The city’s council were forced to sell off the National Exhibition Centre along with the International Convention Centre (ICC), the Genting Arena, and the Barclaycard Arena, to pay off millions of pounds of unpaid wages to female workers.

The change will not affect this year’s Sign & Digital UK which is fast approaching and is seen by most in the industry as a chance to check out new kit, make contacts, network, as well as learn new techniques in the show’s various seminars and lecture theatres. This year Faversham House, the organisation behind the event is using the phrase ‘Creating Business Connections’ as its theme. As a result the schedules in the theatre areas of the show has a similar feel to them.

Rudi Blackett, event director of Sign and Digital UK says: “We are delighted to unveil the first wave of seminars in this year’s programme. Always a hugely popular show feature, these practical sessions are for anyone looking to keep their business up to speed with the latest advancements in creative design software.”

Seeing the return of the Corel and Adobe Theatres, in addition the SignLab Theatre will see CADLink guide visitors through the intricacies of print and cut, sign and display design, and production workflows in a series of seminars—while the ‘SignLab for Mimaki’ session will look at improving design and production workflows with Mimaki printers. Not to be missed is the ‘SignLab for Versaworks’ session that will focus on Roland users with tips on practical skills including contour cut-lines, working with VersaWorks colour palette and the Roland colour profiles and metallic and white ink sets.

These seminar sessions are free. It is all on a first-come, first-served basis with the event timetables on the Sign and Digital UK website.

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