{"id":13840,"date":"2015-11-16T13:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T18:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/?p=13840"},"modified":"2015-11-16T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T21:50:25","slug":"bus-sign-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/2015\/11\/16\/bus-sign-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"BU\u2019s Sign Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>For more than a decade, Wendy Haig-Ramage has been helping us find our way<\/h3>\n<div class=\"full-width full-width-video \">\n<div class=\"buvideoWrapper buniverse-2013\">\n<div class=\"buvideoWrapperInner\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=V6kMj1fI&amp;?loc=3&amp;autoplay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;showinfo=1\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">In the video above, Wendy Haig-Ramage talks about her work as the director of BU\u2019s sign shop.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"post-date\">11.16.2015<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"byline\">Video by Bill Politis. Photo by Dana J. Quigley<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You may not know her face or name, but you\u2019ve seen her work. It\u2019s all over campus.<\/p>\n<p>Since she arrived at BU in 2003, Wendy Haig-Ramage has been plying her craft as director of BU\u2019s sign shop. Working out of a small space in the back corner of the sprawling BU Facilities Management &amp; Planning facility on Ashford Street, she turns out signs, maps, and directories.<\/p>\n<p>Haig-Ramage cannot recall a time when she wasn\u2019t drawing or creating art. After graduating from college in Arizona, she moved to Boston and opened her own sign shop in 1983. Her company\u2014staffed almost entirely by women\u2014made signs for buildings all over the city and surrounding towns.<\/p>\n<p>When Haig-Ramage started at BU, she was the only tradeswoman employed at the University. By her own reckoning, she\u2019s made thousands of signs over the past 12 years. And while they may not be high art, they are indispensable. Students have her to thank for all those signs announcing the names of buildings, the room numbers outside of classrooms, where to find a wheelchair ramp or a bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>She says she loves being known as BU\u2019s sign lady. \u201cIt\u2019s a very creative job and offers a lot of variety,\u201d she says. Best of all, she knows that her work helps the University run a little smoother. As she points out, \u201cEveryone needs to know where to go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Bill Politis can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:bpolitis@bu.edu\">bpolitis@bu.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This story originally appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2015\/wendy-haig-ramage-bu-sign-shop\/\">BU Today <\/a>on 11\/16\/15.<em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a decade, Wendy Haig-Ramage has been helping us find our way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4064,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[736],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4064"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions\/13848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cpo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}