Hand Painted Signage and Brand ID
ALL BY HAND
”We specialise in 100% hand-painted sign design, sign painting & gold leaf signwriting, delivering the complete city sign painting service”.
ID FOR ALL SETTINGS
NGS celebrate accessibility, and hope you find the perfect sign writing solution on these pages.
Adore, and enjoy.
We create your graphic Logos and ID
LOGO/FONT CREATION
House and Home names and numbers – the perfect finishing touch.
HOUSE & HOME
Your sign team here at NGS is Seraina and Nick. Top Typographic industry pros with a wealth of experience.
ON THIS PAGE: OUR TEAM
A team that aims to be absolutely on it.
London’s Best Dressed Crusader Lettering Art.
Our growing catalogue of our recent and past work
New projects, case histories, from a contemporary, Roman inspired, city of London.
NGS’s Seraina at work. The woman artists’ special creative narrative adds an important edge to NGS today.
REPAINTING THRIVING LONDON CITY SIGNS
NGS
Bespoke London Lettering
Our goal is to create great Lettering
… and make London more Beautiful
NGS Sign Co. specialising in hand-lettered design, with clients across the world.
Booking is very easy. Start with a call or hit our WhatsApp/Contact page.
If you have an exciting project and ideas let’s chat about all possibilities.
LONDON: Working in the Global design hub
Remembering London 25 years ago, starting out in my early career, very few cafes served espresso, or set out al terrazzo tables, and Pizza came with pineapple and milk-shake.
Today, London is a global capital reinvented: from our design perspective, fabulously alive.
NGS STUDIO HISTORY
1986-2023: THEN AND NOW
Studio Original Location:
Wandle Workshops, Wandsworth, SW18.
Main Projects/Clients: Allied Breweries, Watney Brewery Isleworth.
Not much has changed in approach other than growing with experience and deepening the interest in our art.
Below: my first pub for Watneys painted originally in c1984. Still there today.
IN THE MOMENT: FOCUS
Nick Garrett Signwriting | AKA ‘NGS’
Three decades of sig painting and design, +2000 projects later, the studio has been commissioned across 4 continents, working with governments, master-planners, developers, hotel groups, corner shops, renowned chefs, home-grown retailers and start-ups to reinvent the way we read modern yet classical signage experiences.
TYPORIGINATORS
NGS works inclusively across defining categories. The studio creates, designs and owns fine brand signage; founder is a leading voice of the industry, passionately shaping letters for those with vision.
NEW CATEGORIES – SEWN & BUILDT ON STYLE
NGS’s brands define their category and add continually to their custome catalogue.
We adhere to the mantra that style will always overshadow fashion. The studio’s proprietary design process delivers signwritten type that stands the test of time.
NO ORDINARY TYPE
Each project, font creation or product is an extraordinarily crafted piece of artwork.
Always made for one and all.
MEET SERAINA THE ‘S’ IN NGS:
Seraina Baumgartner
SPECIAL PEOPLE MAKE ESPECIALLY BEAUTIFUL THINGS.
Hailing from Zurich (the home of great type, pointy rocks and chocs).
The ‘S’ in NGS: officially known as the Gold Goddess – because of her beautiful Italian gilding across London.
Seraina specialises in gold leaf work and also hand painted type and lettering.
She excels at traditional sign writing and gilding, creating our bespoke signage, original art pieces and limited edition artworks.
Her family roots in Italy, add to a design accent that imbues that zestful, cultural style. Recently she has a font titled after her ancestral family name of Parietti.
SERAINA: EXPERTISE + SKILLS
Seraina’s favourite areas of sign practice include: custom typographic designed, glass heirloom, gift-line art-works.
Along with Gold Leafing to transoms and bespoke sign designs for shop windows… she pretty much covers it all… usually in gold.
OUR CLIENTS
Loved by.
From BB King to King Charles II | just love getting it right.
