The Advertising Production Association of Los Angeles represents a highly diversified group within the graphics communications field. There are many marketing vehicles taking on many different forms and purposes. Print includes flyers, mailings, posters, newspapers, magazines, direct mail, variable data digital printing and anything else that involves paper. Electronic includes, radio, television, movies (with product placement) and now the Internet.
Outdoor advertising includes billboards, outdoor signage, bumper stickers, blimps, signs towed by airplanes, trailers, wrapped cars and trucks, bus advertising, bus bench advertising and buildings of all sizes.
Specialty advertising is even more diverse, including matchbooks, keychains, paperweights, coasters, bookmarks, tie tacks, pins, lighters, cigars, and point-of-sale displays… ANYTHING you can put a logo or message on, including clothing.
The APALA has created these pages as a “go-to” resource area to keep you updated with the graphics communication industry as a whole, and then to assist you in your search for the right supplier to fit a whole variety of projects. The two sections you will find here are – Industry Resources and the Vendor Yellow Pages.
Industry Resources is a list of publications, associations and websites that will give you access to current information on a variety of graphic related subjects.
The Vendor Yellow Pages is a complete list of our vendor member’s services and capabilities in an easy to use cross-reference system. Check it out.
“…Good times, bad times, there will always be advertising. In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.”
—Bruce Fairchild Barton, founder of BBDO