(Revised October 2005) Section 3.B

Section 3.B -- Extension Signage and Displays

Entrance Signs

Iowa citizens need to know what to look for when they want reliable information and education. They need to know that each county extension office, though independent, has access to science-based information and is an important part of Iowa State University.

Following a survey in the fall of 1998 in which more than 70 county offices provided photos of existing office entrance signs for designers to review, ISU Extension adopted policies to strengthen the visual identity of each county office and to simplify the ordering of new signs. The new sign designs built on the signage policy adopted in 1995 based the new extension wordmark. County offices were asked to replace all pre-1995 signs and were given financial support to purchase at least one sign during 1999. The new signs use the khaki and red wordmark on a cream background and include the county name.

Counties who need additional signage or who still have pre-1995 signs in use can purchase signs from the vendor who supplied the 1999 orders. An order form is available as a Microsoft Word document. Signs are provided on 1/8-inch thick aluminum panels and are shipped from campus. Counties will need to contract locally for installation. There is no sales tax. Signs will be delivered to campus and can be picked up at Extension Distribution Center.

Item

Cost to county

Sign format

12 in. by 8 in. Window Sign

$ 53.30

2 ft. by 1 1/2 ft. sign

$ 98.56

3 ft. by 2 ft. sign

$149.21

5 1/2 ft. by 2 ft. sign

$227.01

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Tabletop Displays

Specifications for a new tabletop display system that is replacing the Downing displays in use for the past several years were approved in June 2000. The new system is a four-panel Nimlok unit that can be ordered with a shoulder carrying case, a wheeled carrying case, and a table skirt. Herb Dixon and Associates of Des Moines has an agreement with Extension to provide these displays at a fixed cost through early 2003.

A memo dated June 20, 2000, provides backgrounds on the displays and the purchase arrangement, and an order form also is available.

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