Why
a silhouette sign? 
A Silhouette has immediate and lasting impact. You instantly capture
the essence of the subject. There is no the burden of interior detail.
Your imagination can take its time filling in the story line. Interpretations
of the story's details may differ, but the IMPACT will always be immediate
and enduring.
Together, we can design a silhouette that says, "This is who we are
- what's important to us - what we like - what we want you to know about
us." We can step beyond even this level of personalization by using
your own photographs. The Sonle image was created using a standard size
album photo. Please check out our "Client
Stories" pages to see what others have accomplished.
What is a silhouette?
 A
silhouette is the outline of an object, often filled in with a color
contrasting with the background. The word "Silhouette" is
derived from a French 18th Century bureaucrat, Etienne de Silhouette,
who filled his idle time by cutting magnificent designs from paper.
Silhouettes were seen way back in Paleolithic cave drawings. Both the
early Greeks and Chinese
made extensive use of
silhouettes. The process lent itself to the times as any lightsource,
such as the sun, was all that was needed to cast the object's shadow
directly on a wall, screen, etc. for the artist to trace or cutout.
In Western Civilization silhouette art reached it's pinnacle in the
17th and 18th century. It was used extensively to record the likeness
of individuals in a much
less expensive medium than commissioning a painting or sculpture. Of
course, the development of modern photography ultimately displaced the
silhouette as the most common art form.
Today, countless images bombard us at every turn so it's important to
tell our story quickly, with dramatic impact. A silhouette does exactly
that and is experiencing new popularity.
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