Custom hand painted mural for the Active Campaign office in Chicago. Mural artwork was designed by Eight Hour Day.

Hand painted mural, very large exterior painted mural, we painted for Crushed By Giants Brewery downtown Chicago.

Exterior sign project for the Vequity office building in the Fulton Market located in Chicago, Illinois.

Custom signs painted, fabricated and installed for Jim Beam at their historic Clermont, Kentucky distillery. Right Way Signs of Chicago worked with London based Love Creative with their designs and vision to add dynamic and throughout signage throughout the property. We helped engineer a formed face ribbon to give the signage a “wax” look, taking that design to fabrication and installing it on multiple buildings throughout the property. Other work included painting signage on multiple buildings, and fully wrapping a tank with the Jim Beam logo.

Custom sign painting project for the new Vital Proteins HQ in the Fulton Market in Chicago. This project consisted of every sign type we offer: sign painting, murals, LED signage, neon signs, ADA signs, vinyl signage, large format graphics, pin-mounted lettering, bronze plaques. Right Way Signs of Chicago also designed and installed the signage in addition to the fabrication and painting of all of the signs.

Custom neon and marquee signs Right Way Signs of Chicago engineered, fabricated and installed for Stan’s Donuts and Coffee in Chicago.

Hand painted mural for the Hotel Lincoln in Chicago, Illinois. This project measure 80′ x 40 and was painted over 5 weeks by Ches Perry and Randy Pestka of Right Way Signs. Designed by Aubrey Sands of Right Way Signs. Photos by PostGolden.

Custom halo-lit LED sign for Core Spaces in Chicago. This exterior sign in the Bucktown / Wicker Park neighborhood features state-of-the-art color changing LEDs in the “O” of the CORE lettering. Custom pin-mounted LED lettering manufactured, permitted and installed by Right Way Signs of Chicago.

Custom halo-lit LED office signs for Leaf Trade in Chicago.

Custom hand painted and designed mural by Right Way Signs of Chicago for Lakeview based Heritage Bicycles

Project Right Way Signs of Chicago recently completed for Whole Foods in Vernon Hills. This exterior hand painted mural can be found at the Melody Farms development at Townline Road and Milwaukee Ave.

In early 2016, Wrigley Field was in the beginning stages of a massive renovation to bring the 100+ year old ball park into the 21st century, but also preserve its heritage and roots as one of the oldest and most historic baseball parks in the United States. Right Way Signs was approached to bid on the hand painted mural portion of the renovation in the bleachers, painting 11 in total and also winning the bid to build a fake ivy wall for photo opportunities and a Cubs Hall of Fame wall honoring some the Chicago Cubs most beloved players.

To date, this is one of our most favorite projects not just because the Cubs won the world series, but we hope that our work remains apart of the ballpark for another 11 years and sees a handful more World Series championships won.

Right Way Signs of Chicago was hired by the Mellody Farm development in Vernon Hills to design, fabricate and install QTY 2 custom pylon signs. These signs were designed to pay tribute to the heritage of the farms that use to occupy the land the development sits on, featuring a “patchwork” metal and corrugated metal paneling, painted red and distressed to give it an aged look. Although there is LED lighting on the interior of the sign to illuminate the tenant panels, the main feature is the hand bent custom neon for the MELLODY FARM headers on both sides of the signs. Right Way Signs also assisted in obtaining the village approval and securing the sign permits.

Office sign project for President’s Plaza in Chicago. The project consisted of custom neon signs, hand painted signs, custom murals, fabricated signs, vinyl wall wraps and graphics and sign installation.

In early 2016, Wrigley Field was in the beginning stages of a massive renovation to bring the 100+ year old ball park into the 21st century, but also preserve its heritage and roots as one of the oldest and most historic baseball parks in the United States. Right Way Signs was approached to bid on the hand painted mural portion of the renovation in the bleachers, painting 11 in total and also winning the bid to build a fake ivy wall for photo opportunities and a Cubs Hall of Fame wall honoring some the Chicago Cubs most beloved players.

To date, this is one of our most favorite projects not just because the Cubs won the world series, but we hope that our work remains apart of the ballpark for another 11 years and sees a handful more World Series championships won.

Custom sign painting work we did for Invicto in Naperville. These signs were hand painted on the spot without a pounce pattern or projector, all free hand.

Custom interior office sign we fabricated and installed for Showpad in Chicago.

Hand painted mural we recently did for Goose Island Beer Company of Chicago. The mural features elements from Guaranteed Rate Filed, home of the Chicago White Sox.

Custom sign painting and mural project for Twisted Hippo Brewery in Chicago.

