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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
…cool Nick, is this your best price?

Is this your best price Nick?… A familiar question… and we have the right answer. Working with ‘Rise Cafe’ Beach style in Brockley, Lewisham. Price 420.00 Date Completed Sept 2022. Best price. Best job. Starting from 450.00 From a great ‘job done’, painting session on site – creating success. BUDGET […]
CASE: Damien Hirst Retrospective NGS

CASE: Damien Hirst Retrospective NGS From Mountains, Kids, Peckham Sample to the immaculate ‘Trinity’ 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: […]
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 […]
By eye by hand by heart

Introduction: By eye by hand by heart Seraina and I were talking about our process last night and we found a few things that stood out after excavating what been happening positively to our ‘roll through’ that makes us stand out, over the past half decade. Firstly is the whole […]
Soho Bold urban Sans Serif Sign writers NGS London

Soho – Sign Writing on the wall YOU CHOOSE. TOBACCO WHARF D1-2 OR DOCKERS GHOST D4-5? GOLDFINGER’S BALFRON TOWERS, POPLAR THE OLD BLUE LAST TASTE THE PRIDE From Urban Minimals, to Soho Classics. CORE TYPE URBAN BOLD FONTS SOHO TO SHOREDITCH Our solid state Sans Serifs and pure design experience. […]
Docklands, Spitalfields Market Type Face Sign Writing

Read time 7 min Urban Trad Signs – Docklands Sign Writing straight off the Brush YOU CHOOSE. TOBACCO WHARF D1-2 OR DOCKERS GHOST D4-5? GOLDFINGER’S BALFRON TOWERS, POPLAR THE OLD BLUE LAST TASTE THE PRIDE FOR TRUMAN From Urban Minimals, to Soho Classics. PUKKA URBAN BOLD TYPE SOHO TO SHOREDITCH […]