Integrated Wayfinding, Graphics & Art Commissions

An integrated approach to wayfinding, art commissions and graphic interventions - a collection locally designed, handmade and curated especially to foster a sense of place for a Grade 2 listed former brewery in Aldgate East. A clever use of found materials that goes beyond a traditional wayfinding and signage project, creating a connection between the building and the city that surrounds it.

Including:

40,000 hand pressed disks made from offcuts of Kvadrat felt inserted into classroom walls to create motif and help acoustics. The holes in the timber were cut by a car gasket manufacturer in Birmingham. The dot motif continued as window manifestations on offices, meeting rooms and classrooms.

Lifesize print and neon buddleia acknowleding a plant ubiquitous on the exteriors of London’s post industrial landscape

Framed art work playing on local East London themes such as old boxing posters over printed with Cockney rhyming slang in bold red type and newspaper headlines, again using Cockney rhyming slang about money, printed with the original Evening Standard headline typography.

Handmade room signs constructed of leftover flooring and scrap timber that are stencilled and strapped with steel to represent the cooperage heritage of the building. Each sign sets out the floor level, zone and room number.

A coffee and tea van with an illustrated window display by Barcelona-based artist Gabriel Corbera, in the style of pizza box.

Exterior blade signs constructed from London Underground style vitreous enamel and in Piccadilly line blue