Custom sandblasted with 2″ thick 3D lettering, hand painted details for Light the Lamp Brewery in Grayslake, IL.

Custom ADA signs for the Showpad offices in Chicago, honoring Chicago Pizzerias.

Custom 3D brushed aluminum exterior signs, brushed sliver vinyl window graphics, custom sign painting on tile and custom wood menu system.

Custom neon signs and menu board we fabricated and installed for West Town Bakery in Wrigleyville.

The massive hand painted mural in the west Fulton Market was painted for Mosaic. Lead sign painter and mural artist Ches Perry mapped out the entire mural using his yard stick and painted from there, no fancy tools or technology, just old school painting.

Custom LED backlit office signs fabricated and installed for Clarus at the Merchandise Mart.

Custom interior sign painting and mural project for Omega  Yeast in Chicago.

Hand painted brick wall for Big Star in Wrigleyville. This sign painting project was part of a larger exterior project for the famous taco restaurant in Chicago, Illinois.

Custom hand painted and fabricated signage for Smoke Daddy in Wrigleyville at the Hotel Zachary across from Wrigley Field. The project included various sign types such as interior hand painted signs, custom neon signs, custom fabricated light-boxes, and custom fabricated letters that were filled with baseballs. Design by Grip and SPACE.

Custom hand painted mural made from real baseballs for the Chicago White Sox proudly on display in the Chicago Sport Depot, located just across the street from Guaranteed Rate Field. Other features of this custom sign project are digtially printed wall wraps featuring historic players and championship teams from the past. Wall wraps were installed on drywall and brick.

Right Way Signs of Chicago had the pleasure of spending a few weeks in Philadelphia on a sign painting project for Goose Island Beer. The project consisted of interior and exterior sign painting work on a range of surfaces from brick, plaster, wood and even a mural on the side of a large aluminum cooler.

Custom marquee bulb sign fabricated and installed for Dollop Coffee Company in Chicago.

Custom 3D storefront sign and sign painting for Bien MeSabe, a restaurant in the Ravenswood neighborhood.

Custom exterior sign painting project for Bom Bolla in Bucktown. Photos courtesy of True Story.

Custom hand painted Goose Island Beer Company logo for their new office space west of the Fulton Market. Hand painted in a distressed style on brick, this logo was meant to look like it it had been hand painted on the all 40 plus years ago.

We worked on ghost signs for multiple Mod Pizza locations throughout the midwest. This “Super Fast” hand painted ghost sign on brick is one of our favorites.

Dollop Coffee Co. is one of the fastest growing local coffee shops in Chicago,. With 9 locations and many more in the works, they have partnered with Right Way for all of their interior and exterior sign needs. Dollop has a large focus on design, incorporating many different sign types into each space with a large focus on sign painting, murals and hand painted graphics. We have also produced marquee light signs for a handful of locations that help get the attention of outside foot and vehicle traffic.

The Boka Restaurant Group hired us to help them with their interior and exterior signage needs at Duck Duck Goat. The one sign that gets the most attention is their “Take-Out” window neon sign, which won first place at Illinois Sign Association 2017 Award ceremony for the exposed neon category. Designed by AvroKO, this was one of our favorite project of 2016.

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We are passionate about our coffee and passionate about signs, so working with Starbucks was a natural fit. We have completed over 250 projects for them in 2 years across the country, from sign painting, to mural work to art installations, we are very proud of the amount of work we have done for them in such a little time.

Custom signs made for the new Chicago start-up Ezza Nails. Their first of many locations is downtown off Michigan Ave and their attention to detail throughout their space included a handful of very custom made signs from Right Way. The main exterior sign and interior reception letters were painted in their company color in a high gloss to give the look and feel of nail polish. Finally Right Way produced and installed various vinyl products throughout their space and on their windows.

Custom sign we fabricated for Revial Food Hall in the Chicago loop. This very custom sign has front and edge lit formed acrylic, mounted to a custom frame we fabricated and welded in our shop, designed to suspend from the ceiling in the front window of this massive food hall.

Custom sign painting work for Great Central Brewing Co. in the West Fulton Market. Right Way Signs of Chicago has been working with a lot of craft beer and brewery companies throughout Chicago and the US over the last five years. Great Central Brewing is another great company to have done work for and had an appreciation for the craft of hand painted signs and sign painting.

The Chicago office for Sphera Solutions reached out to our company to assist in designing, printing, fabricating and installing new office signs for a space they took over in the loop. The signage package included 3D reception signage for their Chicago office and other office locations all over the US, wall wraps printed using our large format printer, etched window graphics for their conference rooms and office entry, acrylic signs installed using stand-offs and laser cut PVC letters.

