The gestation period was elephantine – over 2 years. Labor was difficult with a couple of false labors and then a very long, drawn-out actual labor. But finally, my baby is here. I am now the proud father of a brand-new, healthy Portable Lighted Sign Frame… and a gaggle of sign frame accessories and even more decorative dry erase signs intended to go in it. My name is Jon Vandergriff and I am the inventor of glovals, a portable lighted signage system for work, home and play.
“What the heck are glovals?” you’re probably asking. For starters, it’s pronounced “glow-vuls,” as in an oval that glows. As you can see in the picture above, the sign frame has an oval shape and, well, when it gets dark out, it glows. On a related subject, if you check out my web site (www.glovals.com), you’ll see a little animated critter some have mistakenly identified as a beaver or groundhog. But that’s a glopher, as in a gopher that glows. Get it? If you ever have the privilege of meeting my glopher in person, and yes he/she?!! does exist, you’ll discover that the oval on his belly is an actual glovals sign frame that, well, glows. No telling what the sign inside it will say. My glopher changes his sign as often as he changes his/her mind. That’s because it’s easy. And kind of the whole point of the glovals signage system. Change your mind, change your sign. That’s one of my taglines, along with “glovals – they glow everywhere” and “Any sign. Anytime. Anywhere.” As you can see, I like coming up with taglines.
Where was I? Oh, yeah, “What’s a gloval?” The glovals system was designed to provide attractive and affordable, customizable and portable, lighted signage to small business owners and personal consumers whose off the rack sign options were heretofore limited to expensive neon or LED lightboxes, dusty “For Sale” signs in a back aisle of the hardware store or posterboard and some Magic Markers. And they all had their limitations. Either you couldn’t use the signs outside or you couldn’t change the message or you couldn’t use them again. Glovals can do all those things and a whole lot more. And do it again and again and again.
That’s because glovals were designed for Reusability. I used the capital “R” because I think this is maybe the most important aspect of the product line. Most temporary signage is used once and then thrown away. Glovals are designed to be re-used over and over, from year to year, from one event to another, in a limitless number of ways. In a window, on a boat, in your yard with a custom note. On the door of your little store, on a shelf or on the floor! Use it, use it and you will see, glovals glows even cordlessly!
Too much? Okay, I’ll stop there for now but obviously, I love my newborn. And I hope you will, too. Check it out at www.glovals.com. And let me know what you think. And if you can make your opinions rhyme, all the better.
