
Acorn in Action: The District
The District is a new section of the Briar Chapel community that will feature apartments, restaurants, a grocery store, senior living, medical facilities and more! Briar Chapel by Brookfield Properties is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and has been voted the...

Employee Spotlight November 2021 – Craig Plattner
Each month here at Acorn, we feature one of our team members on our blog! Our November 2021 Employee Spotlight is Craig Plattner! Craig is an Estimator and has been with the Acorn team for about 3 and a half years. He started with us in April 2018, and we love having...

Employee Spotlight October 2021 – Drew Cecil
Every month, we feature one of our Acorn team members on our blog! Our October 2021 Employee Spotlight is Drew Cecil! Drew is one of our Installers, and he’s been with Acorn for three and a half years. When we asked him what his favorite part of his job is, he said...

Acorn in Action: Treelight Square
Treelight Square is a new section of retail shops, commercial spaces and apartments within the Wendell Falls community in Raleigh, NC. Wendell Falls is a masterfully planned community with residential homes, countless amenities, schools, parks, commercial spaces and...

Employee Spotlight September 2021 – Shelby Groome
Each month here at Acorn, we feature one of our team members on our blog! Our September 2021 Employee Spotlight is Shelby Groome! Shelby is our Lead Painter, and she’s with our team for a year. Even though she’s only been with us for a year, she’s been painting...

Accessible Signage in Educational Facilities
Educational and academic facilities require their built environments to accommodate individuals of all ability levels. Not only do the physical spaces need to be accessible, the signage and wayfinding systems need to be designed to help anyone who is in the space. Our...

Employee Spotlight August 2021 – Michael Buck
Every month on our blog, we feature one of our team members through an Employee Spotlight! August 2021’s Employee Spotlight is Michael (Mike) Buck. Mike has been with Acorn for 34 YEARS - in fact, he was here before we even became Acorn!! Prior to becoming Acorn Sign...

A Look Inside Acorn’s Project Management Department
As a human-centered company, our team at Acorn is passionate about our clients’ experiences through every stage of signage manufacturing. We talked with Acorn’s VP of Project Delivery, Michelle Evans, to highlight our unique process of how we partner with our clients...

Employee Spotlight July 2021 – Melissa Harl
Each month here at Acorn, we feature one of our team members on our blog! Our July 2021 Employee Spotlight is Melissa Harl. Melissa is a Technical Designer in our Richmond office, and at the end of August, she’ll be celebrating 23 years of working at Acorn! Since...

Behind the Scenes of our Manufacturing Process
One of our goals here at Acorn is to educate our clients and industries related to signage about our work and processes. We talked with our VP of Production, Jim Gray, for an in-depth overview of our manufacturing process so we can share what goes into fabricating...