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  • About Artist Seraina Baumgartner – The ‘S’ in NGS

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  • CLEANLY PAINTED NUMERALS FOR PILLARS OR ROUGH STUCCO

    CLEANLY PAINTED NUMERALS FOR PILLARS OR ROUGH STUCCO Plaster and Stucco Stucco comes in various finishes and we can create perfect numbers no matter how textured the surface is. The finest selection of Listed and English Heritage styles to choose from.

  • Our Favourite Fonts: Max Miedinger and 10 leading Font Styles

    Our Favourite Fonts: Max Miedinger. Great Typefaces build reputations and have been an integral part of what makes us stand out as a London design signage studio. Well made letterforms and fonts have been essential to the development of the ‘reading-writing’ society for centuries. We don’t do ‘Dafont’ guys!! We […]

  • Most popular Hand Painted Sign writing by Nick & Seraina

    About our Purely Hand Painted sign Culture We live in a world saturated by the digital and Ai meme reproduction design. Our hand painted signs add charm and interest and a beating heart full of life, stories and creative ideas. So where is the comparisson? A hand designed and painted […]

  • How to order a Sign with NGS. Client First is our mantra.

    nickgarrettsigns@gmail.com How to order a Sign with London’s Genuine Lettering team NGS. A Gleaming Gold Leaf Service, and Letters… ALWAYS ON FORM. Tell us all about it! Communication is everything. We‘RE a top team Offering support and smart solutions. How to order a Sign with London’s Genuine Gold Leaf Lettering […]

  • The very talented Signmaster, David Partridge

    Recently I was privileged to be offered the late David Partridge’s collection of brushes donated by his daughter and her mother, David’s artist wife Liz, and daughters April and Isobel. This article was written with kind permission of his family. David was a classical sign writer of the traditional apprenticeship […]

  • Edward Johnston’s Underground Legacy Typefaces

    Signage Typographer Edward Johnston Going Underground… and beyond. . The Edward Johnston Journal: NGS Article … about this design legend. . About Edward Johnston, CBE (11 February 1872 – 26 November 1944) was a Scottish craftsman who is regarded as the father of modern calligraphy, in the particular form of […]

  • Home Page part 2:

    Covent Garden theatre-land show-stopping Tap images to Zoom-in A London made More Beautiful. Letter Painting for Offices, Home Interiors & Architecture. BY HAND We’re probably busy sign writing near you. Traditional sign painting, yet always ‘Fresh-New‘. With our Humble yet Beautiful Brushes, used on site.  From corner shops to Virgin […]

  • NGS: All our signs – Last 3 years of superb projects

    If you want a job doing ask a busy person… NGS are the busiest signwriters in the industry today. There’s a probably simple reason for it. 350 images of everything we love to do. We’re not done by a long mark. London painted wall Signs. NGS All our Signs

  • CASE: Damien Hirst Retrospective NGS

    CASE: Damien Hirst Retrospective NGS  From Sample to Finished walls . . Above: The first decent sample – Courtesy of artist Remi Rough, myself… and Frogtape. . . . . NGS: Diary of a huge Hand Painted Wall Art Mural project – Damien Hirst: THE TRINITY Room, The Tate Modern […]

  • NG Signs: add Creativity to yr New Retail performance… The London Sign Writer’s role explained

    NG Signs | Creativity In Retail | Nick Garrett . WE ARE ENTERING A TIME OF HUGE OPPORTUNITY . PAINTED SIGNS CAN WORK FOR ALL BUSINESSES . More than ever, meaningful typographic creativity is your brand’s lifeblood. NGS . . WELL DESIGNED LETTER STYLING TURNS HEAD Did you know that […]

  • London Roman Lettering: Traditional Signs of NGS London

    Faithfully restored and perfectly replicated Classical London Roman Lettering Nodding to the work of late Signmaster Richard Apps, Condensed Roman ‘NGS Cornelissen Typeface/Font’, Capitals by NGS. Order your Romans here zz PAINTERS OF THE FINEST ROMAN LETTERING IN THE WORLD LONDON’S TRADITIONAL ROMAN LETTERING MASTERS NGS RESEARCH A NEW LEVEL […]

  • Mid Century Type Specialist NGS London

    NGS Soho Mid Century Lettering Style – Breaking the mould NGS Soho Mid-Century Lettering NGS Soho Mid-Century lettering is shaped very much by post-war Britain, a tough period of recovery rebuilding, renewed hope, and a belief in bold new change and design. It emerged prior to a revolutionary era when […]

  • The next New Black is?? White… White gold

    The Next New Black? White… White Gold NGS colour mastery. ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL COLOUR BLACK New Black is?? White… White gold, White Platinum glass gilding by NGS London Meeting Piers Westenholtz in 1985 was an instatly fascinating experience. He wanted me to restore an ebonised painted chase lounge sofa frame. […]

  • The Next New Black is?

    The Next New Black? Old School NGS colour mastery. Meeting Piers Westenholtz in 1985 was an instatly fascinating experience. He wanted me to restore an ebonised painted chase lounge sofa frame. ”Here’s the recipe for the antique black mix Nick…” Decades later we still turn to this enbonised Black mix […]

  • Grounding (earthing) electromagnetic hygiene

    Grounding (earthing) as related to electromagnetic hygiene: An integrative review Isaac A Jamieson 1,? PMCID: PMC10105031  PMID: 36496151 Abstract There are a growing number of studies investigating how grounding (earthing) the body may benefit biological performance and aid the treatment of non-communicable diseases. Research also indicates how biological grounding initiatives can sometimes be […]

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