Sustainable Signage

Sustainable Signage

Eco-Friendly Analog Displays for Brands

Oat Foundry’s Split Flap, Picture Flap, and Chroma Flap displays are modernized departure boards, similar to those found in European transit hubs. Our eco friendly signage is one-of-a-kind and built to order, perfect to keep your company on track to meet it’s sustainability goals. Serving as a low power display, sustainable art, and interactive technology, our sustainable text and image-based signs are ready to tell your unique brand story.

Why Brands Are Switching to Split Flap

Split Flap (and Picture Flap) are not only fun throwbacks to mid-century design, but also low power displays that save energy. These eco friendly signs allow brands to have the same impact in high traffic areas as with digital displays. The sustainable signage uses a fraction of the power it would take to display messages on a screen, and doesn’t run hot. Learn more about the benefits of custom sustainable signage below!

1. Engages with Movement & Sound

The sound and movement of a sustainable Split Flap disrupts people from their phone scrolling, cycling through to generate a captivating message. The opportunities for experiential engagement are also limitless, helping brands deliver messages in a sustainable way.

2. Customize To Your Space and Brand 

Our eco-friendly signs can also be customized to match your unique branding and style. Color-match the display frame, add symbols and company logos along with letters. With 100+ size options, brands can scale the displays to fit their unique space.

3. Cut Down on Disposable Digital 

Rather than investing in sustainable signs, many brands choose to cycle through screens and digital displays every few years. One of our Split Flaps or Picture Flaps, however, will last for a decade at least, ensuring that your brand won’t contribute to a seriously significant carbon footprint.

4. Reduce Visual Clutter & Screen Fatigue

Despite not being a digital screen, Split Flap and Picture Flap boards are great space savers. Rather than have numerous digital signs, virtual message boards, or menus on monitors, a sustainable Split Flap display can cycle through a range of messages or images.

Custom Split Flap Pricing

Pricing for our sustainable signs, Split Flaps, starts at about $15k in our Classic Black finish. The price scales up with the size of the display. The color selection also includes Modern White and Enterprise Custom Color, both of which will affect pricing, as well as any customizations to flaps (additional colors, symbols). To learn more, visit our pricing page.

Sustainable Signage Use Cases

Walker Center

20 Row x 24 Column Display in Classic Black with Custom Colors

In the heart of Salt Lake City, this sustainable signage is built as an interactive lobby centerpiece. The 20 x 24 Split Flap display complements the marble-clad lobby, designed in collaboration with Modern Outwest and Vectra Management. Visuals include weather, friendly announcements, and the time, as well as pixelated art generated through Oat Foundry’s Pixelator tool – free to use. More than merely décor, the board serves as sustainable art and an experiential display.

Buck & Rider

6 Row x 40 Column Display in Classic Black Casing

Buck & Rider uses their sustainable sign as an innovative menu board, reflecting the ingenuity of their business concept. The restaurant delivers a rare experience in the heart of the Arizona desert: fresh seafood delivered daily. At several of its locations, Buck & Rider uses custom sustainable displays to bolster their East Coast cannery-inspired restaurant design, blending industrial style with chic steakhouse decor. The custom eco-friendly signs showcase daily catches, specials, and the restaurant’s signature dishes, adding movement and texture to the diner’s experience without adding more screens.

Austin Visitor Center

6 Row x 32 Column Display with Custom Navy Cabinet

At the Austin Visitor Center, things may get weird, but the guest experience always takes center stage. Their sustainable Split Flap centers the space’s goal to balance retail, hospitality, and storytelling into an immersive environment. The flips of the sign share local events and iconic Austin sayings, building a tactile experience that supports curiosity and engagement. The modern design of the departure board allows the visitor center to turn a simple visit into a sustainable, yet sensory celebration.

Eco-Friendly Signage That Lasts for Decades

Unlike a television or other LED screens, you will never have to deal with broken pixels or broken units with one of our sustainable signs. We have a Split Flap in our shop, for instance, that has been running non-stop for the equivalent of 250+ years. These custom departure boards are beautiful, innovative signs that also help brands meet their LEED certification.

Split Flap Display Rentals

Have a temporary event, trade show, popup, or activation? We’ve rented Split Flap displays to SXSW, Expo West, Dreamforce, and more! A select few sizes are available for weekly and monthly use. These are perfect for attracting conference-goers to your booth or engaging attendees at an experiential marketing event.