Designing with Direction: 4 Essential Ingredients for Effective Wayfinding.
The Neon Museum
Osprey Charging Network
The Culture Log | Signs of NYC
London Wildlife Trust
This Way have been appointed by the London Wildlife Trust as signage and wayfinding consultants. London Wildlife Trust is a driving force for nature conservation across the capital. The project involves audit and analysis of the signage across 36 nature reserves, wayfinding strategy and signage design with a particular focus on inclusivity and sustainability followed by the creation of design principles and guidelines for production and implementation…
The Government Art Collection
OCL Vision
UK Research and Innovation
Working with our client UKRI we were appointed to design and implement a new wayfinding scheme across their Polaris House campus. The scope included a full audit and evaluation of the site, design and implementation of a new wayfinding strategy and creating a bespoke set of gender inclusive iconography.
Brilha Rio - Lisbon lettering in lights
It's a good sign
Tee Box
Eurotunnel Le Shuttle
Dulwich Picture Gallery
The Fellowship and Star
The Culture Log | Now Hear This
London Design Festival
LDF is back this week and there is plenty for typography, lettering and sign fans to get stuck into. Here's what's on our to do list:
South East Makers Club 2018
First up we are extremely proud to be a partner and support this year’s South East Makers Club as part of London Design Festival. SEMC18 is a celebration of South East London's creative talent, and takes place at Deptford Market Yard from 14th - 16th September. The line up includes exhibitions, installations and workshops as well as a makers market and the infamous designer pub quiz, for details and the full line up follow the link
London’s Other Side
Bankside is a district that has experienced constant reinvention. For centuries it welcomed those with a rebellious and independent spirit. Better Bankside, in collaboration with NB Studio, is flying 60 flags created by some of Bankside’s and London’s leading artists and designers to celebrate its independent state. Don’t miss the opportunity to see the flags hung in Jubilee Place at Borough Market for LDF, before they are proudly flown throughout the area. After the Festival, one set of flags will be auctioned to raise money for Better Bankside’s three community partners who do great work in the local area.
Better Letters
Back at the London Design Festival for a fourth year in a row, Better Letters is bringing free screenings and two ticketed signwriting workshops to the Bankside Design District. Get inspired by the stories of three retired signwriters at a triple bill screening, and then get your hands dirty with a beginner’s workshop in Borough Market. For ticket information and timings see link below.
Type Tasting
Type Tasting is back in Bankside with a series of exciting and immersive events that break the rules of traditional wine and gin tastings as well as a pop up typography lab. For more information follow the link below.
Alphabet by Kellenberger-White
Known for their playful approach to typefaces, Kellenberger–White has designed a new series of alphabet chairs as a Landmark Project at Broadgate, supported by Festival Headline Partner British Land.
Hand painted signage for World of Interiors
We are very proud to share a project we have recently completed for World of Interiors magazine, to design and produce hand painted fairground style signage for a photoshoot featured in the May issue, out now!
The shoot was for a kitchen and bathroom feature with the idea being to create a traditional coconut shy complete with authentic hand painted signage. Working with their in house team, we designed and colour tested to ensure it all scaled correctly with the subheading editorial content and help bring to life the creative vision of the set. It was a lot of fun to work on and the World of Interiors team really are a lovely bunch!
Published by Condé Nast, The World of Interiors is one of the foremost design and decoration titles in the world.
London Design Festival 2017
LDF17 is just around the corner and there is plenty for typography, lettering and sign fans to get stuck into. Here's what's on our to do list:
BETTER LETTERS | HAND LETTERING WORKSHOPS
Better Letters celebrate hand-crafted lettering from around the world and they'll be hosting three fantastic signwriting workshops at Borough Market and The Art Academy.
Mike Meyer Intensive Hand Lettering Workshop
16 & 17 September, 10am - 5pm
Borough Market, 8 Southwark Street, SE1 1TL
This is an intensive day filled with paint, brushes, lettering and laughs. You will hone your Gothic (Block), Casual and Script letter forms through a hands-on process of practice, personal critique and expert guidance from Sign Painters very own Mike Meyer.
betterletters.co/LDF
Create Your Own Lettering with Martina Flor
23 & 24 September, 10am - 5pm
The Art Academy, 165A Borough High Street, Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR
Engage with the process of drawing and refining a piece of your own custom lettering. Across the day you will be introduced to a variety of effective techniques to create lettering from scratch, under the guidance of Berlin-based letterer and author, Martina Flor.
betterletters.co/LDF
Gold and Glass Workshop
23 & 24 September, 10am - 5pm
The Art Academy, 165A Borough High Street, Mermaid Court, SE1 1HR
Learn the basic techniques required to work with gold leaf for lettering and sign work. Working on flat panels, and in reverse on glass, you’ll be guided through the steps required to achieve a variety of different finishes.
