Signage Services in London
Design, manufacture and installation across the capital.
In London
A London signage company with its own workshop
We have been making signs since 2006 and we still make them ourselves. Fabrication, acrylic work, LED assembly, large format print and finishing all happen at our workshop at Marlow Bottom, and our own installation teams bring the work into London and fit it. Nothing gets passed to a trade supplier and handed on.
Our London office is at 152-160 City Road, EC1V 2NX, by appointment. From there we cover the whole capital, the City and West End, the fringe around Shoreditch and Clerkenwell, out to Canary Wharf and Stratford, and across to Hammersmith, Wembley and the southern boroughs. If your business has sites beyond London we install nationwide from the same workshop.
What we make and install
The range runs from a single set of door vinyls to a full illuminated shopfront and a whole building's wayfinding scheme. Because everything is made in one place, a reception logo, a directory board and a set of door signs all leave in the same colour, in the same finish, on the same delivery.
- Shop fascias, fascia trays and projecting signs
- 3D and built up letters, illuminated and halo lit
- Reception logos, logo walls and entrance plaques
- Totems, monoliths and external directory signs
- Internal and external wayfinding schemes
- Glass manifestation, privacy and solar film
- Wall graphics, printed murals and hoarding graphics
Products
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How we work in London
Every London job is really two jobs, the sign and getting to it. Loading restrictions, permit bays, service lift bookings, security clearance and building managers who want method statements and insurance in advance. We sort all of that at survey so the installation day is about fitting, not about arguing at a barrier.
London installs are Monday to Friday as standard, with occupied buildings done section by section. Fitting before opening, in the evening or at a weekend can be arranged on request, at extra cost. Our installers are directly employed and IPAF certified for work at height, we carry public liability insurance, and they take the old signage away when they leave. Illuminated work is tested in the workshop before it goes on the van, so it is not being commissioned for the first time on a cherry picker.
Coverage
We cover Greater London from the City Road office, with the manufacturing coming in from the Marlow Bottom workshop. The M4 and A40 corridors give us straightforward access into the west, and we work east and south across the river regularly. Multi site rollouts across the capital are handled as one programme with one contact.
Nearby areas
- The City
- Shoreditch
- Clerkenwell
- Canary Wharf
- West End
- Southwark
- Hammersmith
- Stratford
Who we work with in London
London gives us the widest spread of work we do. Corporate offices and their fit out contractors, retail and hospitality groups, property developers, landlords and managing agents, schools and colleges, gyms and clinics, and businesses running vans across the city.
- Offices, headquarters and serviced office operators
- Fit out contractors, workplace designers and architects
- Retail, restaurant and hospitality groups
- Developers, landlords and managing agents
- Schools, colleges and universities
- Gyms, clinics and healthcare providers
Portfolio
Recent work in London
Questions
Frequently asked questions
We manufacture. The workshop at Marlow Bottom handles metal fabrication, acrylic cutting and forming, LED build and testing, large format print, lamination and vinyl cutting. Buying in would mean longer lead times, weaker colour control and someone else deciding when your job is finished.
Yes, and a good share of our work is exactly that. We survey the sites as a batch, manufacture in one production run so the colour and finish are identical, and then schedule the installs around each site's trading hours. One project contact runs the whole programme from start to handover.
Two to three weeks for window and wall graphics. Four to six weeks for reception signage and built up letters, from artwork sign off. Longer for large fabricated or illuminated schemes. The survey usually adds a week at the front, and we give you a date rather than a vague range.
We can supply the drawings for an application if a site requires one for its signage. Plenty of jobs do not, particularly like for like replacements and internal work, and we will tell you at survey which side of the line yours sits on before it affects your timeline.
We do not offer a formal warranty, but if there is a problem with our work in the first 12 months, we come back and sort it. We do not run maintenance contracts, but we keep the drawings and artwork for everything we make, so if a sign is damaged later, a replacement matches the original.
Get a quote
Talk to us about your project
Send drawings, brand guidelines or photographs of the site and we will come back with a specification, a drawing and a fixed price. Call the London office on 0203 887 3094, the Marlow workshop on 01753 518 406, or email hello@onefourdesign.co.uk.