ORIGINS
Around the same time Saatchi got started in early 80s, Nick Garrett, a young south London fella, got started up his ladder, just down the street in Soho. Been there ever since.
Signs for over 100 leading London brands.
For Over 30 years.
Adding Beauty and Accomplishent
– you’ll get an exquisite result, something really special.
Nick is kind and goes the extra mile for his clients.
… quick service and very reasonable prices, very happy customer and highly recommend”
– so happy you suggested that design Nick”
Means No Ordinary Type
London's Greatest Painted Signs
You can find lots of proud examples of our fab work across all London, showing off our wonderful client’s’ businesses with our undeniably beautiful letters and smart, fresh design!
All styles of numbers designed for transoms, pillars, walls and gates. painted in the same London way for 150 years.
Put it simply our shapes are the finest because of the special English Heritage archive fonts we have created in our studio.
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Our full range of gilded numbers and titles in this wonderful gallery page.
Our evergreen gold leaf work is made the same way since the Victorian great historic era. The fine skills, tooling and materials conbine to give you the best crafted gold work in the world.
Way t’ go! Working for the largest corporates such as Amazon, Facebook and AstraZeneca took our design practice to new heights.
e apply this experience to all our workplace client team journey and experience settings, marking us as award winning collaborators.
Fantastic to work with World champions and Olympians on there work out walls and venues. 12X3 boxing Gym, Repton, Dance West, Good Good Yoga and Gymbox add up to a catalogue to inspire.
Honours boards have grown to become an incredibly important part of our work. Giving back to those we owe a great deal to is a special place to be.
Our archive of classical London fonts, created by hand by Nick, gives each project the perfect match and standard.
Restoration projects give us the opportunity to bring back to life extraordinary signs and objects.
We use age old recipes to revive and conserve items in the most stable precise manner.
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MAKing LONDON
BEAUTIFUL
About us...
Busy climbing our ladders, crafting lettering for our great clients all over town – all 100% hand made – all 100% loved.
But it’s all the things done at design level, on the inside, that add up to the powerful presence of an NGS sign.. detail and artistry.
By Eye and by Heart
All the things you see on these pages comes from our special passion, eye-to-hand skills… and most importantly, our big, open minded hearts.
A lot of all weather, hard work and ongoing design and typographic research.
And yes, we’d love to paint you an incredible sign.
Nick & Seraina. N
Central London,
Retail+Venue Signs.
LONDON'S BEST DRESSED LETTERS
