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Art Wood, musician.

A prominent musician and jazz/blues singer in the London area during the late 50s and early 60s... Arthur Wood, known as Art, performed with Alexis Korner and a number of artistes who rose to fame with groups such as Deep Purple, The Rolling Stones and The Faces, including Rod Stewart.

The Art Wood Apartments is a tribute to the man who was famous amongst 60s R&B bands - there is a list on one of the walls in the reception area.

Art semi-retired from music to start up a graphic design company with his older brother Ted whilst their younger brother, Ronnie, later joined the Faces and the Stones.

Sadly, Art died of prostrate cancer a few years ago but, thanks to Shepherds Bush housing contractor Bugler and Art's primary school, St. Matthew's, he will be remembered as a local legend.

Signcraft had the privilege of designing, printing and installing the artwork at Art Wood Apartments.

Be Creative... with our Slimline Lightboxes

For some time we have been asked for super slim internal light box graphic displays and signage.

We now have a super slim LED driven display system that employs flex-face panels that can be easily changed for promotions, etc.. Each one can be created to almost any size and will connect simply to a standard electric ring main with a timer plug.

Beneficial House, a new development of residential apartments and state of the art gymnasium, required land marking with impressive and cost effective signage. The main fascia sign is a large format flex-face with total block out, to give the effect of individual text when lit at night; the entrance totems repeat the effect with fret-cut text and internal LED illumination.

   

Contact Signcraft for your Slim Lightbox: 01895 442768

Vehicle Wraps are the latest fashion!!

Following on from our announcement last September, we have been vehicle wrapping cars and vans in all colours and designs. We are pleased to show you a few finished projects below and provide a link to our website where you can view more images and read about our service.

Whether you want a fleet of vehicles draped with your corporate message or just want to change that orange Porsche to lime green or tartan, we can accommodate your design with a full or partial wrap.

Design for full Vehicle Wrap

Partial Wrap - Bumper - close up

Full Vehicle Wrap from black to red bodywork

An advantage of wrapping your vehicles in logos, QR codes, product images, etc. is that your message or brand is advertised wherever the vehicle travels or is parked! It is quite possibly the cheapest form of long-term advertising reach that you will find!

The other great thing is, wraps can be reversed and replaced with no damage to the vehicles! Talk to us if you have any questions.

Signcraft Vehicle Wrapping Service. Go on... you know you want to!

THE FESTIVE BREAK 2014-2015

Please note that we shall be closed for business Fri 19th December to Monday 5th January. We wish all our clients, followers and friends a very merry Christmas, a happy New Year and a prosperous 2015.

Business Signage Services

Signcraft is an established small business that provides quality printing services on all kinds of media to produce hoardings, flags, plaques, signboards and much more, including streamlined services for property boards for estate agents, property developers, management and lettings companies.

Their nationwide signage service includes transportation, erection and lighting systems.

The case studies on Signcraft’s website provide a small example of Signcraft’s business signage services, including:

• Large metal signage and hoardings in a busy London station 
• Fascias for Shops, Estate Agents and other commercial centres 
• Retail park and Shopping centre signage - covers a number of items from way-finding to banners to lighting: Bournemouth / Kent / Bedford
• Printed aluminium hoardings, large ‘landmarking’ signage and monoliths

Not to mention flags and flagpoles, vehicle graphics and a number of unusual projects for the film industry. Lots more interesting information in the Signcraft News section, too.

Get in touch on 01895 442768.

Commercial Property Agents: For Sale / To Let Boards

Busy Commercial Property Agents, Chartered Surveyors and Property Management Companies order their boards from Signcraft for a number of reasons:

• We provide a complete Commercial Agency board service throughout the UK & we  provide a fast turn-round.
• Our standard package for Commercial Property boards, For Sale boards and To Let boards includes site surveys, face-to-face meetings and our basic design service.
• We have an enthusiastic and well organised team ready to take care of every aspect of your sign order, from first receipt of your order to erecting your signage.
• Signcraft customers can place orders quickly and easily online and we will email confirmation of board installations, complete with photographs!

A leading signage company with two generations of experience, Signcraft has continually invested in new, high quality technology and diversified our service areas to ride fluctuations in the fortunes of various market sectors.

