Bespoke Signwriting

This was an interesting task - and will be part of a much larger project. The original sign once stood on the Metropolitan Railway’s goods depot in Vine Street, East London. The sizes and lettering where firstly guessed from a photo of the original, counting bricks as an indicator of overall sizes. Then it was sketched out onto a piece of card. For the G, D O’s and the S, I cheated slightly in that I drew these out using AutoCAD and then laser-cut a stencil in thin card which I used to draw around. Final tweaking of the white lettering and black shading took a while but it was worth it in the end. The overall sign was weatherd quite heavily to dull down the severity of the red, white and black, and also to represent the effect of the smog-laden Edwardina atmosphere of the time.