User:Gsharpx/The Big Picture magazine

The Big Picture magazine is a U.S-based business-to-business publication that serves the wide-format digital marketplace. Its readers comprise owners, CEOs, and managers of digital print shops across the United States (plus Canada and  international), as well as executives in sign shops, screen printing operations, commercial print plants, and other businesses interested in the business of wide-format digital graphics. The publication is part of ST Media Group International, Cincinnati, OH, which publishes several other publications in the graphics market and other fields.

Topics covered The Big Picture covers the production of wide-format graphics and also provides it readers with information on advancing their business. In 2010, a sampling of its topics included:

History of the magazine  History of the magazine, 1995-2003 Signs of the Times, ST Media Group's flagship publication initially covered wide-format digital printing when this technology came to the fore in the early 1990s, in addition to its traditional core of sign topics (electric, neon, commercial, hand-carved, etc.). But as digital printing technologies continued to be capable of taking on more and different tasks, and print shops found more and varied uses for digital printing, the company found a ready audience for a publication devoted entirely to the subject matter. As a result, the first issue of The Big Picture was launched in 1995, as a supplement to Signs of the Times.

History of the magazine, 2003-2009

History of the magazine, 2009-Present In the summer of 2008, Sharpless and Duccilli decided that the magazine needed a revitalization. Its structure and design had remained basically the same since 1995.