We often get questions about whether we make double sided or hanging signs. They simple answer is yes. I haven’t managed to update the website yet, but I am planning to open an entire section dedicated to hanging signs.
If you want to enquire about a double sided sign, please contact us.
This sign might not be to everyone’s taste, but it was the funnest sign to make this year.
For some reason, it never really got a good photo, so this is the best I can do. The sign has flat red letters, but each letter has a carved gold border. The stars are carved into the sign and gilded with palladium.
It was meant to look like a Mars Bar (that is, a UK one), and we certainly thought about eating chocolate a lot while we made it.
By the way, has anyone noticed that Amazon now sells food!
The hardest thing I found about setting up this blog with WordPress was changing the default thumbnail size for images. There are quite a few posts about this on the Internet, but only one of them turned out to be any good.
Here it is: http://blog.japonophile.com/flexible-upload/
Flexible upload lets you specify the thumbnail size as you upload, adds the correct tags if you are using lightbox.js or thickbox.js and offers advanced image placement options.
It worked great, was easy to install and hasn’t caused any problems.
We create many personalised house signs for our customers. We do say that we can do anything - hence you get requests for all sorts of things.
Here is Frank Zappa’s moustache and goatee.
It actually made quite a nice sign, with 23.5 carat gold leaf over a sculpture of Frank’s facial hair!
The person who bought this told me “I have loads of friends who would die for a Frank Zappa house sign” which leads me to think there are many of you who haven’t come forward with your strange request.
Why not try us out? Check out our custom signs page for free design and advice on your rock star house sign!
Warning - below is a sad and traumatic story which may not be suitable for lovers of small furry pets!
Jane Wiggins is an artist, painting for Clover Signs where she lives in Newham, London. On Saturday she was a proud owner of a extremely adorable guinea pig. Today, she is mourning his somewhat bizarre fate.
Sunday Morning:
On Sunday Jane is cleaning her kitchen. The back door into the garden is open to allow gusts of semi-fresh Newham air in. The guinea is munching some breakfast in the living room.
Jane returns to the living room and notices the guinea’s cage is empty! A trail of sawdust leads out the door and up the steps into the garden. A search party is gathered but the hunt is futile. The guinea has vanished. We wonder about a fox, but don’t really think one would enter a house.
Monday Morning:
Jane is enjoying an early morning cup of tea at the living room table. Once more, the door is open to the garden.
The fox saunters calmly into the living room and goes to the now empty guinea cage. It is rather surprised at the loud and high pitched reaction from Jane, and since there doesn’t appear to be any more food in the offing, it walks back out of the house and up the stairs.
It seems like London is being overrun by foxes. Life in the country is hard but here they get their fill of chicken and chips everyday, with the occasional guinea on the side.
What shall we do?
When creating www.cloversigns.co.uk, I tried to make usability a key priority. This has paid off greatly - even though I never take the view point that my site is the best. Every site can be improved to make a better user experience.
A book I found indispensable while making the site was Steve Krug’s “Don’t Make Me Think”. It’s cheap from Amazon for what it’s worth, so I couldn’t recommend it highly enough.
It covers the basics of designing websites for usability in a simple easy to read fashion. As I was reading it, I thought “that’s common sense, why write about it?” but when I actually looked at my site, I wan’t doing it!
So if you want to invest in something worthwhile, buy it now!
