Event categories: Past event
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The Great British Railways Signing Challenge: 60 Years of Learning and Unlearning
Date: 2 October 2025 Thursday 2 October 2025 (1pm BST / 2pm CEST) Daniel Wright’s talk Transport writer Daniel Wright’s overview of 60 years of British railway station signage. Starting with British Railways’ 1965 unified signage scheme and how it got lost, the talk moved through the anarchy of privatisation-era signage, before looking at how…
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SDS & SEGD London Symposium @LDF25 – Wayfinding: Future Thinking
Date: 18 September 2025 You could get an idea of what was to come at our symposium in this Motasdesign podcast episode, featuring SDS Chair Andrew Barker. SDS and SEGD were delighted to collaborate again, on a symposium for 2025. Our event, proudly sponsored by Electrosonic, was part of this year’s London Design Festival. This…
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Lettering Tour of Highgate Cemetery
Date: 24 July 2025More info There was no recording of this tour Example of headstone lettering on an old grave (for John Brown who died in 1861) in Highgate Cemetery The Sign Design Society secured an exclusive lettering tour of Highgate Cemetery. Stonemason Neil Luxton gave us a guided tour of the lettering in the cemetery. Neil conducts stonemasonry…
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Natural Wayfinding in Hackney Central
Date: 24 April 2025More info 24 April 2025 (1pm BST) Anna Saveleva, James Brown and Riccardo Bobisse’s talk In this talk, Riccardo Bobisse, Anna Saveleva and James Brown shared key insights from a recent collaboration between the AR Urbanism team, Air Design, Hackney Council, and its residents, as part of the development of a wayfinding…
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Culture, the Arts, Creative Placemaking, and the Software of City Making
Date: 13 March 2025 13 March 2025 Rana Amirtahmasebi and Jason Schupbach’s talk Much attention about the present and future of cities focusses on the hardware of highways and infrastructure, airports and flood defenses: what is missing are conversations about the software which is culture. We need to reframe how we talk about culture in…
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Why Even Use Traditional Signs?
Date: 20 February 2025 20 February 2025 Andrew Grundon’s talk Where does traditional sign painting fit in the modern world? Sign writer / painter Andrew Grundon (Signature Signs) talked about his craft, its place in modern day sign design, and how commercial sign companies can accommodate the integration of this traditional craft and the specific…
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Finding Your Way to A New Job – Wayfinding for the Austrian Jobcentre
Date: 30 January 2025 1pm, Thursday 30 January 2025 Our 2025 programme of seminars started with Katrin Beste (from Vienna-based d-licious Grafik Design studio) discussing her work designing a new wayfinding system for all 120 jobcentre branches in Austria (Arbeitsmarktservice, AMS), rolled out across the country since 2022. A key element of the design was…
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The Beck Effect: How London’s Look Went Global
Date: 12 December 2024 Almost every city in the world show their transit systems as a diagram, and most of those can trace their original inspiration to London’s fabled Underground map. Conceived in the early 1930s by Henry (aka Harry) Beck, his concept of representing curvaceous track routes and labyrinthine tunnels with straightened coloured lines, evening…
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Interaction of Symbols: User-Centered Icon Design
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Why Frictionless Digital Signage for Bus Shelters?
This content is limited for members only Within our member-only pages we provide a wide range of useful information resources including: Recordings of our talks Presentations Academic research papers Case studies Guidance on standards and good practice Project opportunities Join the SDS today to access our priviliged member-only information. SDS members and other registered site users: to choose,…