Specialties
Logo Design
Interior Signs
Exterior Signs
Wall Graphics
Vehicle Graphics
Vinyl Banners
Real Estate Signs
Yard Signs
Receptionist Signs
Vehicle Lettering
Gold Leaf
Full Service Sign Making Facility
History
Established in 1969.
The Preston Sign Company -
Preston Signs main production facility is a 4000 sq ft. building on the mainstreet in a busy suburb, a few minutes from Washington, D.C. We have served the metro area in this building since 1980, having been located less than one block from here since the late sixties.
Preston signs always took pride in the fact that we manufacture everything that we sell. Custom sign/display fabrication has always been a specialty. "From concept to finished product" has been an on going tradition.
Each project is personally overseen by one of the owners, Jim Preston or Marshal McDade, from start to finish. This attention to detail has given us a reputation for quality and service that is unsurpassed in our market. possesing traditional "signpainter" skills, we are regularly called upon to restore lettering on an antique piano, or other musical instrument, repairing goldleaf on antiques, or perform a myriad of other jobs that other shops "can't do" .
Meet the Business Owner: Jim P.
Northern Virginia Signs The Preston Sign Company Jim Preston and Marshall McDade met while serving in the armed services in 1965 at the Engineering School at Ft. Belvior, VA. After military service, including a tour in Vietnam, they started what is now Preston Sign Company in 1968. Since it's inception (before the days of computer graphics), both Jim and Marshall studied and became masters of their trade - sign painting. The skills required to be a "sign painter" in those days were highly specialized, including training in many different trades. The old timers in the business held on to the "secrets" of the trade, only passing along advice to the most talented young upstarts. Both Preston and McDade, worked from apprentice through journeyman, and now with 40 years of graphics experience behind them, bring to the sign trade a huge storehouse of talent, skills and capabilities not found in other companies.
