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, […]

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 […]

We’ve Unleashed a Monster

Patience isn’t our strong suit at ER2: we are always looking for ways to grow our business and add capabilities for our clients. So when we decided we needed to add the biggest and best in fabric printing technology to our lineup, well, we weren’t going to wait around for Santa to deliver it. In […]

Meet the Team: Ronnie Pixley

Name: Ronnie Pixley Job Title: Installation Team Leader Direct Line: 630-432-1128 Email: [email protected] Ronnie is a great fit for our installation team, as he loves doing anything hands-on! As no day or project is ever the same here at ER2, Ronnie has mastered the ability to “think on his feet” while providing quality work on […]

Black | White | Bold: Printing for renowned artist David Best

To bring his latest project to life in Chicago, artist David Best needed the collaboration of someone who could share his grand vision. Best partnered with ER2 to turn his art files into 35,000 square feet of black and white collage material. Understanding and interpreting what Best was going for was vital on a project […]

Meet the Team: Peter Bussert

Name: Peter Bussert Job Title: Installation Team Leader Education: BA in General Art Studies NIU Graduation 2006 Direct Line: 815-757-6808 Email: [email protected] Peter has always been drawn to fast-paced, collaborative work. Through college he worked in restaurants and eventually started a career in that area, working as a line cook. Eventually, through a connection, he […]