The Banner Blog

Update: Class has been moved to Spring Quarter.

Nora Norby, president of Banner Creations, and Bruce Wright, editor of Fabric Architecture magazine, are hosting a workshop on Fabric Structures and Printing Methods through The University of Minnesota College of Design (CDes). Download the Information and Registration PDF to learn more.

0708 Hands-On: Banners, Sunshades & Fabric Structures
1 session, 3.5 Hrs AIA-HSW; .875 IDP Units; $105; $95 CC
Includes a light meal

Explore a variety of interior/exterior banners, screens and architectural graphics created with fabric as you learn about sources and properties of industrial materials, printing, and construction techniques. This workshop includes in-shop demonstrations with the newest “green” products including recycled and up-cycled fabrics, and safer low-VOC inks.

Inspiring examples of the international design and assembly of larger fabric structures, screens and sunshades will also be shown. Nora Norby, MFC, an expert in textile printing and finishing, will explain the basics of different fabrics and printing methods and direct tours and printing demonstrations at Banner Creations. Bruce N. Wright, AIA, editor of Fabric Architecture magazine, will present the latest in industrial fabrics, sunshades and fabric structures.

Location: Banner Creations Inc., 1620 Central Ave., Suite 151, Minneapolis, 612-871-1015

The In-Store Marketing Expo will be held in Chicago IL on Sept 26-27, 2007. This year’s event will combine the In-Store Marketing Expo and the Total Retail Experience (TREX). Merging these shows promises to deliver an even greater audience to exhibiting companies, a broader, more compelling offer to attendees, and a more affordable and practical opportunity to all within the industry.

Banner Creations will be traveling there to display the newest in eco-friendly and recycled fabrics for retail displays. RFID integration with fabric products will also be highlighted. Come visit us to see how you can carry your company’s recycling mission through to point of purchase displays!

Come visit us with at Booth #120. We will have daily drawings for autographed books by explorers Anne Bancroft and Will Steger.

Call 1-800-326-3524 for your free passes to the show!

From October 7 — 20, Denver will host an Urban Forest Project. Banner Creations, Inc. is donating all 48 banners for this event.

The Urban Forest Project is a unique design exhibition featuring the work of over 40 designers and students from all over Colorado. Planned to coincide with the AIGA National Design Conference, it will showcase the talent and enthusiasm Colorado has for design and put it on display for the 3,000+ attendees of the conference. At the same time, it will shine a light on sustainable design issues as well as raise money for Colorado design education initiatives.

Banner Creations has donated the 48 banners for this project which will utilize Ecophab™. Ecophab™ is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. After the banners have hung they will be made into tote bags — similar to The Green Bag — and sold on the UFP web site as a fundraiser for Colorado design education initiatives. By using recycled fabric and up-cycling the banners into bags, the project will have a very minimal environmental footprint.

For more information on this event please go to http://www.denverurbanforest.com/ or call Banner Creations at 1.800.326.3524. Visit our main site on the web at http://www.bannercreations.com/.