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Eye Candy at Bunga Bunga case London – NGS

Eurovision Club sign case London – NGS

Here is a quick photo case of our flash splash for Bunga Bunga disco club in Battersea.

NGS project artists here are: Jack Hollands and Nick Garrett

Below: diffused spray effect

It was really cold and after an hour right at our backs 3 huge reverse cycle air con units started up, blowing FREEZING air into our kidneys!! Time to move inside!!

Minus 3 degs in Battersea … brrrrr

Inside and out of the freezing sleet was much better but the board was a bit flippy ahubba hubba wobbleboard – Rolf Harris style … but we got it under control and stitched in the detailing with a fine sable No 00 brush to the globe which completely transformed the piece..

Finally I lay in the shading and slapped on Glow in the Dark phosphorous paint to all white areas and the job was done!

Jack did the double coat and stars which got us in the local (for a half pint) by 8.30pm.

Tonal transition on the mirror tile details created the sensation of light and 3D

Nick Garrett – Design, layout, all paint, detailing Jack Hollands – tech assist draw up and double coating Silvio Berlusconi – toilet cleaner

Traditional Signwriter Nick Garrett

This website will show what I do, what I am currently working on and detail on how I do it…

If you are looking for visually stunning traditional signwriting, you may have just found the solution… here is my complete Traditional London based UK wide sign service, made genuinely by hand – since 1981.

As part of my service, start-up or up-and-running, I can assist you with logo re-creation, sign design, colour schemes and layout options.

My 30 years signage experience will really help you spot best visual solutions and keep you on time and inside budget.

I provide the complete bespoke professional smart service, which includes vectorised digital scanning, plotted layouts and finally detailed and painted by hand, replicating exactly the logo you require – with the added traditional character you can only get from the sign artists brush.

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New Vintage signs: Nick Garrett signwrites the new Ted Baker Knightsbridge store

Traditional signwriting around Vintage Retro London City – NGS

Inc LATEST UPDATES!

2012 was a great year for variation, here’s the pick of some of the sensational, visually striking signs I made.

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Miami Ink arrive in Notting Hill opening their fabulous vintage shop in Blenheim Cres, Ami James does the BBC talk.

FROGZ Natural Frozen Yoghurt bar, Brick Lane – 20 Hanbury Street -

Distress and aged peeled effect panel and shop front .

Zucono Artisan Ice Cream, 16 Camden Passage.

2 coats 3 cut ins, antique scumble wash, distress and aged peeled effect panel.

Very pleased as it jumps across the street!

For all your sign enquiries talk to NGS

Nick or Pamela: 07951509238

Seymour Place

Bermondsey

Beauchamp Place

Great Eastern Street

Ted Baker Vintage Ribbon mural project

Brompton Road Shop – Nick Garrett Signwriter

Brompton Road

All designs above Barry Wylie Concept, and Nick Garrett, style crunch and layout…

Painting in the banner colours and details

Day 1: Base coats, florets and outlines in

VINTAGE SHOP SIGNS

TED BAKER VINTAGE BANNER PROJECT

STYLE TEXT fills – Day 2

Consideration: A fair bit of lush red carpet about, TB lead designers Barry and Lou hinted at inclusion of some regal reds, so I decided to bold up the shadow with a scarlet glow offset…

A lot of micro beautifying going on too…

Tea break – a very important part of the day

I limit myself to just 3 pints of London Pride ale a week, so tea is a precious pit-stop!

Local Scene

Harrod’s donning the red…

… and green…

Where ever I work I always check out the local scene… great Fish n Chips at the Clipper pub and Cappuccino at Cafe Gran… back to work.

TED BAKER VINTAGE BANNER PROJECT

AREA 2 – Day 3: THE DISTRESSED PILLAR main entrance

The blank canvas…

Above: Ted Baker interior designers wanted a distressed finish - created by me for entrance pillar. Same paint finish tech used here as for Designers Guild collections, based on peeled stucco.

In progress…..

The retro font is painted to look worn and a touch eccentric… or do I mean pure kitch!?

FINISHED

Distressed and beautiful!

For all your sign enquiries talk to NGS

Nick or Pamela: 07951509238

Contact Nick – NGS, traditional hand painted signwriters

For the classic shop sign, glass painting, mural art and anything else please feel free to contact me for any further info, advice or ideas:

+44 (0)7831173396

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SKYPE nickgarrett2828

Thanks for your enquiry… will get back to you within 24 hrs

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Nick Garrett – Typeface Design – making ideas work

Typeface Design – making ideas work

London sign writer Nick Garrett

Logo design is a crucial skill for me as it focuses a host of useful typographic and creative skills: technical thinking and creativity combined.

Inspiration breeds success.

