Busy finish to 2022 - new neon lights for Brisbane

After 25 years we completely refurbished this double-sided neon blade sign at McWhirter’s carpark. This was one of our first retails jobs. With a long history of service in Fortitude Valley, this neon sign is destined to shine on brightly for many years to come.

Golden Palace Restaurant in the Chinatown Mall decorated with 80 metres of ruby red roof line neon highlights and a new identification sign in clear gold. This re-installment of the old Claude Neon green strip lighting follows two versions of LED lighting that did not live up to expectation.

Bronze and Silver Awards in the Neon category at 2022 ASGA Sign Awards in Melbounre

Neon Signs Australia were awarded a Bronze award for Rusty’s Lonesome Partridge from Young Rock and a Silver award for the Jumbo Thai tiger in the recent Australian Sign and Graphics Association sign Awards 2022 in Melbourne.

Doc Holliday's neon icon replica

A large part of our current business comes from client requests to replicate famous neon signs from around the world. This replica piece with flashing red explosion lines from the pistol is from a Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA tavern. The photos show the original sign, the replica in our shop and mounted in the clients vintage car collection showroom.

City Lights by Brendan Van Hek

The most difficult installation in our 30 year history, to attach 112 neon tubes of various colour and shapes to aluminium armatures suspended between two circles three metres in diameter. All but twelve of the tubes were installed in a warehouse and then the sculpture was freighted by Events Engineering on a flatbed truck to inner Sydney and suspended so we could attach the tubes that hung below the bottom ring. Then the Events team hoisted it into place and tethered it to the support wires and brought power cables to our ring of transformers.

This work won a gold medal at the Australian Sign and Graphics Awards in the Neon Illumination category 2020.

A time-lapse video of the factory installation can be seen at this you tube address: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJilck_53Io

Man Cave Neon

Colourful neon display for personal entertainment area. Installation before the neon tubes were attached required full size patterns installed to mark holes that all the connecting wires needed to penetrate through two layers of soundproof gyprock. Wiring just after the sheets were fixed to the interior studs allowed for the most discreet manner of concealing these wires.

This work was awarded the Bronze Medal in the Neon Illumination category in the 2020 Australian Sign and Graphics Association sign awards.

Fourex Brewery's new Alehouse Bar & Restaurant

Fourex Brewery wanted to brand their new Alehouse Bar & Restaurant.

Keeping with their heritage and industrial look they requested black painted steel letters that they wanted to be backlit to illuminate at night. Also important was the round barrel head Brewery logo. The bricks the sign was to be mounted to are a pale orange to cream colour and they requested a warm white light.

We positioned 3000K LEDs on the back of the larger letters. Because the smaller Restaurant letters would not easily accommodate LEDs we made up a steel edged light tray and lit it from top and bottom. When viewed from the entrance, the top row was too visible, so we changed to a double row of lights along the bottom where they were easily concealed. The round logo needed the bright white illumination to highlight the dark red background and we used just ten side lit LEDs to achieve this.

Made in Brisbane

Neon Signs Australia and Michael Blazek hosted nearly 50 neon enthusiasts last Saturday and Sunday as part of Made In Brisbane, a special feature from the 2016 Brisbane Open House.

Vintage and restored neon signs glowed from the balcony, including eight recently acquired American beer signs, a Mr. Fourex glass of beer, and reclaimed turquoise neon letters from the Ibis Hotel.

Michael explained the finer points of how different colours are achieved, demonstrated how the glass is bent and the gases, neon and argon, are processed to create the brilliant rainbow of neon colours.