Signage design
services
Design intent to
documentation
Signage design is the part of a sign project that happens before anything gets cut or poured. We take a brand, a building, and a code book and turn them into drawings: concepts, elevations, sign type families, message schedules, location plans, and permit-ready submittal sets. That is the whole job, and it is all we do.
We don't fabricate and we don't install, so the shop that builds the signs and the city that reviews them work from the same set. Thirty years on the fabrication side taught us where signs go wrong, and we draw that out of the set before it leaves our hands.
Signs, wayfinding, environmental graphics, and the documentation that gets them permitted and built. Four disciplines, one coordinated set of drawings.
What we design
Exterior
signage
- Channel letters
- Monument signs
- Pylon signs
Wayfinding
& ADA
- Wayfinding signage
- ADA signage
- Sign program management
Environmental &
interior graphics
- Lobby signage
- Supergraphics & wall graphics
- Branded environments
Documentation
- Permit submittals
- Shop drawings
- Master sign programs
Who we work with
Sign companies
White-label design and documentation for shops busy building. We draw, you fabricate, and your client never knows we were involved.
Architects & designers
Signage and wayfinding documented to sit inside your set, on your schedule, drawn to the standard the rest of your drawings hold.
Facilities & property teams
Wayfinding and sign standards for campuses, portfolios, and multi-building sites that have outgrown the signs they started with.
Brands & retailers
Sign programs that hold the brand across every location and bend to each local code, without ever losing the look you built.
The questions clients actually ask
Didn't find your question? Ask us directly — straight answers, no runaround.
- What does a signage design studio actually do?
- We design signs and wayfinding systems and produce the drawings used to build and permit them. We work like the architect of the sign program: we make the plans, and fabricators and installers carry them out.
- Do you design exterior building signs like channel letters and pylons?
- Yes, and it's the largest share of what we draw. Channel letters, pylons, wall and fascia signs, monuments, and post-and-panel all live under exterior signage design.
- Do you fabricate or install signs?
- No, and that is deliberate. We stay independent of any one shop's equipment and pricing, so the drawings spec what the project needs and any qualified fabricator can bid the same set.
- How do you price signage design work?
- By scope. A single storefront sign drawn and documented runs a few thousand dollars, and a multi-building wayfinding program with full documentation runs higher. We quote a flat fee against a defined scope after one conversation, so you know the number before we start.
Good signage starts
with a conversation.
Every project is different. Let’s talk about yours.