An empty black steel A-frame board seen from one side, two hinged panels open into an A with a cross brace between them, a carry handle standing up out of the top edge and a wide flat foot rail running out past the frame at the bottom

Boards and Doorways

A-Frame Sign Board Rentals

The sign that stands on the ground and carries a 24 × 36 in graphic on each face.

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Specifications

Square steel tubing and an extended base.

Square steel tubing under black powder coat at 17 lb, with an extended base whose feet reach out past the frame. There is no writable surface anywhere on it, so it is not a chalkboard: everything it carries is printed, rigid and slid in from the top.

Panel size24 × 36 in, one per face
FacesTwo, printed the same or differently
FrameSquare steel tubing
FinishBlack powder coat
BaseExtended profile, footprint wider than the frame
LoadingFrom the top, tool-free
HandleConcealed — pulls up, pushes back down flush
StandingFreestanding, nothing fixed to the building
Weight17 lb (7.71 kg)
UseIndoor and outdoor
ArtworkYou supply a rigid panel per face

Where two faces are worth having

Six doorways an A-frame belongs in.

  • Outside a session room

    Session in progress on the approach, next at 2:15 on the way back. The same frame answers two different questions depending on which direction somebody is walking.

  • A street entrance

    Event name facing the pavement and a floor plan facing the door, so the sign recruits from outside and orients from inside without being moved.

  • Mid-corridor, both ways

    Run the same graphic twice and it reads from either end. This is the case where two faces is not two messages, it is one message that cannot be walked past from behind.

  • A multi-day programme

    One frame and three sets of panels covers three days. The panel drops in from above and lifts out the same way, so the change happens where the frame stands.

  • A pop-up in a mall concourse

    Nothing may be fixed to a shopfront, a pillar or a balustrade, so the sign has to bring its own floor. This one does and it comes away at the end of the day leaving nothing behind.

  • A closed entrance

    A redirect at a door that is not in use — building works, a private function, an exit-only route. It goes where the problem is and comes away when the problem does.

What goes behind the board

A sign at the door builds the crowd at the door.

Put a board on the pavement announcing doors at seven and by ten to seven there is a crowd in front of it with no shape at all. Belt posts are what give that crowd a front and a side before the doors move. Matte black, a 12.6 inch base, planned at 8 ft between posts like every other queue on the site.

See the belt posts
A matte black belt post pair, belt extended between the two heads at hip height

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