Directories & message boards

What it is

A directory has to survive change. Tenants move, suites get subdivided, and a directory that requires a whole new panel every time someone leaves is a bad design. We build slot-in, track-based and individually replaceable systems so updating a line costs a strip, not a sign.

We have built full directories for the Jones Building, the John Olver Transit Center, Greenfield Corporate Center, 33 Riddell Street Medical Building and 20 Gatehouse Road — buildings where finding the right suite on the first attempt is most of the job. Hierarchy matters more than decoration here: building name, floor, suite, tenant, in that order, at sizes that hold up under indifferent lobby lighting.

Changeable-letter message boards are the other half of this category — the reader boards outside churches, schools, gyms and community centres. Track systems with individual letters you set yourself, weather-tight cases with locking doors, and legible typefaces that still read from a car.