Grafix Shoppe

Grafix Shoppe was founded in Minneapolis, MN in 1988. We began in typical small-company style, doing a wide variety of jobs for a wide variety of clients. But within a year or two, we began to develop a strength in vehicle graphics, both for commercial vehicles and police cars. In 1991, the body style of police cars changed dramatically, and departments were almost literally forced to change their designs, as their old graphics no longer fit the new cars. To capitalize on this, we created the idea of a graphic “kit”, which was essentially a stock graphic design that could be easily modified, produced and shipped for installation by the customer’s local body shop. This business grew rapidly and fueled our expansion throughout the 1990s.