Blackout Signs Builds 3-D Food Truck Sign

ST has documented a fair share of food-truck graphics. However, most have entailed vinyl wraps. Blackout Signs (San Marcos, TX), which has fabricated winning projects in our Vehicle Contest, gave a neighborhood food truck’s graphics a different spin. Blackout’s team of Jay Gordon, Darcy Hanna, Shay Miller and Zach Foerster created a 3-D sign for St. Pita’s, a food truck that owner Matthew Buchanan will drive around and near the Texas State Univ. campus in San Marcos. Buchanan and his wife, Rachel, who also operate a bistro in nearby Wimberley, bought a food truck to offer quality, quick-service food to students and residents.

Blackout MIG-welded the sign’s steel frame, to which it attached an aluminum moving halo. They fabricated the super-sized pita sandwich from sculpted, expanded-polystyrene (EPS) foam. Gordon and his staff coated the EPS with epoxy to protect the sculpture from the elements, and painted it with 1Shot lettering enamels and TJ Ronan japan colors. Blackout decorated the halo with House of Kolor gold-flake paint over a black basecoat. Gordon jigsaw-formed the clouds, which were made of painted aluminum. They coated the letters, which were routed from 15-lb. Coastal Enterprises PrecisionBoard HDU, with Coastal’s FSC-88 water-based primer/filler.

“Darcy and Shay deserve a lot of credit for the creativity and talent that resulted in such a cool piece,” Gordon said.