It’s perhaps ironic that there are so many interior signing and wayfinding systems available to designers and sign manufacturers, that it’s hard for either to know which way to turn when looking for one to suit the needs of a particular project.
In pursuit of something genuinely individual, Shaun Bennett, and his team at Blackpool based Links Signs and Graphics (LSG), were approached by a design agency to produce and install a custom fabricated interior signing solution that the agency had conceived as part of works undertaken at EightyOne Central in Blackpool.
LSG first wrapped 10mm thick quality foamed PVC blanks in Metamark MD5 printed on the company’s Mimaki JV-33 and then a gloss laminate. Next, satin chromed stand off locators were installed and 5mm clear acrylic plates with flame polished edges were mounted over the printed panels. On the reverse of the plate, applied Metamark M7 lettering provides the detailing. The result is as individual as the print itself.
Signing systems’ designers typically try to minimise the system’s overall component count so as to reduce complexity and manufacturing cost. As a consequence, the output the system ultimately produces can look like the product of a kit of parts and, with some contemporary systems, the sign arguable dominates the message. However, LSG’s fabricated signs have a flavour of the familiar, but have an unmistakably bespoke design.
