Author: marco
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British Sign Awards 2019 – SDS member companies win trophies in four categories
On 14th November, British sign industry colleagues including many SDS members gathered at the Athena Centre in Leicester to celebrate the best UK-based sign makers of 2019. Now in their seventh year, the British Sign Awards have become a beacon for the best in British Signmaking, providing a unique showcase for the creative talent, technological…
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Festival of Place 2019 – a member’s perspective
Back in July, Festival of Place gifted the Society two tickets to their inaugural conference. The aim was to bring people that work in the built environment together to explore how to create places that thrive. The tickets were offered to two lucky members, on a first-come-first-served basis. First out of the blocks was Sapna…
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Harrods Retail Wayfinding
endpoint Project Name: Harrods Retail Wayfinding Clients: Harrods Sector: Retail & leisure Location: London (UK) Role: The nature of the service delivered i.e. sign design, wayfinding, manufacture and installation, map design, typography and brand identity design. The Brief: Harrods is a world-class, luxury shopping brand. It’s also a huge store, with 330 departments spread across a…
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Wayfinding Signage for the V&A Museum, London
reade signs Project Name: Wayfinding signage at one of the world’s leading museums of art and design, the V & A Client: V&A Museum Sector: Museums Location: London (UK) Role: The V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design, with a permanent collection of over 2.3 million objects. Reade Signs won a competitive tender to supply…
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Whybrow and Heath Pedrola form a new London wayfinding and placemaking agency partnership
Ian Whybrow and Heath Pedrola are partners of newly formed Whybrow Pedrola. Originating from different sides of the world – South East England and North East Australia respectively – Ian and Heath met at a Society of Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) event in San Francisco. Whybrow has been an established agency in London for over…
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Perdiswell Leisure Centre
xsign Project Name: Perdiswell Leisure Centre Signage Clients: Perdiswell Leisure Centre and Cantoo Design Sector: Retail & leisure Location: Worcester (UK) Role: Sign scheme design, signs manufacture & signs installation The Brief: xsign have built a strong partnership with Eric Klein Velderman, designer at Cantoo Design. He commissioned the company to provide the sign scheme for…
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University of Birmingham
xsign Project Name: University of Birmingham Digital Totem Signs Client: University of Birmingham Sector: Schools, colleges and universities Location: Birmingham (UK) Role: Sign scheme design, signs manufacture and signs installation The Brief: xsign have a long-standing relationship with the University of Birmingham. The company have provided sign packages across a number of sites at the university campus, as part…
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Royal Papworth Hospital
xsign Project Name: Royal Papworth Hospital Client: Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust, Skanska Sector: Hospitals, healthcare and research Location: Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge (UK) Role: Wayfinding consultancy, sign scheme design, signs manufacture and signs installation. The Brief: xsign were appointed to provide wayfinding consultancy, sign manufacture and sign installation at the brand new Cambridge Biomedical Campus for Royal…
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Venice Marco Polo International Airport, Wayfinding Strategy
pascall+watson Project Name: Venice Marco Polo International Airport, Wayfinding Strategy Client: SAVE S.p.A. Sector: Transport (Aviation) Location: Venice (Italy) The role: Wayfinding design – strategic advice and guidance, brand design, sign planning, product design and digital content design – from initial conceptual discussion through toimplementation and delivery on site. The brief: Pascall+Watson were appointed by Venice Marco…
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Quadram Institute
abg design Project Name: Quadram Institute Client: Quadram Institute Sector: Hospitals, healthcare and research Location: Norwich (UK) Role: The Quadram Institute is a new multi-million state-of-the-art food and health research and NHS endoscopy centre. It will create new interfaces between food science, gut biology, human health and disease, capitalizing on the world-class bioscience cluster based at the…