Welcome to the Sign Design Society
The Sign Design Society (SDS) is for anyone interested in information and graphic communication within buildings and public spaces, including:
- Wayfinding
- Interpretative graphics
- Brand and experiential/environmental graphics
- Statutory and health & safety signs
As well as raising the profile of our disciplines, we offer members a programme of events, resources and initiatives to help them:
- Keep up to date and improve their practice
- Find potential consultants, collaborators & employees
- Promote their work and capabilities
To join choose a membership plan that suits you and sign up!
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Third party events
Around 70 projects from 28 German universities were selected for the exhibition at Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum. The exhibition brings together work from product and industrial design, communication and digital design, as well as textile and fashion design. In all their diversity, the projects address some of the defining questions of our time. They also reveal the methods a new generation of designers is using to search for answers. How can waste and leftover materials be transformed into new resources? How can digital technologies be used in meaningful ways? How can design communicate knowledge, enable greater participation in society or imagine new ways of living together?
This exhibition brings together more than fifty years of documentary photography from Tyneside and East London. The exhibition draws on the AmberSide Collection and Four Corners Archive to trace the human consequences of decisions about housing, planning and who gets to shape the places we live. The exhibition asks what happens when housing ambitions become real places to live. Through photographs made across more than fifty years, it looks at what changed, what was gained, what was lost, what people fought for, and what happened next.
Avant-garde applied art in the interwar period was dominated by graphic design, photography, and typography. Progressive art movements left an indelible mark on the emerging modern mass media. Graphic design became a mirror of sociopolitical utopias and formal innovation. This called for new ways of seeing! Around one hundred years later, the exhibition looks back on this phase of new beginnings.
Planning is where some of the biggest questions facing the built environment become real: what gets built, what gets protected, who gets heard, what is prioritised, and how decisions are made in the public interest. For this edition of Confessions!, architect and Building Design columnist Eleanor Jolliffe is joined by Rachel Fisher, Chief Executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute, for a candid conversation about planning, policy and the difficult work of navigating complexity.
The Lettering Arts Trust and Albion Stone presents ‘Letters Unlimited’, an exhibition showcasing the work of the very best up-and-coming letter carvers.