Bob Gally, a Chicago-based photographer who does incredible work approached us about designing, permitting, fabricating and installing a sign that would help get him noticed. His new storefront in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago had a lot of foot and vehicle traffic, so he wanted something that could help get him noticed. Mission accomplished, as one of his clients said “your name is in lights” and its helped him drive new traffic through his doors.

Right Way Signs of Chicago had the pleasure of working on this large sign painting and mural project right outside the Fulton Market in Chicago. The project took started in January of 2015 with Right Way painting the yellow background color. From there, we worked with their designer out of New York who took this design inspiration from the auto mechanic shops and their exterior sign designs, many of which was freestyle sign painting and hand lettering.  Besides the hand lettering portion of this project, there was a photo of “Lou” that we needed to paint and make it look as real and authentic as possible. Our resident mural artist Chester did a remarkable job painting his photo at  massive scale.

Right Way Signs of Chicago has had the pleasure of working on projects for Lagunitas every since they opened their brewery in Chicago back in 2014. Projects include interior and exterior sign painting and mural projects, including a 20′ hand painted dog.

One of our largest project to date, Right Way Signs of Chicago was awarded the contract for all interior and exterior signage at Goose Island Brewery’s new brewery tour experience at 1800 W. Fulton. The project included both exterior and interior signage focusing mainly on sign painting and custom mural work. The exterior work most notably focuses on big logo imagery, typography, reclaimed wood and metal, pulling in the feel of an old warehouse with the painting work having a “distressed” feel as if it was painted over 50 years ago. The Tap Room, where the tour begins and ends, has many different sign types. The “Lake Michigan” wall is made of reclaimed wood and has custom illustrations that the Right Way team hand painted in detail.

Ezza Nails wanted their tagline “touch as nails” made into a custom neon sign which that serves as a photo opportunity for their clients, Right Way fabricated and installed this great custom sign.

We fabricated this double sided custom sign cabinet with custom neon and routed sign faces for push through acrylic copy, backed with LED or Cruz Blanca Brewery & Taquería in the Fulton Market. Sign design by Carrmichael Design.

Windy City Crossfit in Ravenswood needed some new signage to represent their new logo designed by the talented fold at Knoed. Right Way painted their logo on their exterior garage door and in their interior entrance way on corrugated aluminum. Photo credits by Knoed.

Sign painting project we did for the Maillard Tavern in River West. Hand painted logos in two spots on brick.

Custom 5411 sign painting project in Bucktown / Wicker Park.

Custom marquee bulb sign made, installed and permitted for Bareburger in Lakeview.

Custom blade sign for Uprising Pizza in Lincoln Park. Cut on our CNC machine, the sign features raised lettering with beveled edges, with hand gilded 22k gold leaf.

Custom ice cream trike wrap. Printed and installed by Right Way Signs of Chicago.

Custom mural painted for the revamped Goose Island Beer Pub on Clybourn.

The Barn in Evanston was in need of some unique signs for their new space in a historic building in Evanston. Right Way Signs was brought in to add personal touch, sign painting 3 different signs to have a distressed look on brick like the signs had been painted 50 years ago.

Custom distressed electric arrow sign for Cafe 1910 in Ravenswood. Hand painted and rusted effect applied to this marquee light style sign.

This sign was fabricated for the City Hyde Park development in Chicago. Very custom sign made of front and rear LED illumiated letters with a custom light sign cabinet made of many different pieces for different depths.

Custom painted sign on a garage door at the Buckledown Brewing facility.

Custom menu system we designed, fabricated, printed and installed for Farmers Fridge at Revival Hall.

Custom brass LED illuminated electric blade sign for Boulevard Veterinary in Logan Square.

Custom hand painted logo for our friends at Flowers For Dreams. Hand painted about 40′ in the air, this project replaces a smaller brick vinyl logo and the result is a logo that gets attention.

Custom hand gilded gold leaf lettering we did for Gymnasium Personal Training in Bucktown. This 22k gold took 3 days of careful gilding and the result was a mirror like finish.

Custom channel letters we fabricated and installed for Fairways in Lincoln Park. These custom brushed black alumium letters featured a warm LED glow for an elegant look.

Custom hand painted logo we did for Napa Auto Part in Glenview, IL. Logo measured approximately 60’x60′. Right Way Signs of Chicago specializes in hand painted roof logos in Chicago, the Chicagoland area and paints roof logos all over the country. We offer the best service, final product and warranty when it comes to roof logos. Contact us today for more information or a quote.

