Team NGS: Freshly painted numbers in Notting Hill, London, by Nick and Seraina.
Your Hallmark Typographic Signwriters NGS:
Designing Type with that Retro style and cool ‘Modern Twist‘
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Renowned NGS Sign Craftsmanship with the extra in expertise, experience and prompt service.
ABOUT NICK
Charitable work – it’s all about giving.
Nick seen here marking out a mural panel created as tryptic for Agazzano Middle School in Piacenza Province Italy in 2019.
We are always willing to assist charitable donation projects for schools, hospitals and welfare homes.
We also work from the heart in the high street too: generosity and trust is what makes us tick… and the right team to work with.
I love our sign Nick … can you create our business cards and graphics?
Simon Mullins, Volta Do Mare, London.
Nick’s family history of master London lettering artists.
I trained with my grandfather and some of the country’s pre-eminent craftsmen, who have reinvigorated this ancient skill of sign writing. These artisans were intense, old school, not always easy to work with, but they were incredibly special, honest, gifted people, who always saw things in high contrast.
When I first got into signwriting in 1981 I thought most of the trade were either a painting stuff a bit over the top, tarty, gimmicky and circussy… then there were a few that just made things simple, clean, beautiful… I chose those as my path and influencers.
Nick Garrett
OUR MODERN LETTERING PRACTICE
Most days we are on site making somewhere special. We invite confidence with our great clients. based on our depth of skills and dedication.
Warmth and trust with my clients is very important to us: they know they have a very keen eye in NGS and forthright project steward, when working with us both… Seraina is the same and great at building that genuine connection. We always bring you some special little gift from our studio archives.
We look after our client’s business as we do our own.
NG
Our letters are never overdressed but always look impeccable….
GENUINE QUALITY COUNTS – FROM RAW MATERIALS, TO DELICIOUS DESIGN
Whenever our clients ask for ‘the character of hand painted signage’, I know they have come to us with the right priorities onboard.
Because we only use artisan techniques, tools and materials, to create genuinely unique work, we can say with confidence – your sign is going to work for you and build your name.
CONTINUALLY CONNECTING
Hand painted signs are alive and stand out from the very ordinary plastic and vinyl signs that blight many a high street.
In paint then, letters are talkative, convincing, always providing that memorable personal voice and client connection.
OUR RANGE OF SIGN SERVICES
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OUR BRAND NEW CLASSIC RESTORATION SERIES
We’re bringing back the lettering classics, in a modern format. Some of the most famous font styles of the 19th and 20th centuries housed in new streamlined styling. For the business that wants to recreate nostalgic sign memories in your own timeless way.
NGS’s coveted Custom Classic Series letters are synonymous with remarkable visual style.
Beginning a sign career with the birth of London pub revival in 80s, the distinguished, all gold style and signature gleam of gilded Roman Letters has inspired the most memorable identities in pub design.
In the years since exploding onto the sign revival scene, NGS has remained the choice of the most discerning signage commissioners, serving as the lens for emerging designers and client alike.
About the ‘S’ in NGS
Seraina Baumgartner
Letters and numbers have always fascinated me. One of the first things I consciously wanted to learn was how to write and draw letters. Seraina
Watching my mother typing at home mesmerized me. And my father had to sit with me at the kitchen table for hours and sketch out. It was also he who brought me a huge stack of Letraset sheets, stencils and all sorts of things to draw and erase from the office.
So I spent more hours at my little desk, filling paper after paper, while listening to Beatles records. Some of those tools are still at my desk and companions in my signwriting kit. And the Beatles are still on…
“I started my professional career in the classic Swiss way with an apprenticeship as a screen printer in Zurich.
The analogue printing process grabbed me from the first moment. I loved precision hand cutting masking film for stencils and mixing inks by eye. SB
Traditional Signwriting was not even in demand at the time. Signwriters where walking away from the craft and running vinyl cutters and digital printing machines.
After graduation I worked in different print studios. Unfortunately, screen printing was in decline. So I started to do some digital printing and vinyl cutting as well. Until the day I found myself as a full-time machine operator.
Pushing buttons and writing on keyboards.
I had to change something… and I did.
Seraina Baumgartner
LINKS
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Speak soon or get back to me when you’re ready,
Best and stay safe!
Nick Garrett
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