As part of our library interiors offer, we give each library a unique and exciting contemporary guiding package. The signage work is integral to each project and work on it begins at the tender stage when ideas and layouts are first discussed.
Many factors come into play in designing appropriate signage: the type of building, the size of building, the lighting; the geographical location; the user groups; the colour scheme; the category of stock.
Opening the Book signage packages offer clear navigational references to customers. We can also produce decorative graphics to promote library services in a customer-centred way. We work with a talented pool of designers to create original, exciting and attractive graphics to send strong messages about who you are and what you do.
The end result is the icing on the cake for a library with a new look – the signage does what it says and more.
Examples of signage designs
Graphic end panels in Ashford Library, Surrey
Illustrations from Can You Catch A Mermaid? used with author's permission to create attractive graphics in the children's section in Ashford Library
The use of digital wallpaper establishes different themes in each pod of Orchard Park Community Primary School library, Cambridgeshire - the forestscape features in the Ecology and Nature pod
The Science and Technology pod at Orchard Park has an urban feel
High adventure in the Reading Room pod
Lightbox graphics create an eyecatching retail-style display wall in High Street Library, Bolton
Full-colour library floor-plan helps customers navigate the new library layout at Yate, South Gloucestershire
Yate Library plan in situ
Series of bold panels guide the way upstairs to Wickersley Library, Rotherham
Wall-hung stock layout map atSwansea Central Library
Swansea Central Library floor guide
Artist-designed graphics for Teen and Children's areas
Graphic for 11-14s area
11-14s graphic in situ in Swansea Central Library teen section
Exciting graphic for 6-11s
Very young readers' graphic
Standard subject bay headers
A design is carried across all sizes of sign required - use of colour differentiates the areas of stock
Opening the Book designed new signage for existing shelving as well as for the new units in the Barbican Library, Corporation of London
Bilingual subject header signage
Involving library users in promotional graphics
Welcome sign using photos of Deanshanger customers in the library, including their oldest borrower
Graphic end panels use photos and quotes from Widnes Library users to sell the sizzle of reading
Wall-mounted vinyl lettering and artist-designed graphics on canvas in Swansea Central Library