Metric Coffee reached out to us about  a sign painting project for their shop/facility right off Damen on Fulton. We had the honor doing two sign painting projects and then working on a very custom LED light box sign with the simple message “COFFEE” on both sides. TO give it a personal touch, we routed the face of their sign with their company name. This project contained two sign painting projects, one on glass and the other on brick and an LED sign cabinet with lettering on three sides.

Custom sign painting project on tile for Big City Chicken at Navy Pier in Chicago.

Custom hand painted mural on our building to showcase some of the work we can do for clients on the exterior of their building.

The Craftsman by Two Brothers brewing had us out to their location in Naperville to add some sign painting to the building and to the windows.

Custom neon sign fabricated and installed for The Madison Bar + Kitchen in the West Loop.

Custom gold leaf window sign we made to show clients the quality of our gold leaf work.

Custom hand painted and hand gilded gold leaf lettering for a local Chicago Starbucks Coffee shop.

Custom window gold leaf signage, gilded by hand in 22k gold leaf.

Custom hand painted wall at The Palace Grill in the West Loop of Chicago, painted during the 2015 Stanley Cup run and Championship. Lead sign painted and hockey fan Ches Perry did this for fun (not a paid project) to be a part of the excitement and leave his mark on Chicago.

Custom exterior neon sign for Half Sour in the South Loop.

Hannah’s Bretzel has been a client of Right Way Signs of Chicago for many years. There location at 180 W. Washington was recently renovated and Right Way completed a large sign interior sign package that included sign painting, vinyl signs, wood signs, custom menus, and large format printing.

Right Way Signs of Chicago fabricated and installed this custom laser cut brushed brass logo for the Bucktown restaurant Dixie. It was installed using a pin-mounted hardware.

Custom hand gilded gold leaf logo and lettering for Heritage Bikes in Lakeview.

Custom fabricated Hall fo Fame sign, custom ivy social wall and custom light-box sign with tube neon channel lettering.

Braintree’s Chicago office at the Merchandise Mart is a massive space with a lot of great opportunities for signage, sign painting and murals. Right Way Signs of Chicago had the pleasure of working with Braintree on custom hand painted signs, painted murals, vinyl graphics and large format prints.

Reverb.com, located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, is the online marketplace for musicians to buy, sell and learn about new, used, vintage and handmade music gear. Reverb reached out to Right Way Signs of Chicago to help bring their amazing designs to life throughout their space on Lincoln Ave. Right Way printed custom interior wall wraps, custom vinyl window graphics, and custom conference room decals. Reverb’s office was featured as one of Crain’s Chicago Business 2017 Coolest Offices, with Right Way’s custom vinyl work being featured in a few of the published photos.

A sign painting project we did for Ashland Addison Florists location in the West Fulton Market in Chicago, Illinois. Our lead sign painter Ches Perry painted the company name directly onto their brick façade.

Ella Elli is a project in which we fabricated halo lit, pin mounted lettering and installed them on a metal awning outside their restaurant located just off of Southport.

Custom hand painted signs and murals we did for Cantina 1910 in Andersonville. This was a massive space with lots of great opportunities to paint murals and signs throughout the space.

This sign painting project was for Junior Warrior Ninja’s in Chicago, painted by lead sign painter Ches Perry.

Connecting with the very talented design firm Bark Design in Chicago, we had the honor of fabricating and installing this multi-faceted sign project at the After School Matters, a program designed by the late Maggie Daley, wife of former Mayo Richard J. Daley, in 1991 to develop cultural activities for the city’s teenagers. The new signage was for the Michael and Kayrn Lutz Center, a state-of-the-art center that focuses on tech, dance, art and more. The majority of the project was a creative and colorful approach to ADA compliant signage with braille. The materials used was anon glare acrylic with polished edges, raised copy and braille and various colors to identify floors and rooms.

Clever Rabbit in Wicker park reached out to Right Way Signs of Chicago to explore various sign options for their exterior. The new signage they selected was a double sided illuminated blade sign with their rabbit icon. The second sign type they selected was non-illuminated pin mounted lettering that read “clever rabbit” in white 1/4″ aluminum installed n their black wood panel facade. Right Way Signs was handled the entire project from fabrication, permitting to the installation of this project.

Lansing Brewing Company in Lansing, Michigan contacted after seeing the sign painting and sign work we did locally for Goose Island Brewing Co.

Wanting to re-store the character of a 100 year old brewery, Right Way Signs of Chicago was hired to paint logos and artwork on the exterior and interior of the building. We also helped create the exterior sign work of the building, custom wood signs, digitally printed acrylic biography signs, and a marquee light bulb sign for the retail corner of the brewery.

Lansing Brewing Co. won a handful of 2016 ADDY awards for the brand design, including Silver for Brand Integration.

