Category: News
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National Museum of Ireland four-year tender opportunity
The National Museum of Ireland has recently launched a tender for exhibition design services across its five sites over a four-year period, estimating the fee total at around £876,000 (€1 million) for the duration. The initial project will be the development of a new temporary exhibition and interpretative scheme, featuring early medieval insular manuscripts from…
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SignAgent initiative supports environmental graphics design students and educators
In mid-November ’23 SignAgent launched its SignAgent for Education Program to provide complimentary licences to access its platform to: students who are currently enrolled in design programmes; and educators teaching design courses. SignAgent’s cloud-based sign asset management platform offers a solution for students and educators to effectively design and manage their wayfinding and signage projects.…
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Help Historic England create a map of the UK’s ghost signs
Historic England wants your photos of ghost signs! The organisation is creating a map of the UK’s ‘ghost signs’ and is looking for people around the country to help out. It hopes that the map will help broaden understanding about where ghost signs can be found. Historic England describes these signs, often found in urban settings and…
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Museum of London upcoming exhibition – can you help?
The Museum of London‘s London Wall site is closed, currently in the process of relocating to Smithfield’s General Market Building in Farringdon. It’s due to re-open to the public in 2026. The museum has made a public appeal for eye-catching signs from London venues past and present for a planned permanent exhibition, ‘Hanging Out’, due…
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SignAgent launches new brand identity
SignAgent officially announced the launch of its newly updated brand identity at SEGD’s Annual Conference in August ’23. The conference, held in Washington DC, is where the experiential graphic design society recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. The SignAgent platform is a collaborative, cloud-based project management software used for the planning, design, production, implementation, and ongoing…
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Consultation period now open for Design standards for accessible railway stations: a code of practice
The Department for Transport is currently seeking views on improving the code of practice on design standards for accessible stations. The code of practice on design standards for accessible railway station provides standards for anyone carrying out rail infrastructure improvements. The underlying principle of the code is that, ‘whenever work takes place, the opportunity is…
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Natural History Museum £150,000 wayfinding tender opportunity
On 11 August ’23, the Natural History Museum (NHM) in South Kensington London launched a tender valued at £150,000 for the design of a new signage and wayfinding system, to align with its new brand identity and improve the visitor experience. The last major signage project at the NHM was carried out in 2007. This…
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Reader’s corner book of the month: November 2023
Featuring publications of relevance to our industry, including those cited in SDS e-newsletter lead articles and suggested additional reading, we’ve recently relaunched the SDS Reader’s Corner book of the month page. Each month we will showcase a suggested read that relates to our professional areas of interest, be it a seminal publication or something more…
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Coming soon: 2nd edition Sign Design Guide
[If you wish to purchase a copy of the current edition of the Sign Design Guide, please email our Administrator.] Many of you will be familiar with the Sign Design Guide . It is firmly established as an authoritative guide to designing signs inclusively. The Guide is now over 20 years old, and while still…
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Whybrow Pedrola becomes Whybrow Studio
As of mid June 2023, Whybrow Pedrola is renamed Whybrow Studio, now that they’ve fully embraced the move to Margate on the north Kent coast. The Whybrow Pedrola studio opened in Margate when the pandemic hit in 2020. It was a positive move, and the team have made it home. Whybrow Studio retains its desk…