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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.
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PARKLIFE Festival
Applelec Project Name: PARKLIFE Festival Client: Allen Signs Sector: Retail and leisure Location: Manchester Role: Trade manufacturer of bespoke signage solutions. Allen Signs selects Applelec illuminated built up letters for PARKLIFE festival. The Brief: Manchester’s biggest music festival blends music from dance, electronic, pop, rock, grime, hip hop and more. This two-day event attracts around…
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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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Global Cybersecurity Institute’s Brand Environment
ID Signsystems Project Name: Global Cybersecurity Institute’s Brand Environment Client: Rochester Institute of Technology Global Cybersecurity Institute Sector: Universities and colleges Location: Rochester, New York, United States Role: ID Signsystems has capabilities in complex brand environments, exhibitions, and wayfinding projects, as evident for signage constructed for RIT’s Global Cybersecurity Institute Cybersecurity Experience Center. The brief:…
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Ad Gefrin Distillery
Astley Project Name: Ad Gefrin Distillery Client: Studio MB Sector: Venue Location: Wooler, Northumberland, United Kingdom Role: Translated original design concepts into manufacture-ready solutions, providing the manufacture and installation of a variety of internal and external branded assets for the Ad Gefrin site. The brief: Astley was approached by Studio MB to help produce a…
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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…
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Designers: GA::kit Open Source Software now available
GA::kit has been created by American firm Gallagher & Associates (G&A), experts in the field of building community experiences. It’s an Open Source Software toolkit for developers and creative technologists on experience design teams, to quickly develop interactive experiences. This can be at any point in a design process, from a brief proof of concept,…
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Endpoint’s wayfinding solution of the National Museum of Norway wins gold at 2023 Viseult Awards
Congratulations to Endpoint whose wayfinding work for the iconic National Museum of Norway recently won gold at the 2023 Visuelt Awards ceremony, held on 11 May in Oslo. Statsbygg – the Norwegian Directorate of Public Construction and Property – appointed Endpoint to design and develop a wayfinding system that would enable museum visitors to easily…