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Article: Tall order for local sign maker: shop got four days to dress Staples Center for NBA Finals.(UP FRONT)(National Basketball Association)(MBE Digital)(Brief article)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- June 15, 2009
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This month one of the biggest signs in Los Angeles doesn't say "Hollywood" on it.
That's because the Staples Center has a ginormous (152 foot wide by 72 foot tall) Los Angeles Lakers banner plastered across its facade in celebration of the team's ascent to the Finals.
But more interesting in these days of ubiquitous supergraphic billboards: the company that did the work, MBE Digital, an El Monte digital print shop owned by Brian Rayner, had just four days to do its biggest job ever.
"He does incredible work," said Cara Vanderhook, a spokeswoman for Staples Center owner AEG.
Rayner and his crew of 40 employees at one stretch spent 36 ...