From Drawing to Wall

Materials, manufacture, installation: how signage gets real.

In this theme

What signs are made of: a signage materials guide for specifiers

Acrylic, aluminium, stainless, brass, timber, solid surface, glass. Where each belongs, how long it lasts, what it costs, and what it does to compliance.

Signage materials in the workshop: flat-cut acrylic letters laid on a printed panel on the bench, cut edges showing the full thickness of the solid material

Everything in from drawing to wall

7 min
Sign manufacturing, step by step: from artwork to factory floor
8 min
The architect's guide to signage specification
5 min
Sign schedules and BIM: signage as a coordinated building system
7 min
External signage: designing for weather, vandals and time
5 min
Internal signage systems: modularity, updates and change
6 min
Signage installation: why the last 5% is the hardest
5 min
The signage site survey: measure twice, install once
5 min
Signage maintenance: thinking in decades, not defects
7 min
Signage cost: why end-to-end delivery lands up to 20% lower
7 min
Signage procurement: through the main contractor, or direct?
6 min
Value-engineering signage without destroying it
7 min
Signage package cost: what actually drives the price

What signs are made of: a signage materials guide for specifiers

Sign manufacturing, step by step: from artwork to factory floor

The architect's guide to signage specification

Sign schedules and BIM: signage as a coordinated building system

External signage: designing for weather, vandals and time

Internal signage systems: modularity, updates and change

Signage installation: why the last 5% is the hardest

The signage site survey: measure twice, install once

Signage maintenance: thinking in decades, not defects

Signage cost: why end-to-end delivery lands up to 20% lower

Signage procurement: through the main contractor, or direct?

Value-engineering signage without destroying it

Signage package cost: what actually drives the price