Specialist technical input into production of UD corporate standards' manual for signage. This manual was produced for the launch of their new corporate image worldwide. We were subsequently responsible for the survey of 17 distilleries and bottling plants throughout the U.K., supplying manufacturing information for exterior main entrance signs, directional car parking signs and building I.D. signs. Further project management work was commissioned for the production and installation of signage at all 17 locations.
Contacted by the Estates Manager at St. George's. Our brief was to work with the Estates Department on site to produce a comprehensive signage consultancy package which would solve the existing wayfinding problems experienced by visitors, and also promote the hospital's new corporate image. This is one of the largest hospitals in Europe, housing numerous surgical and therapy departments, clinics, wards and university teaching departments within four separate five-storey blocks, and many smaller peripheral buildings. The hospital desperately needed a solution to the problems facing pedestrian and vehicular traffic trying to navigate the site. After spending several weeks on site, we submitted a range of proposals which included applying a unique logo and colour to each of the four main buildings, creating free-standing plinth signs with full colour maps of the hospital and road layout, colour co-ordinating all exterior and interior signs and the establishment of a one way traffic flow system around the perimeter road. All proposals were adopted by the hospital and we were also appointed as project managers for the production and installation of all new signage. From initial brief to final installation took approximately four months of on site work.
Invited by the Architect to become involved at the planning stages of Motorola's new state of the art mobile phone production facility in Bathgate, West Lothian. We presented samples of various aluminium sign systems with the intention of sourcing one system which could adapt to all of the client's requirements. The chosen system was then used to provide exterior monolith entrance signs, free-standing directional road signs, interior directional and departmental signs, meeting room signs and personnel name signs, all to match Motorola's strict corporate standards manual. This sign system has since been used to provide many subsequent signage requirements at the site from suspended line I.D. cubes with magnetic lettering, to double-sided suspended signs above specific manufacturing process areas, decorative banners and Health and Safety information signs.
Commissioned directly by the client to project manage the design, manufacture and installation of exterior signage for their new production facility. All new signage had to promote client's corporate standards and project a sharp, clean contemporary image. A further request was made to produce a sign for the side of the building large enough to be seen by commuters travelling by train on the adjacent railway line.
Originally contracted by Balfour Beatty to design and supply exterior signage to Quintiles newly constructed facility in Inchwood, Bathgate including neon lit, stainless steel lettering and exterior directional signs. We then worked directly with Quintiles Facilities Management Team over the next four years to supply a wide range of exterior monolith signs, interior directional and door signs to a further four Quintiles facilities located throughout the West Lothian area.
Occupying a listed building, and situated within the conservation area of Glasgow city centre, MacDonald Furnishing worked closely with ourselves and the Planning Authorities to achieve signage which was elegant, concise and sympathetic to the character of their building. This was one of our more challenging design projects and involved the construction of a semi circular box sign which had to be mounted onto an existing steel and glass canopy structure. The box was fabricated in aluminium and welded internally to form the required shape, The lettering was stencilled out of the face and backed with opal acrylic sheet which was illuminated from within the box using fluorescent lamps. Individual lettering was also used at a higher level allowing the building to be clearly identifiable from a distance.
