Irregular Signs

A lovely Restoration project for in St saviours Wharf completed just before Christmas.
We were tasked with adding new life to a number of historic signs on three blocks of buildings. This project was about repairing and repainting rather than redesigning as the client wanted to keep the signage exactly the same as it was. It was very fun trying to redraw and recreate the letterforms that were there before.
Help on the brushes as ever, from
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THE BLITZ
We got the absolute pleasure of spending a couple of months painting signs for the beautiful sets of WW2 era London for the Apple film production of The Blitz. The job was such a lovely mix of different skills and just sheer scale, From painting naive paper signs on the set of a bunker in London, to painting a huge ghost sign in Chatham (which was then set on fire!!?), to painting Thirty-something beautifully ornate shopfronts in Hull and everything in-between.
All painted with my fellow signwriter .warner.signpainter and with the occasional help of the wider sign gang at times. We also met so many other amazing painters and scenics including the talented sign painter as well as the masterful designs and concepts created by the graphic designers and the rest of the art department!
This was truly one of the most fun (and at times stressful!!) jobs we have taken on, I felt like we doubled our painting speed over this job to keep up with the output, The set pictured here was shot in an arcade in hull, and featured the aforementioned thirtysomething fascias we painted.

Production Designer: Adam stockhousen
Supervising Art Director: Oli Van Der Vijver
HOD Scenic Painter: Clare Holland
Head Graphic Designers: Erica Dorn & Jools Faers
Assistant signwriters:
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A nice classic gilded house number painted in town.
I love adding house numbers like this to people’s homes as it is the first thing they will see every day when they come home, and adds a certain identity to the house. I would imagine it brings the same satisfaction as seeing the name of your business painted on its premises!
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THE NEVERS
Some signs that .warner.signpainter and I painted for the boatyard set on ‘The Nevers’ with help from and
This was a particularly fun set to paint as it was all quite rough-and-ready and we were working alongside a lovely bunch of Scenic painters including and also

Lead Graphic designer: Sarah Pasquali
Lead Graphic designer: Kellie Waugh
Assistant Graphic designer: Jules Gawlik
Art Director: Gemma Jackson
Set decorator: Tina Jones