ACHTUNG MATEYS!

Soooooo, after a long and overdue re-think, I've finally abandoned the company name Sign Flu. As I do with most of my own jokes, I found it very funny, but the whole Swine Flu thing was only in the news for a little while back in 2009, and the longer it hasn't been in the news, the less likely people have been able to make any kind of connection.  Plus, just having the word 'Flu' in your company name it pretty gross. Probably should've realised that a long while back.  I knew it was time to change when somebody enquired about effective flu treatments. So now I'm just Dapper Signs, plain and simple.  Doing the same stuff, hand building and painting signs and making businesses look prettier, one sign at a time.

You can find me at www.dappersigns.co.uk, which is where I'll post all future work up at.  

Hope to see you there! Actually, that will be quite tricky in the interweb world, but you know what I mean.

Glandyfi Castle...

Here's the pounce pattern - a pencil drawing, with the edges perforated with a star - or pounce - wheel.  The pounce pattern is then put in place on to the prepared sign board...

...and then chalk is rubbed over, leaving a faint outline that can be wiped off after the paint is dried.

Glandyfi Castle roughs...

I was asked to make two small signs for a client's beautiful guest house/impenetrable castle in west Wales for either side of the gate entrance.  After discussing what it was she wanted, I sketched out a few roughs to try and whittle down exactly what it was she wanted me to make.  

After a couple of days, she decided on the rough below, and after deciding on a colour scheme, I got started....

Tit at home...

Recently made this for a mate - he gave it to his old man for his birthday, who in turn gave him a pic of the new tenant less than a week after he put it up.

Pavement sign for Patisserie Leila, Stokes Croft

The Lido Kitchen

New Tapas bar/lido/boozer/seaside recreational spot down in Portishead, right on the water (a really lovely spot) on a freakishly beautiful sunny day, meant that my Irish complexion not only went VERY red, but my eyes nearly went VERY blind from the glare of the white wall and the fact that I forgot my sunnies. 

www.thelidokitchen.co.uk

Max C London

Pavement sign for a fashion shop in, er, Bristol

www.maxclondon.co.uk