Totally old school

Yes, we are biased of course, we are working in design but isn’t design simply fantastic. On the same day we design and develop digital interfaces for our clients to create fantastic and relevant content for their websites and a little later in the day we go to our client ICS International Community School and supervise the signage installation for their new building. That alone is wonderful but it gets even better as this time we asked a traditional signwriter Wayne Osborne to compliment the newly installed signs with some beautiful hand painted signs. How manual and none-digital is that. Wayne is as amazing as he looks on top of his ladder. The harmony he can create between the signs and the building is simply amazing. Our client Ben called it the ‘perfect tension’ between the hand painted traditional elements and the more modern metal signage.

And have you seen Wayne’s traveling office? It is poetic. and each little paint pot holds hand mixed paints mixed to match your very Pantone reference – once dried. These little pots are open, no lids. Not only a steady hand when painting also when carrying the office around. There is hardly any paint in them but Wayne said there is enough in there for ten signs. He was of course right.

You can hardly see the support stick Wayne is using when painting. It has this beautiful wrapped soft end to lean against the wall and rest his hand on. So that it is long enough it has a perfect brass screw connector which makes it twice as long as the traveling office.

Absolutely brilliant.