Case Study: Vinyl Creations achieves rapid, professional sign production with CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW allows a non-designer to create professional signs

Vinyl Creations is a three-person sign-making shop in Port Orange, Florida, founded and run by Richard Parrish, who had no formal design training. The company needed to produce professional-looking vinyl signs, banners and decals quickly—often on tight, last-minute timelines—and relies on CorelDRAW Graphics Suite (CorelDRAW) together with the Smart Designer add-on to bridge the skills gap and meet client demands.

CorelDRAW provided vector tools (including CorelTRACE) and direct export to plotters that let Vinyl Creations convert low‑quality art into scalable logos, tweak designs rapidly, and push files straight to production. Using CorelDRAW and Smart Designer the shop cut art production time dramatically (studies cite 50–90% reductions), handled rush NASCAR and event orders reliably, and delivered professional results with a much smaller team.

Vinyl Creations

Richard Parrish

Owner