It is the difference between being a great sign-writer and a top sign pro.

Above: New Brand ID NGS

Gill Sans is a tremendous English font based entirely on the classical structure of Roman serif. Ingenious sans serif.

We are a clever lot…

Hope you like your hatchling NGS sign concept…

Below: Kerning guide for hand drawn layout

London sign writer Nick Garrett

Motif Magic – Traditional signwriters London NGS

Motif Magic – creative signwriting, London NGS

By London sign-writer Nick Garrett

Decorative motif is making a resurgence these days and frankly I love it! As a signwriter you just love work the is creative and fun… here are few recent motifs I’ve got my brush around lately.

We are getting a lot of request for decorative murals which is exactly where we are at. Vintage, Retro or Modern we can create you next dynamic sign exactly to the design visual or architectural drawing – you brand will be digitally plotted and then painted by hand with 2 durable coats of specialist sign enamel. Combining digital and analogue in the best possible way.

Contact me for any further info about my bespoke sign painting service.

Floral mural sample for POD London

For Ted Baker

Working on a selection of Italian painted motif samples for glass gilding, verre eglomise work.

This incredible material and gilding process is now winning me some new fans and links into interior decoration sector.

It’s all about the magic in the design studio. .. the right material inspiration and passion.

NGS Glass gilding West End and Central London

Parvin Fascia Beauchamp place – Nick Garrett signs

Wrote this fascia for court dressmaker Stewart Parvin in Beauchamp Place under some pressure… the fascia was heavily glossed and with the wettest April/May on record the paint was not bone dry!!

Hmmm.. hard work… but client happy and a great result I think you’ll agree.

POD: Sans Serif Poetica sign lettering Nick Garrett

The brief was to create a signwriter’s sans serif ’Victorian’ font-face with a modern feel… in subtle varied hand… a poetic theme.

The draft took a good 4.5 hrs to sketch up because of the tight spacing balance between the front 2 fascias… and the final painting whistled along in just 4 hours.

Above: Click on image to enlarge and you will see slight differnces between letters, little wobles… oddities and eccentricities… all balanced to POD’s brand ID.

Below: The Photoshop kerned and distorted artwork which formed the Fonts style base.

Drafting up

A welcome break in the rainiest drought ever known! Blue skies in Queen Victoria St.

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Traditional signwriters London – About Nick Garrett Signwriter – Bloglink

Welcome

I graduated as portrait painter in 1981 and started my first sign shop out of my art studio, Garrett Fine Signs, Battersea.

Above: Beginnings – Signwriting the fleet of Cityrama Tour buses, 1980′s

I really enjoyed working in graphics and typography, my grandfather was a letter cutter so it’s in my genes. Making some cold calls quickly won some great clients, who are still good buddies today. I found myself specialising in creative sign writing (from 1981-1990), to 2 national Breweries creating thousands of pub signs, and at the age of 22. through a lot of soul searching and hard work I was being regarded as a top quality writer… though for me it was always more of a constant battle for perfection.

… the magical ingredient you get when using NGS hand written sign writing - quality communication.

Today I have returned to working out of Battersea, still proudly producing some of the nicest creative sign solutions in Central London. I hope you are inspired by the varied projects I have displayed here – feel free to contact me and have a chat anytime.

View our Client Quality Charter

Above the new hand painted shop sign for Sylvanian Families, London.

Why a resurgence in the Hand Painted?

A hand painted sign speaks volumes for most quality niche products and will genuinely build client loyalty trade and local business turnover – both the lifeblood of retail success.

It says many things especially attention to detail...

When you watch me making your sign a reality it will look easy (unless it’s raining!)… there is a poetry in the writing. Easy?… an illusion purely down to my years spent up the ladder and the joy when wielding a paint laden writer’s brush!

Nick Garrett, NGS

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My work includes

LETTERING FASCIAS, FREE STANDING SIGNS, GLASS GILDING, GILDING, GRAPHICS AND DECORATIVE MURALS

PRIVATE CLIENTS, GALLERIES, RETAIL, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & BRAND

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Case Histories Testimonials NGS Website

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Traditional signwriters London: Pinterest Nick Garrett

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Posts Tagged ‘Brand design’

Eurovision Club sign case London – NGS

Here is a quick photo case of our flash splash for Bunga Bunga disco club in Battersea.

It was really cold and after an hour right at our backs 3 huge reverse cycle air con units started up, blowing FREEZING air into our kidneys!! Time to move inside!!

Minus 3 degs in Battersea … brrrrr

Inside and out of the freezing sleet was much better but the board was a bit flippy ahubba hubba wobbleboard – Rolf Harris style … but we got it under control and stitched in the detailing with a fine sable No 00 brush to the globe which completely transformed the piece..

