Welcome to the Sign Design Society
The Sign Design Society (SDS) is for anyone interested in information and graphic communication within buildings and public spaces, including:
- Wayfinding
- Interpretative graphics
- Brand and experiential/environmental graphics
- Statutory and health & safety signs
As well as raising the profile of our disciplines, we offer members a programme of events, resources and initiatives to help them:
- Keep up to date and improve their practice
- Find potential consultants, collaborators & employees
- Promote their work and capabilities
To join choose a membership plan that suits you and sign up!
Our events
Spaceagency explores cities and architecture as living interfaces, shaping human experience through wayfinding, touchpoints, and narrative layers. Moving beyond digital screens, their work focusses on how environments communicate, influence behaviour, and evolve into hybrid realms of physical, cultural, and digital meaning. This seminar shares key projects and future insights.
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News
2nd edition Sign design guide now available to buy!
The new edition of the guide continues to provide practical guidance to experts and non-specialists alike, based on both best practice in inclusive design and the latest research.
Third party events
Embrace the world of material innovation! Join 6000+ architects, designers and specifiers to discover the best innovative materials for the built environment whilst also enjoying a stellar line up of guest speakers and thought-provoking installations.
As cities around the world face mounting crises – climate change, traffic congestion and growing inequity – the need for bold, people-first solutions has never been greater. Enter the women leading the charge. Melissa and Chris Bruntlett highlight the groundbreaking work of female mayors, planners, advocates, and policymakers in reshaping urban spaces for the better. From Paris to Bogota, Manila to Montreal, these leaders are reclaiming streets, reimagining mobility, and designing safer, more inclusive public spaces, despite fierce opposition.
Increase your understanding of how to make environments more inclusive for people living with sight loss.
We’re delighted to have Honorary Academician Tina Saaby delivering this year’s Academy of Urbanism Founder’s Lecture, exploring city urbanism through the perspective of children and young people. The presentation will draw on lessons from her time as City Architect for Copenhagen and Gladsaxe, Denmark.
Every place is full of stories. When bringing a heritage building back to life, or when shaping any building, public space or whole neighbourhood, there is an opportunity to bring those stories to life. Whether through a collaborative design journey or through the physical changes made, there is something powerful about connecting our built world with local people and communities, past and present, through stories. Cristina Carrasco, Participation Manager for the Sunday School Stories Project at Union Chapel in Islington joins us to explore different ways to both tap into and celebrate the stories connected with the places we inhabit, and how these can both contribute to and influence our sense of cultural belonging within our shared heritage across architecture, music and social justice.