THE BETTER LETTERS GLOWING ALPHABET PEEP SHOW
Saturday 16 – Sunday 24 September
Hilton London Bankside, 2-8 Great Suffolk Street, SE1 0UG
This free lettering-themed installation features 27 original signwritten works glowing within a modern curiosity cabinet in the Hilton London Bankside lobby. Curated and created by the team at Better Letters, you are invited to cruise the peep holes and find your favourite glowing letter…
THE EPHEMERAL NATURE OF LETTERING ARTS
Wednesday 20 September, 7pm - 9pm
Devonshire House, 68 Union Street, SE1 1TD
Specialist speakers from a range of disciplines in typography and design will debate questions around the transitory nature of lettering and the interconnectedness of various lettering, calligraphic and type traditions. The panel includes Rob Saunders (Letterform Archive), Paul Antonio (Master Calligrapher), Sam Roberts (Better Letters and Ghost Signs) and will be chaired by Donald Hyslop (Tate Modern).
LETTERFORM ARCHIVE | GRAPHIC DESIGN PROCESS: ANALOG ARTIFACTS OF EXPERIMENTATION, DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTION
Wednesday 20 – Sunday 24 September
Devonshire House, 68 Union Street, SE1 1TD
A first for the UK, San Francisco’s Letterform Archive will pop up at Flat Iron Square in Bankside. The exhibition highlights the work designers produce on the way to final products utilising the breadth of the Letterform Archive collection. Includes the work of W.A. Dwiggins, Emigre Inc, Eric Gill, Philip Grushkin, Edward Johnston, Aaron Marcus, Herbert Matter, Piet Zwart and others. Join founder and curator Rob Saunders and librarian Amelia Grounds for a walkthrough of the exhibition. You’ll learn about analog production and get an up close look at the pieces.
TYPE TASTING | WHAT'S YOUR FONT?
16 & 17 September
Design Studio, Sackler Centre for arts education, Victoria and Albert Museum
Pick a typeface then customise it to reflect your personality and create your own Font Selfie. Add this to the display, which will grow throughout the weekend to create an exciting collection of typographic self-portraits.
At 2pm each day, join author and Type Tasting founder Sarah Hyndman for a short talk about her research into typeface personalities.
PAUL ANTONIO AND BETTER BANKSIDE
Saturday 16 – Sunday 24 September
Various Locations on Borough High Street
Literary legends of Bankside will come alive through a series of installations by master calligrapher Paul Antonio. Historic Borough High Street, one of London’s oldest thoroughfares, was walked by Chaucer, Dickens and Shakespeare. Quotes will be inscribed on windows in the letterforms of the period.
OTL AICHER'S ISNY
Saturday 16 – Sunday 24 September, 10am - 5pm
dn&co, 3 Tyers Gate, SE1 3HX
Brand and design agency dn&co will be celebrating the work of iconic 20th century German graphic designer Otl Aicher at its gallery Ground Floor Space in Bermondsey as part of the London Design Festival.
Forty years after it was created, the exhibition and limited edition book revisits how Aicher took what was expected of the small tourist town of Isny im Allgäu in Southern Germany, and defied it with a kit of 128 pictograms – in a way that was miles ahead of its time. The collection of rare prints will be the most comprehensive collection of Aicher’s Isny work to be seen in the UK.
A new adventure
The past year has been pretty busy, I moved house, got married, and perhaps the most daunting yet exciting of all, I launched a business. I've always had an ambition to run my own company since working for the family business whilst at university. The entrepreneurial spirit must run in the family.
After 17 years in the signage industry working across a range of different positions, project managing major wayfinding and environmental branding schemes, delivering global multi-site roll outs and designing bespoke signage, the time was right.
It's not just a job, I'm passionate about this industry; the craft, the tradition, the creativity, the engineering, the fact the final product is so visual, so subjective, so incredibly important, and in some cases incredibly permanent. I am a self professed sign geek and my travels always feature an element of sign spotting (I can thoroughly recommend a few if you ever get the opportunity - the Neon Boneyard in Las Vegas, the Letterform Archive in San Francisco, the Buchstauben Museum in Berlin, Ghostsigns walking tours in London or just wandering cities and looking up at signage and lettering in the built environment for inspiration.)
Now I'll be driving all of this passion and inspiration, my influences, everything I've learnt, my creativity and my practical experience into my own company.
I am very proud to introduce THIS WAY, a brand new signage consultancy. If any of your projects involve signage, we'd love to talk to you.