Inside ER2: Getting to Know Donna Hatfield

As soon as you meet Donna Hatfield, you can feel the positive energy radiating off of her. Someone who lives by smiles and laughter, Donna has been sharing her joy with the ER2 team as an Office and Accounting Manager since 1998. Over the past 17 years, Donna has watched ER2 grow in more ways […]

ER2 in the City | Draft Town 2015

As Chicago geared up for the 2015 NFL Draft, so did ER2. Partnering with MDR Creative, ER2 had the opportunity to brand the NFL Shop and Draft with custom vinyl decals and fabric banners. Draft Town’s fan festival totaled 900,000 square feet, bringing in thousands of die-hard football fans. To attract attention, ER2 had to […]

A Slam Dunk for Special Spaces Chicagoland

Big or small, every project is important to the team at ER2, especially when it comes to helping those in need. We recently had the opportunity to partner with Special Spaces Chicagoland, a nonprofit organization that creates dream bedrooms for children with life-threatening illnesses, giving them a special space all their own. We were contacted […]

ER2 Voted Top Twenty by Wide-Format Imaging

Last year, ER2 was selected as a top twenty sign shop in the nation. And 2015 is no different. ER2 is thrilled to announce that we are #19 on Wide-Format Imaging’s Top Shops 2015 list! It’s an honor to be recognized as part of the top twenty among the thousands in the nation. But ER2 wouldn’t […]

20th Century Opera Meets 21st Century Printing

ER2 presents large-format printing in two acts thanks to our partnership with the Lyric Opera in Chicago. We collaborated with the Lyric in 2014 to create their Don Giovanni exhibit titled “Past to Present,” which celebrated their Diamond Anniversary season. Following the success of that project, the Technical Department of the Lyric came to ER2 […]

Fabric Architecture at the Auto Show:ESPN and ER2

This year’s Chicago Auto Show brought more than just new cars. Due to ESPN’s sponsorship from Mazda, ESPN was able to occupy space in their booth, broadcasting live and offering photo opportunities to attendees. ESPN wanted to set themselves apart from Mazda in their portion of the exhibit, and as long time customers of ER2, […]

Meet the Team: Gary Schellerer Sr.

Head of the family and head of the company, Gary R. Schellerer started ER2 in 1991 after stopping in a small vinyl shop off Michigan Avenue in Chicago. “I was extremely impressed with the concept and saw a great deal of opportunity in this type of operation,” he said. “It just seemed to fit the […]

ER2 Inside the Factory

What happens between when you place an order with ER2 and when we fulfill it? A whole lot. In this first person tour of our factory floor and offices, we’re showing you how it all comes together—from account managers to designers to printers to cutters. It’s a fast-paced workplace, but we wouldn’t have it any […]

Big Vocabulary, Big Project

Using big words has always been the key to Scrabble. At ER2 we just decided to take that literally. Working with Susan Blackman, President of Art Advisory, Ltd.,  ER2 was asked to create a 7′ x 53′ mega Scrabble board that would bring a little color —and competition—to an everyday office. “The client wanted the […]

Sort of Crazy, a Little Insane and Very Big: Building the CrowdRise Giving Tower

Charity fundraising site CrowdRise had a “sort of crazy, a little insane and very big” idea: create a virtual tower that would grow as donations came in for their Giving Tuesday campaign on December 2nd. They built an app that would augment reality through viewers’ phones of a hologram tower rising higher and higher as […]