When Stephen Colbert took over the helm of The Late Show from David Letterman this past fall, he needed signage as star-studded as his line-up of guests. Enter Going Sign & Servicing Company, Inc. of Plainview, New York.
当斯蒂芬·科尔伯特在上个秋天从大卫·莱特曼手中接管了晚间脱口秀节目The Late Show之后，他急需很多标识。此时，他想起了纽约市普莱恩维尤的Going Sign标识服务有限公司。
Going Sign was started in 1903 in Brooklyn by Vice President Kevin Going’s grandfather. In its one hundred-plus-year history, the sign company has gone from specializing in painted letters on horsedrawn carriages to a fullservice shop with the latest equipment and machinery to handle all
types of signs.
Going Sign于1903年在布鲁克林由副总裁Kevin Going的爷爷建立。在它一百多年的历史中，这个标识服务公司从一个专业为马车车厢喷绘广告的小公司发展到一个设备齐全能提供各种各样的标识服务的大公司。
The sign shop has a continuous relationship with CBS (which airs The Late Show), and the shop fabricated the original marquee for Letterman back in 1993. They’ve maintained the marquee since then (even dismantling it after Letterman’s retirement in May), in addition to doing other sign work for CBS. So the sign company was the natural choice for the new Colbert signage, which includes an all-new marquee and a double-sided upright sign mounted to a building façade.
这家标识公司与哥伦比亚广播公司是长期的合作关系，他还是The Late Show的第一个华盖的安装者，从1993年的安装之日起，这个华盖一直用到现在。今年五月份，David Letterman卸任之后，这个华盖也被拆掉了。还为CBS做过很多其他的标识。所以，Going Sign公司是Colbert的最佳选择。这个工程包括一个全新的华盖和一个双面的竖直的挂在建筑上的标识。
Going Sign sat down with everyone involved on the project-CBS, the architect, the engineer, the
general contractor, and Colbert’s show staff-and discussed the designs. “We added our thoughts and input on how to make things a little bit easier, how to do it the right way,” says Going.
Going Sign公司不得不忍受所有与这个项目有关系的人的指点，CBS,建筑师，建筑公司，以及Colbert’s show的全体员工，这些人与其说是在建议，不如说是在捣乱。Going 说：“我们只能按照我们的想法，告诉他们这是最简单正确的方式。”
With the design set, Going Sign had a very tight deadline of eight weeks to complete a project-that would normally take ten to twelve. The sign company got all hands on deck and went to work.
确定了设计之后，Going Sign的交货期非常紧张，通常情况下都是10到12周，客户要求在8周内完成。Going Sign不得不启动他们所有的劳动力。
First Guest: Upright Sign
第一部分：竖直的标识
The double-sided, upright sign includes seven panels, each with a channel letter that spells out
the name “Colbert.”Four pieces of 1-12-inch-by-1-12-inch-inch-by-316 inch-thick aluminum mounting angle
are attached to the steel—two pieces on each side—with non-corrosive A325 mounting bolts. An 18-inch polycarbonate spacer was used between the angle and the steel to prevent dissimilar metal corrosion. On one side, they were mounted using #8 countersunk screws every twelve inches on center; on the other side, the aluminum faces were welded to the Sign Comp extrusions. One side was screwed in rather than welded, to allow for access in the future.
这个竖直的两面标识包括七个面板，每个面板上都有用发光字拼写出Colbert的名字。四块1.12英寸×1.12英寸×316英寸厚的铝片安装在不锈钢A325固定螺旋两侧的拐角处。一个18英寸的聚碳酸酯板材（即PC板）放在不同金属之间以防止异种金属之间发生腐蚀反应。一边，他们在标识中间使用#8号埋头螺钉每12英寸钉一个；另一边，将铝片焊接到标识的边框上。其中要保留一边是拧上去的，而不是焊接上的，以便于拆卸。
The letters were made from .063 aluminum returns finished with white Matthews Paint and bent in-house using the shop’s hand finger brakes. The returns were mounted to the aluminum faces with 1/4-inch inch dia-meter noncorrosive mounting bolts.A.080 aluminum white sign face is attached via an aluminum mounting clip riveted to the tone coat return with a 1/4-inch countersunk screw in white.
标识上的字母是由.063号铝和白色Matthews油漆在店内使用我们的工具自制而成。这样做的好处是可以用直径为1/4英寸的不锈装配螺栓。一个.080的白色铝面作为标识的正面，通过装配夹用一个1/4英寸长的埋头螺丝铆接到标识结构上。
Attached to the sign face are SATCO porcelain lampholders #80/1097 with Bitro LED bulbs used to illuminate the sign. All holes for sockets for the LED bulbs were created using Sign Wizard software from Aries Graphics International. (Note: These Bitro LED bulbs served as an alternative to using traditional incandescent bulbs.) The letters are all 7 feet, 6 inches tall and range in width from 2 feet, 2-3/4 inches to 3 feet, 31/2 inches. To attach this upright sign to the
building, Going Sign attached the steel C-channels to two existing steel stubs.
我们在这个标识的表面安装了精美的LED灯，用来在夜间照亮标识。每个用来安装LED灯的座位都是从一家国际性设计公司开发的软件创建的。（这些LED灯是传统白炽灯的替代物。）这些字母都是7英尺长，6英寸高，宽则从2英尺到3英尺之间不等。为了将竖直的标识安装到墙上去，Going Sign将字母C分割成两个钢管来构成。
All installation for the upright sign and the new marquee had to be done on off hours, and it
took about two days to install the upright sign. Going Sign used its 85-foot Elliott Equipment
truck, 110-foot Sky lift Boom, and various other bucket trucks and pickup trucks to complete the installation work.
