Lobby sign design
The handshake on the wall
People decide things in lobbies. A candidate decides whether the company is what the website claimed, a client decides whether the invoice makes sense, and they do some of that deciding while staring at the wall behind reception. A lobby sign that's crooked, undersized, or peeling at one corner says more than the mission statement mounted next to it.
We design lobby signs as architecture, not decals: the right material against the actual wall, the right scale for the sightline, lighting that flatters both the logo and the room. Then we draw it for the shop. It's the front door of our environmental & interior graphics work.
Scaled elevation
The sign on the actual wall at true scale, so the size decision is made on evidence.
Materials and finishes
Specified against the interior palette, with samples called out where the finish is the design.
Mounting and blocking
Standoffs, cleats, or studs detailed for the actual wall construction, with blocking flagged for the GC.
Power and lighting
Conduit path, driver location, and service access drawn wherever the sign is lit.
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.
Lobby signs, answered
Didn't find your question? Ask us directly — straight answers, no runaround.
- What does a lobby sign cost?
- Fabricated and installed, most land between $1,500 and $10,000, and the spread is materials and lighting. Flat-cut acrylic letters on standoffs sit at the low end, and a halo-lit metal logo on a backlit feature wall sits at the top. Our design fee is a small slice of that, and it's the slice that keeps the expensive part from being sized wrong for the wall.
- Which materials should we use?
- The ones your interior is already speaking. Brushed metal against warm wood, painted acrylic against concrete, edge-lit glass against a dark feature wall. The sign shouldn't match the brand guide alone, it has to match the architecture it lives with.
- How big should the logo be?
- Sized to the sightline, not to the wall. The read that matters usually happens at the entry door or the elevator, somewhere between 15 and 40 feet out, and the logo gets scaled to land at that distance without shouting at the person standing under it.
- Can we get a backlit sign on an existing wall?
- Usually, and the drawing is what makes it painless. Halo lighting needs power behind the sign and a little depth for the glow, so we detail the blocking, the conduit path, and the wall condition up front. On a wall that can't be opened, low-voltage and edge-lit options get most of the effect with far less surgery.
- Who fabricates and installs it?
- Any qualified shop, and that's deliberate. We design and document, the set is spec-complete, and your fabricator or ours can bid it without guessing. We don't build the sign, which is exactly why the drawing has to say everything.
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