Scott Gardner, owner of Gardner Signs, show a sign he’s almost completed for Biggby Coffee.

Gardner knows all the trade secrets when it comes to designing a good sign. The Birmingham resident runs a family business that started more than 60 years ago with his grandfather in Toledo. The company manufactures signs for Biggby Coffee, Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI, Huntington Bank and other major corporations. Read more by Jay Grossman, Staff Writer from Birmingham Eccentric