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The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design wins funding to explore how neurodivergent people experience streets
The Rees Jeffreys Road Fund has awarded The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Royal College of Art a grant to explore how neuro-divergent people experience streets. Streets are public places that belong to everyone. They not only help us to get around, but also define and shape our neighbourhoods and form an important foundation for our…
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National Army Museum Wayfinding and Signage
ABG DESIGN Project Name: National Army Museum signage and wayfinding Client: National Army Museum, London Sector: Museums and heritage Location: Chelsea, London (UK) Role: ABG Design won a competitive tender for the signage and wayfinding for the newly architected National Army Museum. The new museum and extension was carried out by BDP. The new museum was much larger…
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Redcar Regent Cinema
ASTLEY Project name: Redcar Regent Cinema. Clients: Bam Construction Ltd. Sector: Retail & leisure Location: Redcar, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Role: The project encompassed the manufacture and install of external and internal brand graphics, including building signage and ambient wayfinding. Brief: Leading the rebuild of the Redcar Regent Cinema, BAM Construction required a supplier to provide…
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University of East Anglia
ABG DESIGN Project Name: University of East Anglia – Wayfinding, signage, map and signage design guide Client: University of East Anglia Sector: Schools, colleges and universities Location: Norwich, Norfolk (UK) Role: ABG Design was commissioned to undertake a complete wayfinding audit of the UEA campus, and to design and specify a campus wide signage family. To complement the…
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Curry’s Rebrand
NOVA ALUMINIUM SYSTEMS LTD Clients: Curry’s was the end client. As a trade only supplier Nova Aluminium Systems fabricated and supplied to a sign company. Sector: Retail & leisure Location: UK-wide Role: To fabricate and supply rebranding signage for Curry’s Challenges: This was a huge project with many complexities, not least that it took place when…
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Tower of London: Superbloom, Historic Royal Palaces
ISgROUP Project name: Wayfinding for Tower of London: Superbloom Client: Historic Royal Palaces approached isGroup requiring wayfinding signage for ‘Superbloom’, a time-limited event to be held at The Tower of London in celebration of the Queen’s 2022 Platinum Jubilee. Sector: Visitor attractions Location: City of London, England The role: The nature of the service delivered –…
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University of Wolverhampton, School of Architecture
XSIGN Project Name: University of Wolverhampton, School of Architecture Clients: ISG and Associated Architects Sector: Schools, colleges and universities Location: Wolverhampton (UK) Role: Wayfinding service, signage design, manufacture, and installation of the signage. The Brief: xsign were specified by ISG and Associated Architects to provide an internal and external signage scheme at the University of Wolverhampton, School of Architecture using…
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£2.5 million package announced to help disabled people travel around the UK more confidently
The new funding will include £1.5 million allocated to support all 13 Mobility Centres across England roll out a ‘Hubs Mobility Service’. These vital services help people stay mobile after they have been advised to stop driving or if they are unable to learn to drive due to their disabilities, offering them advice on alternatives…
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Abram Games Archive visit
On 10 February, the Sign Design Society made its twice postponed visit to the Abram Games archive. This visit was significant because it’s the first in-person event the society has organised since the start of the pandemic in 2020. Little did we know the absolute wealth of treasure awaiting us. We were a small group…
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One Bishopsgate Plaza
endpoinT Client: UOL Group Limited Sector: Retail & leisure Location: London (UK) Role: Wayfinding and sign design The Brief: One Bishopsgate Plaza was a project of firsts: it was the first Pan Pacific Hotel in the UK, and it was also the first high-rise residential and hospitality development in the City of London for some years.…