Custom SIGN Crafters
Ready to transform how your message and visual brand communicates across your environment? Let's create something great! Our experienced team delivers comprehensive services to clients across all industry types, project sizes, challenges and solutions needed to make it happen.
We create distinctive memorable experiences that visually convey what your business is all about.
Our experience as consultants, creative visionaries, strategists, highly skilled fabricators and field technicians delivers in-depth expertise. We deliver smart planning, quality craftsmanship and best placement of everything across your space.
From our dynamic creative studio and state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chicago's West Loop Neighborhood, we create project success!
We have you covered by providing all consulting, design, project management, manufacturing & installation services for a fully streamlined and integrated process. After assessing the situation, asking the right questions and listening to your needs, we identify the best solutions for you.
Then we get to work putting together the right roadmap to achieve your objectives most cost effectively. We'll perfectly execute from start to finish to communicate & elevate your space!
We understand every space has specific messaging, visual branding and unique requirements. Our seasoned team implements a winning process to develop the right signage, visual communications, graphics and specialty finishes to tell your story right.
Always maintaining a big picture focus while keeping an eye on details, we seamlessly blend form and function to elevate the communications, aesthetic appeal and functionality of any environment.
Enhance User Experiences To Connect Them With Your Brand
Move people colorfully from point A to point B and back again in not only a literal way but how
it all figuratively influences and resonates with them.
Make it a memorable & pleasant experience. Make it count. Your visuals are your brand's message
that drives the likeability and understanding of your company's core essence.
We do a complete onsite assessment of your space for both interior & exterior to understand your
needs, challenges along with any opportunites to deliver additional greatness.
After reviewing everything and our conversations with you, we integrate all info gathering such as
sight lines, traffic patterns, current issues, etc. for the best roadmap to achieve your goals.
Impactful Signage & Visuals To Communicate Across Your Space
Let's bring your vision to life by transforming your environment into a masterpiece of style and effectiveness that showcases your business. We custom create and install all the visual communications solutions and speciality finishing touches to make your space special.
From custom signage, to living greenery walls, to acoustic solutions, to custom specialties, and lighting effects just to name a few that ties your entire space together. You have one chance to make a first impression, so let's make it come alive!
Be seen and understood with impactful signage, visual graphics & specialty finishes that speaks to your company's mission. Whether you're a small business seeking a standout storefront sign or large corporation in need of visual branding & communications.
We bring the right mix of experience, skills, talents and know-how to make your project exceptional. Client focused and committed to the highest level of smart thinking, creativity, quality craftsmanship & service.
We step-up, so you can stand-out. Working with us brings special results. It means exceptional client service, sharp designs, smart planning, a transparent process, and a team of expert designers, visionary strategists, fabricators, project managers and installers.
Partnering with you is our honor and we will always have your best interests in mind. We work hard and you can count on us to get it done right.
Businesses Across All Industries
Associations & Non Profit Organizations
Real Estate Developers
Property Management Companies
Architects & Design Agencies
General Contractors & Construction Managers
Retailers & Merchandisers
Manufacturing & Distribution
City & Government
Office & Renovations
Multi-Unit Residential
Healthcare & Senior Living
Financial Services
Hotels & Hospitality / Restaurants & Lounges
Greenspace, Campus & School / University
Retail & Storefront
Stadiums & Arenas / Theater & Cinema
Conferences & Events
Consulting & Strategy
Site Surveys, Samples & Prototyping
Permit & Variance Approvals
Sign & Display Location Mapping
Artwork, Content Creation & 3D Renderings
Message Schedule & Wayfinding Planning
Quality Manufacturing & Professional Installation
Removals & General Contracting Services
Room Identification Signage
Directories & Wayfinding
ADA Braille, Code & Life Safety
Dimensional Letters & Logos
Plaques & Donor Recognition / History Walls
Digital Message Centers
Video Walls
Wall / Glass / Floor Graphics
Privacy Vinyl
Display Cabinets
Brand-Centric Theming
Trade Show / Event Displays
Interior, Exterior, Wayfinding, Digital & Every Custom Finish Imaginable
Channel Letters
Pylon, Blade, Cabinet & Monument Signs
Post & Panel / Directional Signs
High Elevation Building Signage
Campus Wide & Greenspace Signs
Sculptures & Statues
Storefront Signs
Vinyl Banners
Awnings & Canopies
Sign Painting & Murals
Large Format Printing
Carpentry, Masonry, Steel & Excavating Work
From start to finish we handle it all with a seamless integrated approach collaborating with you to provide smart strategy & planning. Our experienced team listens to you, asks the right questions, assesses your situation with strategic review, discussion & onsite analysis to understand your needs.