Finally I lay in the shading and slapped on Glow in the Dark phosphorous paint to all white areas and the job was done!

Jack did the double coat and stars which got us in the local (for a half pint) by 8.30pm.

Tonal transition on the mirror tile details created the sensation of light and 3D

This website will show what I do, what I am currently working on and detail on how I do it…

If you are looking for visually stunning traditional signwriting, you may have just found the solution… here is my complete Traditional London based UK wide sign service, made genuinely by hand – since 1981.

As part of my service, start-up or up-and-running, I can assist you with logo re-creation, sign design, colour schemes and layout options.

My 30 years signage experience will really help you spot best visual solutions and keep you on time and inside budget.

I provide the complete bespoke professional smart service, which includes vectorised digital scanning, plotted layouts and finally detailed and painted by hand, replicating exactly the logo you require – with the added traditional character you can only get from the sign artists brush.

Traditional signwriting around Vintage Retro London City – NGS

Inc LATEST UPDATES!

2012 was a great year for variation, here’s the pick of some of the sensational, visually striking signs I made.

FROGZ Natural Frozen Yoghurt bar, Brick Lane – 20 Hanbury Street -

Distress and aged peeled effect panel and shop front .

Zucono Artisan Ice Cream, 16 Camden Passage.

2 coats 3 cut ins, antique scumble wash, distress and aged peeled effect panel.

Very pleased as it jumps across the street!

For all your sign enquiries talk to NGS

Nick or Pamela: 07951509238

Ted Baker Vintage Ribbon mural project

All designs above Barry Wylie Concept, and Nick Garrett, style crunch and layout…

Painting in the banner colours and details

Day 1: Base coats, florets and outlines in

VINTAGE SHOP SIGNS

TED BAKER VINTAGE BANNER PROJECT

Tea break – a very important part of the day

I limit myself to just 3 pints of London Pride ale a week, so tea is a precious pit-stop!

Local Scene

TED BAKER VINTAGE BANNER PROJECT

AREA 2 – Day 3: THE DISTRESSED PILLAR main entrance

The blank canvas…

Above: Ted Baker interior designers wanted a distressed finish - created by me for entrance pillar. Same paint finish tech used here as for Designers Guild collections, based on peeled stucco.

In progress…..

The retro font is painted to look worn and a touch eccentric… or do I mean pure kitch!?

FINISHED

Distressed and beautiful!

For all your sign enquiries talk to NGS

Nick or Pamela: 07951509238

Traditional Classical Signwriters London, Artwork, Vintage Fonts,

Murals, Gilding,

Custom Typeface design, Brand design, logo creation

For the classic shop sign, glass painting, mural art and anything else please feel free to contact me for any further info, advice or ideas:

Typeface Design – making ideas work

London sign writer Nick Garrett

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London sign writer Nick Garrett

Motif Magic – creative signwriting, London NGS

By London sign-writer Nick Garrett

Decorative motif is making a resurgence these days and frankly I love it! As a signwriter you just love work the is creative and fun… here are few recent motifs I’ve got my brush around lately.

Contact me for any further info about my bespoke sign painting service.

Floral mural sample for POD London

For Ted Baker

Working on a selection of Italian painted motif samples for glass gilding, verre eglomise work.

This incredible material and gilding process is now winning me some new fans and links into interior decoration sector.

It’s all about the magic in the design studio. .. the right material inspiration and passion.

NGS Glass gilding West End and Central London

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The brief was to create a signwriter’s sans serif ’Victorian’ font-face with a modern feel… in subtle varied hand… a poetic theme.

The draft took a good 4.5 hrs to sketch up because of the tight spacing balance between the front 2 fascias… and the final painting whistled along in just 4 hours.

Welcome

I graduated as portrait painter in 1981 and started my first sign shop out of my art studio, Garrett Fine Signs, Battersea.

… the magical ingredient you get when using NGS hand written sign writing - quality communication.

Today I have returned to working out of Battersea, still proudly producing some of the nicest creative sign solutions in Central London. I hope you are inspired by the varied projects I have displayed here – feel free to contact me and have a chat anytime.

Above the new hand painted shop sign for Sylvanian Families, London.

Why a resurgence in the Hand Painted?

A hand painted sign speaks volumes for most quality niche products and will genuinely build client loyalty trade and local business turnover – both the lifeblood of retail success.

It says many things especially attention to detail...

When you watch me making your sign a reality it will look easy (unless it’s raining!)… there is a poetry in the writing. Easy?… an illusion purely down to my years spent up the ladder and the joy when wielding a paint laden writer’s brush!

Nick Garrett, NGS

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My work includes

PRIVATE CLIENTS, GALLERIES, RETAIL, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN & BRAND

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