Although these lanterns are small they require a surprising amount of work to make. A more complex one could have laser cut parts, welded parts, custom cut and formed metal parts, wooden parts, machining of plastic parts, painting, laser cut parts and soldering of wires to make them light up.
This is the the more common "flag" style lantern that has a plastic piece with the elevators letter/number on it. I have done painted letters, metal or plastic inlayed letters, and vinyl decals.
The plastic protrudes from a mounting plate that usually contains LED light strips that light up to indicate when the elevator has arrived at your floor.
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Here is one of the flag style lanterns and a picture of it actually installed at the building. (I don't normally get to see it in its finale home, so that's cool)
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These are some flat panel lights that also are made with or without lighting depending on the needs of the customer
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This is another flag style lantern but much bigger. It covers up the entire wall above the elevator doors and I engraved the buildings logo onto the stainless steel plate.
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I made nearly 200 of these bronze lanterns with a custom paint filled engraving on the plastic. Most buildings only get a round 10 lanterns for the whole building but when doing a high-rise is S.F. it gets kind of crazy.
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"Static" signs are some of the easier ones to do because they don't involve any electronics or lighting. The ones above still have some unique design choices with shape and material but they can be as simple of putting a vinyl decal on a flat piece of metal.
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