Boards and Doorways
A-Frame Board Rentals — 24 × 36 in
The sign that stands on the ground and stops somebody at the door. It leans out into the walkway, carries a 24 × 36 in graphic on each face and needs no wall, no rigging and nobody’s permission to fix anything to a building.
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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 profile — the feet reach out past the frame, so the footprint is wider than the sign and there is more leverage holding it down. One thing it is not: there is no writable surface anywhere on this frame, so it is not a chalkboard. Everything it carries is printed, rigid and slid in from the top.
| Panel size | 24 × 36 in, one per face |
|---|---|
| Faces | Two, printed the same or differently |
| Frame | Square steel tubing |
| Finish | Black powder coat |
| Base | Extended profile, footprint wider than the frame |
| Loading | From the top, tool-free |
| Handle | Concealed — pulls up, pushes back down flush |
| Standing | Freestanding, nothing fixed to the building |
| Weight | 17 lb (7.71 kg) |
| Use | Indoor and outdoor |
| Artwork | You 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.
The other way to stand a graphic up
Two faces on the floor or one at eye level.
An A-frame puts 24 × 36 inches on each face and takes the floor to do it. The poster stand puts a smaller 22 × 28 inch graphic higher up, on two slim uprights over a flat base that occupies almost nothing. Where the sign is competing with a crowd rather than with a pavement, height beats panel area.
Compare the poster stand