Then we put together the necessary pieces to create a roadmap for your success. Once the plan is in place, we perfectly execute across all project phases. We streamline the process to achieve your goals.
We've been around the block so our in depth experience excels at even the most challenging and complex projects. No matter how big or small the project and whatever the budget may be, we understand how to best get the job done right.
Always on specifications, on budget, on time and on the mark. Our knowledge, approach, professionalism and execution is second to none.
Our mission is to be your competitive advantage as a full-service custom architectural signage and visual communications partner creating strong communicative and visually influencing brand experiences across your environment. You have one chance to make a first impression.
Make it count by being seen and understood to drive your message home. Exceptional service, experience, planning and quality manufacturing & installation for the right solutions to achieve your goals.
Environmental Graphics Inspire, Motivate, Calm, Sets The Vibe & Renews The Setting
What else can do all of this for visual impact? What makes a cool space? What makes it tick?
Surround your employees with motivational history & accomplishments. Immerse your clients with the great products & services you offer them?
Environmental graphics, printed & custom specialty finishes can create a mood, set the experience and convey the sense of a brand without saying a word. Images & visual effects speak louder than words and our experience in this realm is exceptional.
Make your space influential & effective in every way! Make it stand out. Make a lasting impression.
It begins with our people, their amazing talents and the culture they foster. The right experience, approach, attitude and focus goes a long way. This is how we create success for clients. We are 97 strong and we've been around the block and know how to do it right with a real world approach.
Our consultants, estimators, engineers, fabricators, project managers, installers & maintenance crews are in total sync with our clients' goals and project tasks at hand. We prepare and execute like no one else.
Right mix of branding professionals, free flowing creatives, sharp masterminds, detailed project managers and highly skilled fabricators & installers. Everything we do is to drive your project's success.
Our diverse skills across all phases creates the right results on every project & challenge. We're built for this and our experience really shows.
We Believe Clear Communication Throughout A Project Is Critical To A Successful Outcome
You have our total commitment backed by our consultative smarts, powerful design, excellent project management, pinpoint execution, quality manufacturing & professional installation. Our experience brings the perfect visual communications & branding to move people across your space.
We work at the office to keep a keen eye on things. We answer our phones and reply quickly to emails. We have your back in delivering what you need.
Mike Gallo
President & CEO Founder
No Attitudes Or Platitudes - Just Real World Colorful Results
Megan McKinley
Sr. Vice President Operations
Deborah Hunter
Vice President Consulting
Kathy Rossi
Vice President Creative
Kevin Westfield
Vice President Manufacturing
Kristen McGuire
Vice President Finance & Procurement
Jayden Belfour
Vice President Project Management
Ryan Sloane
Vice President Field Services
Custom Sign Crafters is the best we've worked with. They are very knowledgable and took the time to
understand our business needs. They handled our corporate relocation rebranding with perfection.
They work hard, keep their word, and care. Can't say enough great things about their work.
Lisa R. - Walgreens Corp.
This group is outstanding. Sharp thinking, hard working and real world results that matter.
Exceptional quality. Top visual branding and communications professionals who knows what works.
They deliver exceptionalism on every project.
Bob W. - McDonald's Corp.
Custom SIGN Crafters LLC
2026
Consulting Team
Wesley
Board Chairman