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Apple Valley Liquor Store

Apple Valley, Minnesota

Apple Valley Liquor has recently been awarded Green Globe status through the Green Building Initiative. GBI is a nationally recognized building rating system with third party verification. This project received a 'Two Green Globe' rating and is the first project in the State of Minnesota to be award a Green Globe.

Visual Communications provided the Signage Master Plan, which included exterior low voltage illuminated letters with LED lighting and interior illuminated "Beer Cave" and "Tasting Bar" letters with LED lighting. The 6' tall x 106' wide full color mural is a custom digital print. Custom "Old World" graphics were designed for the wine cellar with changeable title features. Overhead isle signage in the spirits area, include contemporary changeable panels.

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Institute for Global Citizenship
Student & Business Complex
Macalester College
Saint Paul, MN

The new environmentally sustainable Macalester College Institute for Global Citizenship (IGC) building would be Macalester's first building to receive LEED Platinum certification. The designation would make the IGC's new home one of the first Platinum buildings on a college campus in Minnesota and one of only a handful of Platinum buildings on a college or university campus in the United States.

The interior and exterior signage designed by Visual Communications utilize innovative materials which utilize recycled and regional materials including Ecostone. Ecostone is made from fibrous materials including newsprint, cardboard, magazines, telephone books – even worn out currency retired by the government. Material is broken down, turned into pulp, made into a slurry (using hydrogen bonding that eliminates the need for formeldahyde or toxic glues) and is then pressed into sheets.

Signs fabricated and installed by Archetype Signmakers.

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