Radio Flyer is an iconic American company that started in Chicago in 1917 and 100 years later, we had the honor and privilege of hand lettering one of their old fashioned vehicles last month. Our goal was to take their design and help make it as authentic as possible, giving it a human touch from a sign painter just like you would have seen if you were alive to see the real thing back in the early 1900s. Ches Perry, Right Way’s lead sign painter, took two days to work on this project.

Heritage Bicycles, located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago specializes in custom handmade bicycles all within a coffee shop. Their brand is unique and everything about their retail store has an old fashioned, handmade look and feel. Right Way Signs was brought in to help with the design and painting of a custom piece for their exterior wall in addition to a few windows with custom gold leaf lettering and a blade sign.

The Flower Firm located west of the Fulton Market District in Chicago approached us to sign paint their logo on their building and give it a distressed look to give the impression they had been in that building for 40 plus years, when in fact they had recently moved in.

We have painted some big signs throughout our 47 years of sign painting and and sign making, but the Duke Realty logo project is our largest to date. This logo, measuring at 190,000 sq/ft was painted by our own Ches Perry over the course of 4 weeks. Located in Atlanta, GA, this project is aimed at grabbing the attention of flights coming into the airport. The impressive thing about this project is that Ches mapped this all out by hand before painting it, no stencils were used.

We hand painted this custom logo at the Merchandise Mart showroom for Watson. The surface to be painted was a rough brick, so it was fitting to do a distressed painting to resemble a weathered / ghost sign that looked like it was painted by a sign painter decades decades ago.

Custom signs fabricated, installed and permitted for Chicago based Hopewell Brewing Company in Logan Square.

Coco Champagne Lounge in the River North neighborhood in Chicago was looking for a high end sign that would get attention an tie in with the look and feel of their brand and space. Right Way Signs was hired to sandblast a 4’x16′ custom cedar wood sign with dimensional lettering with real silver leaf and 23k gold leaf, which was hand gilded.

The Jefferson Tap project was one of our favorites in 2014. For this project located right outside of the downtown Chicago area, we prepped and painted the entire facade of the building first. From there we  painted their new logo and artwork in which Right Way Signs designed. In the end we gave this great building and establishment a lot more character with a sign painters touch.

Bom Bolla, located in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago was a fun project because it included a multiple sign types along side some great illustrations by design agency TrueStory. We started with exterior, hand painting their logo on the facade. On the windows we used vinyl graphics for the logo in each window. For the interior we did hand painted murals of Debbie Harry wearing a Popeye t-shirt and Mick Jones of The Clash on tile in the front and rear of the restaurant. We also did two exterior LED light box signs and etched window vinyl graphics.

We were hired to paint this massive logo for Big Blue Swim School on their wall in Buffalo Grove, IL.  This hand painted logo was painted by Right Way sign painter Ches Perry, who has 48 years of sign painting experience.

Looking for ways to promote their new dental practice, Sweet Tooth Dental reached out to us to help design, fabricate, install and permit their new signage. The project consisted of an internally illuminated LED blade sign (projecting) and a 3D logo sign for the interior reception area that won first place from the Illinois Sign Association in the Illuminated & Non-Illuminated Letters category. The interior sign consisted of 4 different types of laser cut metals to bring a unique sign to their space.

We had the absolute privilege of working with creative and design team at Ogilvy Chicago to help with the design and fabrication of a new sign for Ernst Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, IL. As a result, we got to fabricate a really cool sign made from High Density Urethane on our CNC machine with the main copy have beveled edges, recessed sub copy in an off white sign paint and hand gold leaf applied to the main copy. We re-located the sign on the property so it would get more attention and help drive more visitors through their door to visit this historic house.

Fairgrounds Coffee is a new coffee experience that celebrates choice, offering a selection of the best coffee roasters nationwide in one coffee shop. For this project we were commissioned to create custom wood menus with engraved lettering, 3D lettering and vinyl copy for an easy way to change the content and pricing of the menu. We used premium woods and stains to bring the menus together for both of their Chicago locations. Learn more about Fairgrounds at  https://fairgrounds.cafe/

Honey Butter Fried Chicken contacted us to had paint their logo on the exterior of their building along with a few other illustrations. Another part of the project was digitally printed graphics for an existing light box sign that projected over the sidewalk.

Eisenmann Engineering in Crystal Lake, IL contacted us to help them with a new sign for their reception area. Wanting something a little different, we suggested an LED Edge Lit logo sign, individual letters flush mounted to the wall for a clean and unique look. Along with this, we produced vinyl graphics to add more character to their office when employees and clients arrive.