designAsign Blog

Here's the Royal Mail last posting dates for the United Kingdom, 2011. For orders placed with designAsign, we need to receive all stock orders the day BEFORE these last posting dates; for all custom orders we need to receive and confirm the order TWO DAYS BEFORE these last posting dates. Don't worry, we will let you know if there's any likelihood of missing the relevant last posting date because of a late order, and discuss any alternatives. To see the last posting dates at the Royal Mail site, click here.

As we prepare our stock for upload to the new format website for designAsign, here's a couple of vintage boxing film excerpts from boxing matches at the turn of the last century!

There's a contest for the heavyweight championship - Squires vs. Burns, Ocean View, California., July 4th, 1907 / Miles Brothers.  This is an actual film of the heavyweight championship prize fight. The fight was labeled the shortest and fiercest prize fight on record up to that time.

Also the Leonard-Cushing fight / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. c1894. From a six-round contest between Mike Leonard, commonly called the "Beau Brummel" of pugilism, and Jack Cushing. Full of hard fighting, clever hits, punches, leads, dodges, body blows and some slugging.

Enjoy!

The custom order pages are now up and running at the new designAsign site.

Click Custom Mouse Mats to order your quality custom mouse mat; for metal signs click Custom Metal Signs.

Each custom mouse mat & metal sign is printed here in England, in-house, using a technology called dye sublimation. The inks penetrate the surface of the mouse mat or metal sign at high temperature which is then quickly cooled leaving a vibrant image. This printing process enables images to be printed in full colour and at a high resolution which makes it possible to reproduce both solid colour and photographic images faithfully. We use colour stable inks and accurate colour profiling software to ensure we supply the best value mouse mats and metal signs available.

An early beta release of the free Age Your Image tool from Crafty Fox Designs is now available to you. Upload an image and have fun ageing it. Download the finished work to your PC.

The final Beta release of the designAsign e-Card Generator is now available. Please try it out. No cumbersome sign-ups or external website logins etc. We will be making available hundreds of further images for use with the e-Card Generator over coming weeks; and a few other interesting online tools and resources too.

Welcome to our new website. Its not quite finished, but we are almost there - just a few thousand more products to list! If you have ideas for new products or image collections, or just want to share with us your passion for metal signs, here's the place to do it.

Martin & Roma

Design A Sign Limited