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We have just completed the manufacture and installation of our first City Electrical Factors signage at the Brighton West Branch. We were approached by CEF back in February and competed in a tender for the works. We were awarded the signage work based on our competitive pricing, our extensive knowledge and experience. It is a great start for Graffiti Design within City Electrical Factors, as the retailer has over 360 sites in the UK.

We have secured a further 9 sites and are looking at 10 beyond that, with a possibility of covering the whole of the South East’s City Electrical Factors branches.

The signage is clean and smart, with simple and effective imagery and wording. Red ACM panels with cast vinyl, flat cut white acrylic letters and a halo illuminated logo with digitally printed contravision made up the front elevation of the branch. The install engineers also erected a 3 metre monolith at the entrance to the trading estate, with cast vinyl detailing on the front.

Our relationship with City Electrical Factors has been taking to another level with the install of the new signage at CEF Brighton West, as before we were a customer of theirs, and now the favour is returned. CEF Chichester is now under way in the factory with pushed through illuminated lettering, and Littlehampton should not be far off after that.

Arun Estates, one of our biggest clients has now given us the go ahead for the Isle of Wight exterior signage rebrand of their trading name division Pittis. There are 7 sites on the island, and we will now be going into manufacture of all external signage for them in the coming days.

Bruce Pestell, director and account manager for Arun Estates, has been working closely with the estate agency on the designs and specifications of signage for a number of months, and at the beginning of February we were given the all clear for manufacture.

Pittis follows on from the complete signage rebrand of Ward & Partners in Kent, and the other Douglas Allen and Cubitt & West sites that we have completed in the last few years. The all new specification includes painted aluminium panels, with built up painted aluminium letters, all externally illuminated with our own LED trough light, very similar to the current spec. of signage for the other Arun Estates sites.

There will be an interior refurbishment of all the 7 sites, and all the interior graphics, branding and signage will soon follow on from the external signage.

What a great way to start 2013! We have just been awarded the museum interpretation contract for Brighton and Hove Albion FC’s new museum at the American Express Community Stadium. The contract includes museum interpretation, signage, way-finding, graphics and branding.

Plans for the museum have been floating about ever since the stadium was built, and was originally intended to be in place for the opening of the Amex back in the summer of 2011. However, the club has been a bit busy recently with all the expansions and new training ground plans, so it was put on the back burner.

However I can now happily say that works are due to start and the new museum should be operational by the end of May 2013, allowing fans to enjoy the famous high points of the clubs 112 year history.

We were approached by BHAFC regarding the museum, and then introduced PLB to the football club. PLB is a heritage design consultancy, who we worked with extremely closely with on the Basing House Ruins Project where we provided much museum interpretation. The club were delighted with the proposals set out by PLB, and there after we successfully tendered for the works and manufacture is planned for February/March. We have good knowledge and experience now within the museum interpretation field, after projects such as Lewes Castle, Havering Museum and Basing House Ruins.

It has been another fantastic year at Graffiti Design. In fact, it has been record breaking. In 2011 we posted a turnover of just over £1.1million, a company record, and this year that sum as reached to over £1.4million. The highest sales figure ever for the company in its 36 year history.

The hard work, dedication and high levels of competence from all the staff has really made 2012 a great year for the company. Working with our major blue chip clients, Brighton & Hove FC, Arun Estates, Fat Face and Monsoon Accessorize has driven Graffiti skywards and we look forward to an even better 2013, and of course all the smaller local projects that we thoroughly enjoy.

With the planned expansion of our Head Office factory expected to begin in the coming year, production and services will grow along with the company and the client base. We were named as runner-up in Sign Company of the Year 2012 by Sign & Digital along with winning the Multiple Sign Project of the Year 2012 for the Community Stadium. It is fantastic that the efforts of the team are paying off and are being recognised throughout the industry.

We would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas, and a prosperous New Year, from all the team at Graffiti Design.

Graffiti Design has now completed the full signage re-brand for Shires Funeral Directors; trading name of CPJ Field & Co Ltd. Shires is the latest addition to the ever expanding company, which now covers 9 counties across southern England, with 36 individual sites.

CPJ Field has a prestigious history and has been family run ever since the company was founded back in 1690. The Field family has been providing funeral services since and has assisted in funerals such as the Duke of Wellington’s in 1852, Queen Victoria’s in 1901 and King Edward VII’s in 1910.

Six separate Shires sites were completed over the last few months. Luton, Dunstable, Bedford, Kempston, Letchworth and Baldock which are all in Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire are under the Shires name.

The specification for CPJ Field signage consists of aluminium fascia panels powder coated in the rich CPJ Field purple, with flat cut white acrylic text and premium cast vinyl to display the artwork. Reverse cut etched window vinyl completes the look of a sophisticated and welcoming store which represents the branding of the historic company very well.

We are truly humbled to be associated with a company such as CPJ Field, and it is always a pleasure to complete signage works for them. New signage for many other sites are planned and we are looking forward to providing CPJ Field and its other trading names with the high-end signs next year. For more information on C.P.J. Field & Co. Ltd. please visit www.cpjfield.co.uk