Our Story
We didn't grow up here.
We drove out west, looked around, and decided to stop waiting for permission. That's the short version. Here's the rest of it.
We came out from Ontario. A trip west changed our minds about where we wanted to build something, and we never went back.
We picked Bridge Lake on purpose — good people, a strong sense of place, and room for the kind of work we wanted to do. We built the shop from nothing and we're still here, which out here counts for more than anything we could put in an advert.
We're not trying to be the biggest shop around. We're trying to be the one people call when something matters.
Katie & Liam — the whole shop.
Who you're dealing with
Two people, and that's the whole shop.
When you phone, one of us answers. When your artwork gets built, one of us builds it. When it goes on your vehicle, one of us is the one installing it.
Production and install.
Ten years in wraps, sign installs and production. He's the one who knows why an edge lifts in year two, which surfaces need priming before anything will hold, and how to get a clean result on a corrugated trailer side.
He does the measuring, and he does the installing. If something on your vehicle isn't going to work the way you're picturing it, he'll tell you before it's printed rather than after.
Design and brand.
Ten years in art and design, eight of them in animation and gaming — which is a background in making things read clearly at a glance, under motion, at whatever size the screen happens to be.
That turns out to matter a great deal on a truck door passed at 80km/h. She builds the artwork, handles logos and brand work, and is the reason the finished vehicle looks considered rather than assembled.
How we work
Three things we won't budge on.
We tell you the truth about materials
Including when the cheaper option is genuinely the right one, and including when what you're asking for won't last as long as you think. You can't make a good decision on bad information.
We won't promise a date we can't hold
Production queues and freight into the Cariboo aren't ours to control. We'd rather give you a real date late than an optimistic one early and then let it slide.
Your artwork is yours
If we design your logo, you get the vector files. No holding your brand hostage so you have to come back to us — you'll come back because the work was good.
Day to day
Half the job happens at the vehicle.
Artwork gets built at the desk. Then it goes on wherever the vehicle or the building happens to be — and that's the part that decides how it looks in year three.