由于工程项目的时间紧迫，我们不得不在夜以继日的工作着，我们才用两天时间就安装完了那个竖着的标识。Going Sign为了尽快完成项目，启用了他们85英尺的设备装载卡车，110英尺高的起重车以及各种各样的铲车和轻型货车。
Second Guest: Marquee
第二部分：华盖
The new marquee on the Ed Sullivan Theater required three new sign cabinets.The cabinets were fabricated with a combination of aluminum tubing and angle attached to a SignComp series 4 framelessbody #1355 finished in textured white with Matthews Paint. The aluminum angle was attached with mounting clips and #8 countersunk screws. Going Sign used #8 pan head screws to connect whole sections of aluminum together.
Ed Sullivan的新华盖需要三个新的标识灯箱。这些灯箱都是由SignComp公司提供的来铝材组合而成，SignComp是一家国际性的铝材制造公司，专为标识行业提供挤压铝框架解决方案。铝制边框角用埋头螺丝安装在装配夹上。Going Sign公司使用8号大头螺钉将不同部位的铝材组装起来。
The aluminum tubes were attached with 1/4-inch-diameter, non-corrosive, self-tapping screws.The two sign faces on the side cabinets are rectangles, while the main cabinet face has a curveat the top. This was framed with custom-curved aluminum tubing. The sign faces are made of 1/8-inch-thick aluminum finished in PMS 286c blue paint from Matthews Paint. A Cybermation router was usedto stencil-cut the faces for the acrylic push-thru letters.
铝管用直径为1/4英寸的不锈的螺丝钉固定的。标识灯箱的两面是长方形的，而灯箱的正面顶端是弯曲的。标识表面是由1/8英寸厚的铝片用Matthews的286c蓝色油漆加工而成。对于“Late Show”这几个字母，Going Sign公司用切割机对着字的模板切割出字的形状，然后，用1英寸厚的亚克力板安装到铝板上。
The letters spelling out “Stephen Colbert” featured on the two side cabinets are made of one-inchthick clear acrylic with 3M Scotchcal Translucent Graphic Film. The words “this” and “with”are made of 1/4-inch-thick clear acrylic flush graphics with 3M Scotchcal Translucent Graphic Film 3630-20 White on the first surface and 3M Diffuser Film 3635-70 White on the second surface.
标识灯箱两边的字母拼写出“Stephen Colbert”的字样，它们是由1 英寸厚的亚克力板和3M的图画贴膜组成的。单词“this"
和“with”是由1/4英寸厚的透明亚克力板和3M的图画贴膜组成。这些字母的第一层贴膜是3630-20白色贴膜，第二层是3635-70白色散光膜。
One of the interesting parts of the sign faces is that Going Sign drilled different-sized holes into the aluminum faces on all three sides in the star pattern that would appear in the sky ifyou were standing at the theater on September 8, 2015 at 11:35the date and time of the premiereof The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
这个标识正面最有趣的地方是Going Sign公司在这三个不同的面上挖了几个大小不一的洞代表天上的星座，它寓意着，如果你在2015年9月8号23点35分出现在Stephen Colbert的《深夜脱口秀》的首映场上，今夜便会星光灿烂。
Above the sign faces on the sides of the marquee is the word “CBS” and the CBS logo. Above the main marquee are the words “Ed Sullivan Theater” and the CBS logos. All of these elementswere made of one-inch-thick clear acrylic pushthrough graphics with 3M Scotchcal Translucent Graphic
Film 3630-22 Black Opaque on the first surface. They were backlit with LEDs.
在华盖的标识上面是字母“CBS”和CBS的logo。在华盖的主体上方是“Ed Sullivan Theater”（埃德·沙利文剧院）和CBS的logo。所有的这些元素都是由1英寸厚的透明亚克力板和3M图形贴膜组合而成，第一层是3630-22黑色不透明的覆膜，所以，安装上LED灯后，它们是背部发光的标识。
On either side of each sign face are decorative fiberglass columns. Going Sign had them custom made in Florida to mimic the columns inside the theater. These columns are up lit with white Bitro LEDs. To finish off the marquee, flashing bulbs run along the bottom of each side in one row and along the top of each side in two rows. Going Sign used Bitro A19 LED bulbs with a Bitro Alpha Slimline power supply #ASU10024u. The bulbs were fastened into Leviton ceramic lampholders#0985 with a decorative .040 aluminum flower roset surrounding the bulbs.
在标识的每个表面都装有玻璃纤维列。Going Sign公司给其他弗罗里达的客户模仿剧院里的这个装饰，但它们用的都是白色的LED灯。为了使华盖更完美，闪光灯条从华盖的上方延伸下来，每边有两条。Going Sign公司用的是A19 LED灯和α细线电缆以及ASU-100-24u电源。灯泡固定在陶瓷的#0985灯座上。
On the marquee installation, Going Sign bolted the cabinets to the steel on the marquee’s roof using A325 mounting bolts. A 1/4inchthick Lexan spacer was used to prevent dissimilar metal corrosion. Installation on the marquee took longer than the upright sign, and Going Sign was onsite for a few weeks. (Note: The shop also did work on the ceiling of the marquee.) The final result is some star-studded signage that’s helping to usher in the next era of late night!
在华盖的安装过程中，Going Sign公司用A325号螺旋钉将标识安装在华盖的顶部，一个1/4英寸厚的垫片放在金属之间以免他们互相腐蚀，影响华盖的使用寿命。华盖的安装比竖立的标识多花了很多时间，Going Sign公司的人员和设备在现场操作了好几个星期（标识公司同时也在安装华盖的天花板）。最终的结果是，星罗棋布的标识宣告了另一个深夜脱口秀时代的到来！
