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Every job starts on the drawing board. Our in-house studio takes you from rough concept to CAD-accurate artwork and a 1:1 mock-up — so you sign off exactly what goes up, before we cut a thing.

How we design

Four ways we
get it right.

Hand-drawn templates
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Old-school instinct, before the screen.

Big jobs start with pencil and paper — proportions, sightlines and how a sign sits on the building, sketched to scale. It's the fastest way to get an idea right before a single file is opened.

Turnaround
Same week
Output
Scaled concept
Revisions
Until it's right
Cost
Inc. in quote
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The studio

Vector.
Pantone.
Production-ready.

A nice picture isn't artwork. We work to the standards the workshop actually needs — true-scale vectors, matched colours and clean files — so design flows straight into manufacture.

Vector Artwork
Scalable Illustrator artwork that prints, cuts and routs at any size without going soft.
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Pantone / RAL Match
Brand colours matched to reference and proofed before production. The colour you see is the colour that goes up.
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1:1 Mock-ups
Your design visualised to scale on a photo of the real site, so sign-off is on the finished look.
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CAD / CNC Files
Machine-ready cut data for built-up letters, trays and routed panels — drawn to the millimetre.
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Embroidery Files
Digitised stitch files for workwear, kept on record so every re-order matches.
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FAQ

The questions
everyone asks.

Design is built into the quote on most jobs we manufacture. Standalone artwork or brand work is quoted separately — we'll always tell you up front, never bill you by surprise.
Yes. Once it's paid for, the production artwork is yours — logo files, vectors and all. We keep a copy on record so re-orders and new sites match, but it belongs to you.
Absolutely. Send whatever you've got — a logo, a photo of the old sign, even a sketch on a napkin — and we'll rebuild it into clean, scalable artwork ready for any format.
We use AI tools to explore concepts and visuals quickly, then redraw the chosen direction as proper production artwork by hand. The fast bit is ideas; the accurate bit is always done properly.
As many as it takes to get it right within the agreed scope. We'd rather spend an extra round on screen than get it wrong on the wall — it's cheaper for everyone.
// Concept to sign-off

Send your idea.
See it mocked up.

A rough brief, a logo or a photo of the site is all we need. We'll come back with a concept and a 1:1 mock-up so you can see it before we make it.

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