Gallery of Agency Boards

Contact Signcraft for a better all-round experience:

• Fast turn-round of Property Signboard orders
• Great value with an all in cost option to create the Board and Slips
• including erection and removal - Nationwide coverage
• Durable, modern, safe and environmentally sustainable products
• Bespoke design included when required - all layouts and proofs included in our costs
• Full range of property board services and products, from basic marketing boards to banners, flags and large format signage and hoardings.
• Print & deliver only or full erection service, as required.
• Members of the Safe Contractor scheme.

We are brilliant at this type of work! We track jobs, send photos of completed work, liaise with tenants and/or owners and collect and return keys.

What are you waiting for??? Call 01895 442768

Announcing New Vehicle Wrap Service

Signcraft is launching a new department, designing and applying vehicle wraps.

We will undertake to create wraps for both commercial vehicles and cars, offering a design-through-to-completion service.

Staff training has been completed and so has our first wrap project.

We are also launching a fresh graphic on our new fleet of vehicles, which will involve wrapping the vans and therefore advertising the quality of our new service.

We'll be sporting our new design soon. Do look out for the new Signcraft vans...

Signage & Hoardings in the Public Eye

We have a selection of photographs from around the London area that are good examples of our work being seen in public... here are a couple of examples:

Sloane Square, London

Signcraft teams printed and erected the hoardings for Boggi (men's contemporary Italian fashion) whilst work was going on behind the scenes to prepare their shop off Sloane Square in London. We also created internal signage.

Signcraft was part of the major corporate identity project undertaken by UK construction company, Osborne, creating logos for their offices and hoardings for display around their work sites. Details are on our website, see Signcraft's case studies.

Waterloo Station, London

As always, if you'd like to discuss your projects with us, contact Tony White (building signage) or Bob Colwell (graphic design)  on 01895 442768

Behind the Signs

Commercial and residential development:

Sign under construction.
Note that the sign will be extended on the right.

We have from day one specialised in large format marketing signage for the property sector and have noticed a distinct up-turn in orders along with the improvement of the economy, this work is Nationwide and often involves sending teams out for a week at a time, to cast foundations and build frames to support the signage.

This is usually hard and taxing work as the site conditions are often sparse and quite isolated. We have recently completed erecting large signage at sites in Swansea and Newport in South Wales.

Retail signage:

We have been fairly active in the area of retail signage, recently. Creating high end signage is enjoyable and demands a high degree of skill and innovation. From design to installation, we pride ourselves in being meticulous in every detail.Take a look at our services - which ones may interest you?

• Agency Development Signage
• Commercial and Industrial Signage
• Our comprehensive nationwide signage services

Or call us on 01895 442768.

Commercial and Residential Signage

The boom in converting commercial offices into residential apartments and hotels has been embraced by quite a few of our clients. Signcraft has recently completed signage for one such conversion in the centre of Reading.

Our client, in this instance, has created a superb environment in the heart of the city, with suites and rooms finished to an extremely high standard for modern apart-hotel living.

We were fortunate to be involved with signing the building, both internally and externally, aiding the design team and the architect to turn the façade of a fairly bland office block into an inviting and pleasant hotel.

Our signs included: soft drape banners, a typical reception canopy and a main identity sign to landmark the building. The building is artistically illuminated with coloured LED lighting and the signage has been illuminated with a blend of halo and fret cut illumination.

The interior signage was created in the client's now established style; simple yet effective informative and way-finding signs, designed to assist the flow of visitors and guests between floors as well as on each floor.

Signcraft is able to undertake a range of large or small signage projects, nationwide. Contact us to discuss your requirements 01895 442768.

♪ ♫ It's Fun to Shop at the RSPCA

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty for Animals originated in 1824 and became 'Royal' in 1840, thanks to Queen Victoria. Its primary mission is to prevent cruelty to animals: pets, working animals, farmed animals, wild animals and those in research.

Many of the their branches carry out their welfare work and there are over 200 RSPCA shops that help raise money for the charity.

Recently, following a decision to rebrand those shops to encourage customers to support their fundraising efforts, the RSPCA commissioned Signcraft to produce new signage and replace the shop fascias.

