External signage
The first sign a visitor sees is the one from the street. We design and deliver external signage that makes a building recognisable from traffic, from the car park and from the pedestrian approach.
We design signage Building signage systems
We design, produce and install external and internal signage systems for shopping centres, hotels, offices and public buildings. From the first sign at the approach to the number on the door.
40 buildings
454 delivered signs on record
2018. working since
Buildings we have worked on
What we do
The whole way from analysis to an installed sign
We do not produce individual signs to order. We deliver a system: circulation analysis, signage design, a graphic standards manual, shop drawings, supervised production and on-site installation.
Internal signage
Inside, a decision is made every few steps. We build a sign system that takes a visitor from the entrance to their destination without hesitation, and covers every room — from the conference hall to the plant room.
Digital signage
Where content changes more often than boards can be replaced, the sign becomes a screen. We deliver passive, active and interactive communication — from digital totems to info-touch points.
Graphic standards manual
The document that protects the building's appearance after we leave. It prescribes how the logotype is applied to every type of sign, so that later additions look as if they were made on the same day as the first one.
Evacuation plans
A mandatory element of every public space, and the one sign that must be understood by a person seeing it for the first time, in a situation that leaves no time to study it.
Production and installation
A drawing is worth as much as the sign that comes out of it. We produce shop drawings, select fabricators by technique and material, and supervise production and installation on site.
How we work
Six steps to a system that works
01
Site walk and analysis
We walk the building along the visitor's route and record every point where a direction is chosen.
02
Signage design
Sign placement, the content of every board and the numbering logic, by storey and zone.
03
Standards manual
The rules by which every future sign is made the same way as the first.
04
Shop drawings
Dimensions, sections, materials and fixings for each sign type.
05
Supervised production
Fabricator selection by technique, sample and shade control before series.
06
Installation and handover
Installation to plan and an as-built schedule of signs by room.
40
buildings signed
454
photographs of delivered work
6
services in one chain
8
years of practice
Where we work
Every building type has its own logic
Shopping centres
A shopper who cannot find a unit does not come back to try again. In a shopping centre, signage is part…
8 projects
Hotels
A guest arrives tired and carrying luggage. Between reception and the room there must be no point where…
10 projects
Office buildings
An office building receives first-time visitors and staff who spend years there. The system has to work…
7 projects
Residential developments
In a multi-block development a visitor is looking for a specific entrance, not a building. Signage…
13 projects
Healthcare facilities
Here it is not a shopper finding their way but a patient, often under stress and against an appointment…
2 projects
Industrial and logistics buildings
In a hall, signage is not a service to a guest but a safety measure. Pedestrians and forklifts share the…
Education buildings
A school has two audiences: those who spend years there and those entering for the first time. The…
Sports and leisure venues
A building half empty most of the time and packed a few times a month. Wayfinding is designed for the…
Hospitality venues
For a restaurant or a bar the sign does two jobs at once: it says who you are and it brings a guest in…
Banks and institutions
A branch network needs the same solution on a hundred different façades. The job is not one sign but a…
Projects
Buildings people move through every day
TC Galerija
A complete shopping centre signage system, from external totems and the car park to maps, tenant directories…
Ada Mall
Internal shopping centre signage: info totems, directional signs and pictograms across all levels.
Skyline Belgrade / AFI Tower
Signage for a mixed-use development: office tower tenants, floor and lift signs, illuminated apartment…
Kula Belgrade / St. Regis
Signage for the hotel and residential parts of the tower: bronze room and apartment numbers carrying the…
TC Promenada
External and internal signage, with illuminated façade markings, suspended directional signs and an…
Hilton
Hotel signage to brand standard: illuminated entrance markings, glass films and internal amenity signage.
Why CDA
The difference is that we do not stop at the drawing
A system, not a single sign
Signs are designed as one whole, with one typeface, one grid and one numbering logic, so the building reads as a single system.
Supervision down to the last hole
Shop drawings are ours, fabricators are chosen by technique, and we follow production and installation through to handover.
Permit documentation
For external signage we prepare the drawings and submissions required to obtain installation permits.
A standard that outlives us
A graphic standards manual means every later addition looks like part of the same system.
Buildings in operation
We work on buildings already in use, in phases and outside peak hours.
Experience on large buildings
Shopping centres, hotel chains, office complexes, residential estates and healthcare facilities.
CDA
We are creating a future tradition
The art of the innovative and the rational. The beauty of interiors and intuitive design.
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