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
Cities worldwide contain numerous vacant spaces—unused, underutilised, or abandoned land and buildings across public and private realms. While long present in urban landscapes, these spaces have recently gained renewed attention as sites of possibility. Informal actors are increasingly activating such voids through unconventional, sometimes temporary interventions, offering alternatives to conventional public spaces, such as parks and squares, typically produced by the formal sector. This seminar explores how these informal practices transform vacant spaces into dynamic, socially meaningful places.
Print your own letterpress poster, using our historic printing presses and wood type in this hands-on workshop. Choose any text you wish to print – it could be a quintessential quote, a punk poem or a lively lyric (though we recommend your creative inspirations to be no more than 12 words). Our knowledgeable tutors will take you through the process, from composition (hand-setting type, spacing and locking-up) to printing (inking and pulling the press). The tutors will work with you to tailor the course to your abilities and interests. With small class sizes attendees will have ample opportunity for one-to-one guidance from our excellent gurus of print.
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.
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.