08 Nov 2010
Tom Graboski's firm, TGA Design, is responsible for 40,000 of the new signs found all over Royal Caribbean's latest ship, Allure of the Seas. Graboski, working from his Coral Gables, Florida office, is no newcomer to cruise ship work. His firm has worked on 60 ships over the past 30 years and Allure of the Seas is the latest in a long line of work.
Materials for signs can include marble, granite, stainless steel and glass, but the biggest challenge for creating the signs is ensuring they can endure a good cleaning from the ships' cleaners, "Sometimes they do it so well that I have had them literally polish chrome off a chrome-plated sign".
