5 TIPS TO GET WAYFINDING SIGNAGE RIGHT

Good wayfinding signage needs to engage with as well as inform the visitor. It should guide people and can be attractive, but most importantly, it must clearly inform. Although wayfinding projects are not always the most exciting of tasks, they are crucial to the integrity and safety of a building, so it critical that it…

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A HISTORY OF SIGNS, SIGNMAKING & TYPES OF SIGNAGE

The importance of signage is hard to overstate in today’s society. One of the most powerful tools in commerce, signage too has its history. From road signs to hand-painted timber and LED-illuminated wayfinding signs, there has always been a need and a market for visual advertising tools to convey information, such as window graphics and…

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Why Traditional Sign-Making Skills Must Be Handed Down

Sign-making requires the mastery of a great number of diverse skills, from signwriting to glass blowing. Signs date back to the early Greek and Roman times. They started off as simple graphic representations of a trade, shop or tavern, normally displayed outside commercial premises. They were pictorial, as most people were illiterate at the time….

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3D External Weatherproof Retail Signage

Boardman Cycles commissioned smart new illuminated signs from us for their new premises in Evesham, one of the Cotswolds’ retail parks. (You might spot another of our high street logo designs for FAT FACE in the background as well.) Graffiti Design being known for halo lit LED letters in retail signage solutions, Boardman Cycles commissioned…

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GdiTRAX: Sign Lighting System of the Future

Graffiti Design and the Rise of LED From trough lights to colour-changing bulbs, LED sign lighting is becoming ever more prevalent in signmaking. As a lighting source, LED lights are being used more and more, becoming extremely important to the signmaking industry and its customers alike.  But demand and customer requirements are ever-evolving and accelerating…

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Lightbox Readograph Signage For London Cinema

Few things say “cinema!” more than a bulb-studded, six-foot-tall lightbox across a building. In sign-making, these iconic signs are called readographs. In warm white lighting with a background of black stripes on the front facade of movie theatres, light boxes just ooze old Hollywood glamour. Over the past few decades, we’ve designed, produced and installed…

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Halo Lit LED Letter Signs for Leading UK Corporation

Another project for Ashdown Business Park saw the manufacture and installation of these beautiful custom 3D signs for Jemtech, a fluid management company in need of high quality new corporate signage to adorn their new premises on the estate. Halo Lit Letter Design and Manufacture Featuring three 3 metre-high halo lit sign letters and logo…

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