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Retail Signage – Bridging the Technology Gap Since 1976

Innovative Sign Makers UK If you think signage is outdated, think again. We’ve built up businesses for forty-five years and let us tell you: retail signage carries your brand, image and reputation almost single-handedly. Graffiti Design have manufactured signs and retail displays for some of the biggest names on the high street. We’ve pulled start-ups…

The Benefits of Temporary Signage

There’s a reason every single high street retailer features their own versions of temporary signage solutions, especially at festive times of the year. Whether it’s to announce sales, to alert others of safety concerns or to increase foot traffic, there are a host of ways temporary signage can benefit your business. At Graffiti Design, sign-makers…

5 TIPS TO GET WAYFINDING SIGNAGE RIGHT

Good wayfinding signage needs to engage with as well as inform the visitor. It should guide people and can be attractive, but most importantly, it must clearly inform. Although wayfinding projects are not always the most exciting of tasks, they are crucial to the integrity and safety of a building, so it critical that it…

A HISTORY OF SIGNS, SIGNMAKING & TYPES OF SIGNAGE

The importance of signage is hard to overstate in today’s society. One of the most powerful tools in commerce, signage too has its history. From road signs to hand-painted timber and LED-illuminated wayfinding signs, there has always been a need and a market for visual advertising tools to convey information, such as window graphics and…

Graffiti Design And Illuminated LED Signage – THEN & NOW

The story of Graffiti Design as a company is a bit of an odyssey, from tentative beginnings in a war-torn country to culminating in a multi-media enterprise in a highly digital world. Though we started with a single jig-saw and scalpel, then evolved to cutting-edge CNC and our very own innovative Gdi TRAX system, the…

Why Traditional Sign-Making Skills Must Be Handed Down

Sign-making requires the mastery of a great number of diverse skills, from signwriting to glass blowing. Signs date back to the early Greek and Roman times. They started off as simple graphic representations of a trade, shop or tavern, normally displayed outside commercial premises. They were pictorial, as most people were illiterate at the time….

3D External Weatherproof Retail Signage

Boardman Cycles commissioned smart new illuminated signs from us for their new premises in Evesham, one of the Cotswolds’ retail parks. (You might spot another of our high street logo designs for FAT FACE in the background as well.) Graffiti Design being known for halo lit LED letters in retail signage solutions, Boardman Cycles commissioned…

GdiTRAX: Sign Lighting System of the Future

Graffiti Design and the Rise of LED From trough lights to colour-changing bulbs, LED sign lighting is becoming ever more prevalent in signmaking. As a lighting source, LED lights are being used more and more, becoming extremely important to the signmaking industry and its customers alike.  But demand and customer requirements are ever-evolving and accelerating…

Unique Halo LED Neon Retail Signage For Unique UK Restaurant

Back in 2018, we installed a huge variety of both internal and outdoor signage for Happy Bird on Whiteladies Road, Bristol. As another brick and mortar business rather than digital brand positioning, this involved a combination of decorative LED neon lights and wall art, as well as corporate and retail signage, in order to best…