You've seen them everywhere, the black-and-yellow signs telling you what you need to know about Covid-19.

They have become a common sight in New Zealand since last year’s Covid-19 outbreak, with QR codes at the door of shops and buildings, or telling you where to go for a vaccine. The signs have recently had a resurgence since the August Delta outbreak and the country went back into lockdown.

Signmaker and designer Tony Croucher of Brushstrokes in Palmerston North, started printing signage for the Feilding Health Care centre during last year’s lockdown and things picked up from there.

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This year he’s had the same requests, doing the health centre, as well as producing signs for the pop-up vaccine centre at Manfeild in Feilding two weeks ago and information signs for shops and pharmacies.

“We kicked into gear producing signage, so people know where to go, and it skyrocketed from there.”

Last lockdown he was working by himself, this time he has had another staff member helping. He designs and manufactures it all himself.

His Auckland vinyl and ink suppliers have still been able to operate and Croucher has a 3D printer and can produce some materials too.

On Friday he had produced a large batch of QR code posters for a business in Palmerston North, Auckland and Christchurch.

Businesses previously had paper printouts for their QR codes, but now they wanted permanent signage.

During the first lockdown he went through six 50-metre rolls of vinyl printing signs, and he went through two rolls last week, as well as lots of sheets of corrugated plastic and aluminium composite material.

Melissa Coutts, secretary of the New Zealand Sign and Display Association, said their members weren’t as busy during this lockdown.

“A lot of the business throughout the country are not needing to go into work to do signage this time around.

“What has been happening is a lot them are working from home and designing. A lot of them have got clients preparing for when they can go back to work.”