Project Development Team
Ike’s introduction to the sign business came in the early 1980’s when he began pinstriping and hand-lettering vintage hot rods as a hobby – hand crafting paper window signs, poster boards and show cards across Long Island and along the Jersey Shore. Having worked alongside some notable and legendary sign artists in the industry, Ike has harnessed what he learned and developed his own unparalleled style of design, layout, typesetting and color balance.
A graduate of Island Drafting and Technical Institute (Amityville, NY), Ike is currently our veteran computer graphic design artist here at North Shore with an extensive working knowledge of industry related design software and technology along with a formal background in architectural drafting and computer aided design. At North Shore Neon since 1990 (when we actually used pencils to draw), Ike’s primary responsibilities at North Shore range anywhere from the creation of conceptual design drawings, permit sketches, the production of full scale shop patterns for sign manufacturing to collecting field dimension data while performing on-site property and photographic site surveys. As a noteworthy point of interest, Ike is credited as having personally lettered each and every piece of equipment in North Shore’s large and growing, high profile fleet of service vehicles and cranes.
Married to his best friend for thirty plus years with three fantastic children, Ike spent many years coaching baseball and softball. He enjoys bicycling both on and off road, and is a current member of C.L.I.M.B. (Concerned Long Island Mountain Bikers). Ike is also a collector of vintage knives, guns and obsolete casino chips from around the world and a member of CC>CC (Casino Chip & Gaming Token Collectors Club).