Aluminium

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It is safe to say that is the standard for the industry today, it is a versatile and pliant metal that when combined with heavy-duty plastics, create a great signage composite.

As well as the flexibility of the material, are a great substrate to place onto, as you can see here in the picture.

Archive for February, 2011, page 1

Bespoke Wayfinding Sign

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Wayfinding Sign 48

If you need to get people somewhere, then you need a wayfinding sign – the only thing is, there are SO many ways to make wayfinding signs!

This one is specific to a location, because the arrow points to a single place. The sign itself only labels a single place too, so it’s very .

The colour is a muted yellow, suitable for use indoors, and the writing is clear and legible, very easy to read for the vast majority of the population.

This style of sign belongs to the directional signs,wayfinding signs categories. Click on one of those links to see more kinds of articles like this one.

Unique Road Sign

Road Sign 20

Road Sign 20

Many road signs are very plain and just show the name of the road. Occasionally you will see city road signs that have the name of the local district council or perhaps the county council.

This one that you see in the image to the right, is a bit more inclusive, and has the extra information of the numbers of the houses in the cul-de-sac or that side of the street.

You will also note a road sign symbol on this road sign. This is the dead end symbol, a useful addition to a road sign.

This style of sign belongs to the road signs category. Click on that link to see more kinds of articles like this one.

Easy to Understand NHS Sign

NHS Sign 6

NHS Sign 6

It may appear to you that NHS signs are lacking in their ingenuity of design, but that is not the purpose of many NHS signs. The legibility and ease of understanding is more often than not, the overriding purpose of signs.

This NHS sign that you can see in the image to the right, is simple. Its purpose is to tell you where you are – that’s all it’s designed to do. So you might say the design is nearly perfect as the lettering is large and clear, the contrast between lettering and background is obvious, and the sign achieves its purpose.

The sign itself is created using , with a panel placed over the top.

This style of sign belongs to the health signs,hospital signs,nhs signs categories. Click on one of those links to see more kinds of articles like this one.

Polished Acrylic Educational Sign

Polished Acrylic Sign 7

Polished Acrylic Sign 7

It is very tempting to say that this is an educational or university sign; it is, but more importantly it is a style of sign that we call a polished acrylic sign. This is a prestige style of sign, a sign that is designed and created to impress.

This particular polished acrylic sign is designed to do more than to impress – it tells the viewer what services are available in the Student Centre where the sign is installed.

The lettering for this polished acrylic sign is created using that is reverse cut and applied to the back side of the sign.

This style of sign belongs to the polished acrylic signs category. Click on that link to see more kinds of articles like this one.

Bespoke Wayfinding Sign

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Bespoke Sign 63

Unlike many of the wayfinding signs that you see, this one in the image is an example where we have used to print a vinyl face to show the graphical logo rather than just simple text.

The projecting sign itself is created from .

This style of sign belongs to the bespoke signs,wayfinding signs categories. Click on one of those links to see more kinds of articles like this one.