2010 · Brazil
The first sign shop — Agência Sinai
Guilherme bought a small print and sign company called GW Comunicação Visual and rebranded it as Agência Sinai Comunicação Visual. Doing everything from vinyl lettering to large-format printing — the shop grew fast enough to double its space twice in five years.
Agência Sinai · Brazil · 2010–2015
2015 · Brazil
The crisis
A national economic crisis hit small businesses hard. Customer defaults piled up faster than Agência Sinai could absorb them. After five years of growth, the shop closed. Guilherme moved into a different role — press advisor at the local city council, running the plenary chamber, community TV station and institutional design work for two years.
2017 · USA
A new country
Guilherme moved to the United States — landing in Southwest Florida.
2018 · SWFL
Back to printing
He joined a small print shop in SWFL focused on custom shirts. Within a few months, the owners noticed his sign-shop background and opened a sign division — Guilherme ran it for nearly 4 years, managing everything from vehicle wraps to channel letter installs.
2019 · Side hustle
Brittoprint is born (as Ekosign)
The brand was registered in 2019 — originally as Ekosign, run as a side business in evenings and weekends. The plan: keep building the muscle until going full-time made sense.
August 2022 · Full-time
All in on Brittoprint
After almost 4 years of moonlighting, Guilherme went 100% full-time on his own shop. Equipment ordered. Customers lined up. Then…
September 2022 · Hurricane Ian
Everything underwater
⚠ Hurricane Ian · Cat 5
Two months after launching full-time, Hurricane Ian hit Southwest Florida as a Category 5. The shop disappeared overnight — every piece of equipment, every roll of vinyl, every machine submerged. Total loss.
The morning after · Sept 2022 · Total loss
Customers didn't stop calling. They needed wraps, signs, shirts. Guilherme made a call: rather than disappear from the market, he temporarily outsourced production to a partner in Ohio. Lower margin, smaller orders, longer turnaround — but every customer kept their project moving while Brittoprint rebuilt behind the scenes.
April 2023 · The rebuild
New equipment. New start.
Six months after Ian, Guilherme bought a full set of new printing and finishing equipment. With no warehouse space available in SWFL post-hurricane, Brittoprint operated out of a garage for the first months back — same quality, same materials, just a smaller stage.
September 2023 · Lehigh Acres
The current shop
Brittoprint officially opened at 5441 Lee St, Unit 5, Lehigh Acres, FL — the home address ever since. Production capacity has grown every quarter, new equipment has been added, and there's an expansion in the works.
The shop today · Lehigh Acres, FL · 2023 onwards
Today
Where we are now
Brittoprint serves Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Naples, Bonita Springs, Estero, Lehigh Acres and all of Southwest Florida — with the same hands-on approach that started 15 years ago in a small Brazilian shop. Same standards. Bigger equipment. Better story.