hassan Sign Company

A sign created by Hassan Sign Company will be seen by 3.5 million people this month

One of the missions of the Signs Never Sleep Blog is to make people aware of amazing sign artists and the signs they create.  Too often, when people think of "signs" they picture street signs or inexpensive "One Day Sale - Everything Must Go!" signs or the lighted "Stop n' Go" sign where they buy gas every morning.

The Signs Never Sleep Blog wants to open a world of possibilities for the sign customer.  We want the bar to be set a little bit higher, and the sign customer's expectations to be grander. There are great, amazing, beautiful signs being created every day, and all a customer needs to do is ask for one.

Hassan Sign Company recently produced a reproduction of a incredible, dimensionally carved sign for a local fire department.  This past Friday, a picture and description of this sign was shown on BoingBoing Gadgets.  BoingBoing found this sign on Signs Never Sleep (one of their writers visits the Signs Never Sleep Blog every day - thanks Joel).

BoingBoing is the 4th most read blog in the world.  3.5 MILLION people visit BoingBoing every month.  David Hassan's sign will be seen by 3.5 million people this month.

Mission accomplished...

~contributed by J.D. Iles

Atlantic Tire and Alignment Dimensional Sign in Hull, MA: By Hassan Sign Company

Atlantic Tire and Alignment Dimensional Sign in Hull, MA:  By Hassan Sign Company

Turnberry carved, residential house sign with gold-leaf: By Hassan Sign Company

Turnberry carved, residential house sign with gold-leaf:  By Hassan Sign Company

Hand-carved fishing lure sign for the Bite Me Cafe: By Hassan Sign Company

Hand-carved fishing lure sign for the Bite Me Cafe:  By Hassan Sign Company

Carved house sign for the Caddyshack gopher: By Hassan Sign Company

Carved house sign for the Caddyshack gopher:  By Hassan Sign Company

Hand-Carved sign for The Flower Garden LLC in Canton, MA: By Hassan Sign Company

Hand-Carved sign for The Flower Garden LLC in Canton, MA:  By Hassan Sign Company

Carved and gilded Fire Company sign from the 1800's: Re-Created by Hassan Sign Company: Cohasset, MA

This was a re-creation of a sign that was done originally in the 1860's and then re-done in 1942. The 1942 sign was a beautiful piece, all carved in pine. Due to a lack of maintenance it was pretty well rotted. We created this one out of multiple layers of HDU backed up with MDO. Including the 30" tall statue of the firefighter on top the sign was 12'-6"wife and 9' tall.

So... The original(1942) sign is now in the Bare Cove Fire Museum in Hingham Ma. This is a great place to visit as they have some great pieces of Fire memorabilia. Some great old signs, Firefighting vehicles with some great striping. I think I have some photos I will post up soon.

This sign was really a combination of router and hand carving. I digitized photos I took of the original sign to get a vector file and routed out the pieces on our MultiCam. I recessed areas and made a lot of stop cuts in the scroll work to make the carving go a little quicker. The scrolls were all carved by hand. The TORRENT lettering and the 2's were done on the router with a little bit of hand carving so that they didn't look routed. The frame and mouldings on the Torrent panel were created in EnRoute and run on the MultiCam. The little guy on top was glued up with layers of HDU and hand carved. We made the hose out of a piece of copper pipe that we wrapped with string and carved a little wooden nozzle. I wanted to update the firefighter a little bit but the client really wanted us to match the original statue that was done in the 1860's. We routed a little brass plate for the front of the statues' pedestal that has our shop logo and the date on it.

~  contributed by David Hassan of Hassan Sign Company

Carved and gilded Fire Company sign from the 1800's:  Re-Created by Hassan Sign Company:  Cohasset, MA

Hassan Sign Company: Creating incredible carved signs in Massachusetts since 1971

There are some sign-makers, that over the course of their career, have left their mark on their community by creating a legacy of beautiful signs.  David Hassan is one of these sign-makers.  If you ever travel in the Cohasset, MA area, you will be treated to seeing some of the finest, carved-wooden signs in the country.  Dave has a unique talent to take a customers image and to transform it into a memorable icon that balances color, personality and uniqueness.

"Founded in 1971 Hassan Sign Company has evolved from the hand-carved work of one individual wielding chisels, mallets and bench knives, to an internationally known business employing the talents of many artisans using a variety of design and production techniques.

Designer and company founder, David Hassan has integrated his expert craftsmanship with state-of-the-art technology to create some of the finest signs and logos in his native New England, as well as across the country and beyond the shores of the Atlantic."  Link

Royal Lake Village Condominimum Carved Wooden Sign in Braintree, MA: By Hassan Sign Company

Royal Lake Village Condominimum Carved Wooden Sign in Braintree, MA:  By Hassan Sign Company