Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) qagraphics.com
January 17, 2013
QA Graphics, an Iowa based interactive design company, is pleased to announce the hiring of John Brix. John has joined QA Graphics as their newest 3D designer. The company continues to experience steady growth and has created this new role to keep up with the increased demand for 3D design services.
As a 3D designer, John will produce compelling photorealistic 3D renderings, animations and photo composites. He’ll create realistic product representations for clients and also assist the interactive design team in producing 3D graphics and animations for a variety of touchscreen applications and other multimedia.
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) qagraphics.com
January 8, 2013
QA Graphics, Iowa interactive design firm, is celebrating its six year anniversary of providing creative design services and system graphic development for the building automation industry.
QA Graphics opened its doors six years ago in a small office space in Ankeny with just three employees. Despite the economic downturn, the company has continued to grow and has expanded into a full-service interactive design firm employing 30. When founded, the company focused on providing the building automation industry with the best possible graphic development services, and as a result has worked with some of the industry’s largest manufacturers.
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) qagraphics.com
January 2, 2013
QA Graphics is pleased to announce the promotion of Cade Ingle to the new role of Marketing Coordinator.
Cade has been with QA Graphics for almost a year and a half, working as an HVAC graphics specialist. In this role he was responsible for developing BAS graphics for one of the company’s largest clients, Johnson Controls, Inc. QA Graphics also provides BAS graphic services for all types of building automation systems, experienced with Alerton, Andover, Automated Logic, Computrols, Delta, Distech, Honeywell, KMC Controls, Reliable Controls, Siemens Building Technologies, Teletrol, Tridium and Trane.
In the new role as marketing coordinator, Cade will work closely with the marketing and sales team to further expand the company’s initiatives and ensure a consistent brand. He will be responsible for managing and implementing the company’s direct marketing as well as with other marketing efforts. Prior to beginning at QA Graphics, Cade earned his Bachelors of Arts in advertising from Iowa State University and completed several internships, working as a competitive analysis and creative intern for Two Rivers Marketing, as a special events intern for the Iowa State Fair, and as marketing intern for Iowa State Athletics. While at Iowa State, Cade also worked as the creative advertising student manager, responsible for overseeing the creative design department. QA Graphics is excited to transition Cade to the sales and marketing team!
QA Graphics would like to thank all of its employees, customers, and partners. For the sixth consecutive year we have had record sales. In 2012, we worked with some of the largest companies in the world providing cutting edge applications and services. We achieved our goal of investing a tremendous amount resources to enhance all of our current products and services.
In 2013 we will be introducing some industry changing products and services that we are all incredibly excited for. We hope everyone has a safe and prosperous New Year.
Dan McCarty
President
QA Graphics

QA Graphics is mentioned in QSR Magazine’s “10 Trends for 2013” article. Trend #10 Evolving around health care mentions how QSRs are displaying calorie counts on their menu boards. QA Graphics is mentioned for the new menu board solution they have developed for Maid-Rite corporation.
View the QSR Magazine article.
Learn more about the digital menu board solution that QA Graphics has created for Maid-Rite.

QA Graphics is continuing to grow and is taking applications to hire another 3D Designer. This is a full time position at our office in Ankeny. Learn more.
The new custom graphic library that QA Graphics developed for Tridium’s latest update to its core software, NiagaraAX Framework® 3.7 is featured in the December issue of Engineered Systems magazine.
This new release includes built-in mobile support, enhanced security features, new web access features which facilitates development on NiagaraAX, and the updated graphics. The new library provides access to high-end graphics and animations that realistically represent the mechanical systems in place. The graphics are pre-installed on all Tridium NiagaraAX JACE and Supervisor devices including: AX Supervisor, the AX SoftJACE®, JACE®-2, JACE®-6E, JACE®-7, JACE®-NXT and JACE®-603/645 Series.
Learn more about the release of this new graphic library.
Contact:
Sarah Erdman, Marketing Director
515.965.3403
serdman (at) qagraphics.com
December 17, 2012
QA Graphics, leading provider of design services for the building automation industry, is pleased to share that their Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard solution is a recipient of the 2013 Top Products Award from Building Operating Management magazine.
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Top Products is an award program that recognizes the year’s most popular products as deemed by building owners and facilities management professionals in a nationwide survey. The nominees were drawn from product releases submitted by suppliers and manufacturers throughout the year for publication in Building Operating Management magazine and FacilitiesNet.com. Through an extensive process, 18 different surveys were sent randomly to nearly 100,000 industry professionals. For the 2013 awards, readers chose 78 winners out of 560 product releases. The winning product releases will be featured in the January 2013 issue of Building Operating Management magazine.
“We’re honored to receive this award for a second time,” said Dan McCarty, president of QA Graphics. “Our Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard product has become one of the leading dashboard solutions within the industry. As a company, we’ve grown organically without the help of outside investors, so it’s appreciated to have our Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard be recognized by our peers through awards like Building Operating Management magazine’s Top Product Award.”
Our Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard is included in an article in Metal Construction News magazine. View the article.