It's what we do... and if you'd like us to quote for your signage, please contact us on 01895 442768 or via the website: www.signcraft.co.uk

Enhancing Glass Panels and Doors with Corporate Branding

Natural light is recognised as important to the well-being of staff and, as a consequence, glass partitions are popular to divide large spaces in offices, restaurants and other establishments. Additionally, external covered spaces, including cloisters, are being made more useable by adding retractable glass enclosures.

Adding a company name or logo to the glass panels needs to be in keeping with the original reasons for using glass, whether those reasons are light-flow or aesthetic elegance. We offer a range of options at Signcraft, including glass manifestations. There is a practical aspect, too: clean glass is hard to see and hard on the nose if someone walks into them.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be a branding exercise but why not take advantage of a little extra publicity! For further details, contact Signcraft on 01895 442768

At the End of the Year

It has been a good year at Signcraft.

• Our residential estate agency board service has flourished and is currently one of our most buoyant departments.
• Commercial agency sign boards services are also gaining ground.
• Development signage for building sites, commercial and residential are also increasing favourably.

Best wishes from all at Signcraft for a happy, successful and prosperous 2014. We hope to be have the opportunity  to be of service to you.

Continuing the Movie Theme with Signcraft Projects

This video show-cases a very small collection of some very large printing, including hoardings around a cinema (of course!) to illustrate the varied work we do.

We have our in-house design studio, we can print high definition and very large sizes and we also install, erect or otherwise fix in place any monoliths, banners, lighting requirements and so much more. The projects in this collection include glass manifestations, vehicle graphics and external signage but we also do office art, wall art, display systems, flags, banners, way-finding and estate signage plus specialist traditional projects.

Maybe there'll be a sequel or trilogy... watch this space!

See our website for more about us and for your signs and signage requirements. Call us on 01895 442768

Carry On Printing, Mr Bond (Pinewood Studios)

One of our recent jobs was for Pinewood Studios, home to many famous films since the 1930s including the Carry On series, James Bond and over 150 other films and TV productions. To name but a few:

• Talk of the Devil (1939)
• The Blue Lagoon (1949)
• Genevieve (1953)
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)
• Superman (1978)
• Batman (1989)
• Mission: Impossible (1996)
• The Fifth Element (1997)
• Love Actually (2003)
• Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (2005)
• Mamma Mia (2008)
• Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows parts 1 & 2 (2010/11)
• Hugo (2011)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger tides (2011)
• Les Misérables (2012)
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
• The Hobbit: There & Back Again

We were busily printing imitation antique tiles for a film set, using our new ultra-violet flatbed printer - but we can’t tell you any more than that. We can show you a peek at the tiles, though, if you click on the link. Be sure to watch out for them on the silver screen! 
(E&OE)

Stickerwall!

Signcraft recently supplied an interactive wall display for Inspiral Design who are happy to let us use their project - see www.nuqta.com.

We produced a large sign panel with removable self-adhesive graphics for the general public to create messages and text, all as part of the world’s first user-generated mobile museum of Arabic photography and calligraphy.

View more of our completed project work on www.signcraft.co.uk.

Leading the High-Fidelity Digital Revolution

Signcraft is a friendly family run business that is serious about providing top quality service and signage, always investing in cutting-edge technology to produce the very best for our clients.

Better equipment means faster production and accurate high resolution printing to photographic standards. We aim to create the best quality hoardings and large print signage with timely, cost-effective service.

Call us with your requirements: 01895 442768

Agency Boards and Development Signage

The Signcraft services for property selling and letting agencies, surveyors and asset managers are fully comprehensive - our experience and expertise pre-dates many of our clients! It means that we can communicate effectively and efficiently, producing excellent results every time.

We provide a nationwide service, offering a wide range of signage from boards, banners and flags to monoliths. Estate Agents packages are available, tailored to meet specific needs from boards to displays and shop signage. Take a peek at some of our property marketing and development boards and estate agency signage case studies on our website, www.signcraft.co.uk

Cost effective, Energy saving, LED Signage

Illuminated signage is cost-effective, thanks to the use of light emitting diodes or LED technology. Low energy and longer lasting, LED illuminated signage can also be very effective.

Contact our design team with your requirements and we'll do you proud. Visit our Architectural and Industrial Signage website page.

• wayfinding signage
• logos and names on buildings
• estate agent signage
• and so MUCH more!